The Supreme Court A to Z

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CQ Press, 14.03.2012 - 688 Seiten

The Supreme Court A to Z offers accessible information about the Supreme Court, including its history, traditions, organization, dynamics, and personalities. The entries in The Supreme Court A to Z are arranged alphabetically and are extensively cross-referenced to related information. This volume also has a detailed index, reference materials on Supreme Court nominations, a seat chart of the justices, the U.S. Constitution, online sources of decisions, and a bibliography to help simplify research.

The fifth edition of The Supreme Court A to Z has been thoroughly updated to incorporate coverage of significant new cases and recent changes on the bench and includes more than 350 alphabetized entries. Presented in an engaging reader-friendly design, this edition includes:

  • Biographies of recently appointed Associate Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, plus revised biographies for recently retired Associate Justices David Souter and John Paul Stevens
  • Updated entries on key issues and concepts, including abortion, campaigns and elections, civil rights, class action, due process, freedom of the press, reapportionment and redistricting, school desegregation, and war powers
  • A new entry on media and the Court, which highlights the Court′s online presence
  • New feature boxes on 2011 decisions
  • Updated seat charts of the justices, online sources for finding decisions, and a selected bibliography
  • An appendix with historic milestones of the Court

The Supreme Court A to Z is part of CQ Press’s five-volume American Government A to Z series. The series is useful to anyone who has an interest in national government and politics.

 

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About the Author
Preface
Abortion
Administrative Office of the US Courts
Affirmative Action
Aliens
Alito Samuel A Jr
Amending Process
Loyalty Oaths
Lurton Horace H
Majority Opinion
Mandatory Jurisdiction
Marbury v Madison
Marshal of the Court
Marshall John
Marshall Thurgood

