West's Encyclopedia of American Law, Band 1Thomson/Gale, 2005 - 476 Seiten West's Encyclopedia of American Law contains a comprehensive overview of American law in 13-volumes covering historical and current terms, concepts, events, movements, cases, and persons significant to U.S law. Including 5,000 entries that range from brief definitions of legal jargon to exhaustive examinations of court-room procedure, from explanations of complex topics such as civil rights to biographies of standout attorneys, from analyses of controversial issues such as gun control to transcripts of crucial Supreme Court decisions. Each entry was written, updated, and reviewed by lawyers and professors with the layperson or beginning student in mind.The layout of this edition includes: Entries contain definition and explanatory text The 94 sidebars provide brief highlights and add informative details of some facets of main entries while the 89 In Focus pieces complement main entries with details and arguments on interesting, important, or controversial issues Two appendix volumes contain over one hundred primary documents, including: milestone Supreme Court decisions & briefs; foundations of U.S. law; civil rights laws and commentary; presidential speeches; and scholarly essaysTopics in this edition include: Abandonment Absentee voting Defamation Defense of Marriage Act of 1996 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty Internet Fraud Movie rating Patent and Tradem Roman Law Martin Van Buren And much more |
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... interests that stand opposed to a fundamental liberty interest , and has looked closely at the degree and nature of the burden on the liberty interest , before ruling on the ultimate question of constitutionality . See , e.g. , Casey ...
... interests that stand opposed to a fundamental liberty interest , and has looked closely at the degree and nature of the burden on the liberty interest , before ruling on the ultimate question of constitutionality . See , e.g. , Casey ...
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... interest of the promo- tion of morality . In Bowers , we held that a state law criminalizing sodomy as applied to homo- sexual couples did not violate substantive due process . We rejected the argument that no rational basis existed to ...
... interest of the promo- tion of morality . In Bowers , we held that a state law criminalizing sodomy as applied to homo- sexual couples did not violate substantive due process . We rejected the argument that no rational basis existed to ...
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... interest . The difficulty with the Texas Abortion Law is that , even if they pro- mote these interest , 15 they far outstrip these jus- tifications in their impact by prohibiting all all abortions except those performed " for the pur ...
... interest . The difficulty with the Texas Abortion Law is that , even if they pro- mote these interest , 15 they far outstrip these jus- tifications in their impact by prohibiting all all abortions except those performed " for the pur ...
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EDUCATION OF TOPEKA | 2 |
Memorandum Decision of the Supreme Court June 8 1953 | 33 |
Opinion of the Supreme Court May 17 1954 | 130 |
Urheberrecht | |
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