American Bar Association
Amicus Curiae
Appeal
Appointment and Removal Power
Arguments
Arms Right to Bear
Arrests
Assembly Freedom of
Assigning Opinions
Attainder Bill of
Attorney General
Background of Justices
Bail
Baldwin Henry
Barbour Philip P
Bill of Rights
Black Hugo L
Blackmun Harry A
Blair John Jr
Bradley Joseph P
Brandeis Louis D
Brennan William J Jr
Brewer David J
Breyer Stephen G
Brief
Brown Henry B
Brown v Board of Education
Burger Warren E
Burton Harold H
Bush v Gore
Busing
Butler Pierce
Calhoun John C
Campaigns and Elections
Campbell John A
Capital Punishment
Cardozo Benjamin N
Case Law
Case or Controversy Rule
Certiorari
Chase Salmon P
Chase Samuel
Chief Justice
Child Labor
Circuit Riding
Citizenship
Civil Liberties
Civil Rights
Civil War Amendments
Clark Tom C
Clarke John H
Clay Henry
Clerk of the Court
Clerks
Clifford Nathan
Comity
Commerce Power
Common Law
Concurring Opinions
Confessions
Confirmation Process
Congress and the Court
Congressional Immunity
Constitutional Law
Contempt of Court
Contract Clause
Cost of Supreme Court
Counsel Right to Legal
Counselor to the Chief Justice
Courts Powers of
Criminal Law and Procedure
Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Curators Office
Curtis Benjamin R
Cushing William
Daniel Peter V
Davis David
Day William R
Decision Days
De Facto De Jure
Disability Rights
Discrimination
Dissenting Opinions
Diversity Jurisdiction
Docket
Double Jeopardy
Douglas William O
Due Process
Duvall Gabriel
Education and the Court
Elections and the Court
Electronic Surveillance
Ellsworth Oliver
Equal Protection
Exclusionary Rule
Executive Privilege and Immunity
Ex Parte
Extrajudicial Activities
Federalism
Federal Judicial Center
Flag Salute Cases
Foreign Affairs
Fortas Abe
Frankfurter Felix
Fuller Melville W
Garland Augustus H
Gay Rights
Gibbons v Ogden
Gideon v Wainwright
Ginsburg Ruth Bader
Goldberg Arthur J
Grand Jury
Gray Horace
Habeas Corpus
Hamilton Alexander
Harlan John Marshall
Harlan John Marshall
Historical Society Supreme Court
Housing the Court
Hughes Charles Evans
Hunt Ward
Impeachment
Impeachment of Justices
Income Tax
Incorporation Doctrine
Indictment
In Forma Pauperis
Intellectual Property
International Law
Internet
Internment Cases
Iredell James
Jackson Andrew
Jackson Howell E
Jay John
Job Discrimination
Johnson Thomas
Judgment of the Court
Judicial Conference of the United States
Judicial Restraint
Judicial Review
Juries
Jurisdiction
Justiciability
Kagan Elena
Kennedy Anthony M
Lamar Joseph R
Lamar Lucius Q C
Legal Office of the Court
Legal Tender Cases
Legislative Veto
Libel
Library of the Court
Livingston H Brockholst
Matthews Stanley
McCulloch v Maryland
McKenna Joseph
McKinley John
McLean John
Media and the Court
Merits On the
Miranda v Arizona
Misdemeanor
Moody William H
Moore Alfred
Mootness
Nelson Samuel
New York Times Co v Sullivan
Nixon Richard
Nomination to the Court
Oaths of Office
Obiter Dictum
Obscenity and Indecency
OConnor Sandra Day
Official Immunity
Open Housing
Operations of the Court
Opinions
Original Intent
Original Jurisdiction
Pardons
Parochial Schools Aid to
Paterson William
Pay and Perquisites
Peckham Rufus W
Pentagon Papers Case
Per Curiam Opinion
Petition Right of
Plaintiff
Plea Bargaining
Plessy v Ferguson
Plurality Opinion
Police Power
Political Question
Politics and the Court
Powell Lewis F Jr
Precedent
Preemption
The President and the Court
Press Freedom of
Prima Facie
Probable Cause
Public Accommodations
Public Information Office
Public Opinion and the Court
Ratings of Justices
Reagan Ronald
Reapportionment and Redistricting
Reed Stanley F
Rehnquist William H
Religion Freedom of
Remand
Reporter of Decisions
Resignation
Respondent
Reversals of Earlier Rulings
Reversals of Rulings by Constitutional Amendment
Reversals of Rulings by Legislation
Ripeness
Roberts Owen J
Roe v Wade
Roosevelt Franklin D
Rutledge John
Rutledge Wiley B
Sanford Edward T
Scalia Antonin
Schedule of Arguments and Conferences
School Desegregation
School Prayer
Scottsboro Cases
Scott v Sandford
Seal of the Supreme Court
Sedition Laws
Segregation
Selective Service Rulings
Seniority
Sentencing Guidelines
Separation of Powers
Severability
Shiras George Jr
Size of the Court
Slaughterhouse Cases
Slavery and the Court
Solicitor General
Sotomayor Sonia
Souter David H
Speech Commercial
Speech Freedom of
Speedy Trial Right to
Spending Powers
Standing to Sue
Stare Decisis
States and the Court
Stevens John Paul
Stewart Potter
Stone Harlan Fiske
Story Joseph
Strict Construction
Strong William
Subpoena
Summary Judgment
Supreme Court Building
Sutherland George
Swayne Noah H
Taft William Howard
Taney Roger B
Taxing Power
Temporary Restraining Order
Term of the Court
Test Case
Thompson Smith
ThreeJudge Court
Tort Law
Traditions of the Court
Travel Right to
Treaty Power
Trials
Trimble Robert
Unconstitutional Statutes
United States Reports
Vacancy
Vacate
Veto Power
Vinson Frederick M
Voting Rights
Waite Morrison
War Powers
Warren Earl
Washington Bushrod
Wayne James M
Webster Daniel
White Byron R
Whittaker Charles E
Wilson James
Woodbury Levi
Woods William B
Writing Opinions
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co v Sawyer
Zoning
Reference Material
Historic Milestones of the Court
Supreme Court Nominations 17892011
Seat Chart of the Justices
Constitution of the United States
Online Sources of Decisions
Selected Bibliography
Index
Urheberrecht

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Kenneth Jost is author of Supreme Court Yearbook, Supreme Court A to Z, The New York Times on the Supreme Court, Obama′s Agenda, Trending Toward #Justice, and the blog Jost on Justice (http://jostonjustice.blogspot.com). An honors graduate of Harvard College and Georgetown Law School, Jost has covered legal affairs as a reporter, editor, and columnist for more than fifty years. He has been a contributing writer for CQ Researcher for over two decades covering a wide variety of topics. Jost was a member of the CQ Researcher teams recognized for health reporting by the Society of Professional Journalists and for legal affairs reporting by the American Bar Association. He teaches media law at Georgetown Law School.

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TitelThe Supreme Court A to Z
CQ's American government A to Z series
Autor/inKenneth Jost
Ausgabe5
VerlagCQ Press, 2012
ISBN1452234361, 9781452234366
Länge688 Seiten
  
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