Tag: Court

Free Download Morgan L. W. Hazelton, "Persuading the Supreme Court: The Significance of Briefs in Judicial Decision-Making"
English | ISBN: 0700633634 | 2022 | 296 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Each year the public, media, and government wait in anticipation for the Supreme Court to announce major decisions. These opinions have shaped legal policy in areas as important as healthcare, marriage, abortion, and immigration. It is not surprising that parties and outside individuals and interest groups invest an estimated $25 million to $50 million a year to produce roughly one thousand amicus briefs to communicate information to the justices, seeking to impact these rulings. Despite the importance of the Court and the information it receives, many questions remain unanswered regarding the production of such information and its relationship to the Court’s decisions.

Free Download Bennett Capers, "Critical Race Judgments: Rewritten U.S. Court Opinions on Race and the Law"
English | ISBN: 1107164524 | 2022 | 600 pages | PDF | 3 MB
By re-writing US Supreme Court opinions that implicate critical dimensions of racial justice, Critical Race Judgments demonstrates that it’s possible to be judge and a critical race theorist. Specific issues covered in these cases include the death penalty, employment, voting, policing, education, the environment, justice, housing, immigration, sexual orientation, segregation, and mass incarceration. While some rewritten cases – Plessy v. Ferguson (which constitutionalized Jim Crow) and Korematsu v. United States (which constitutionalized internment) – originally focused on race, many of the rewritten opinions – Lawrence v. Texas (which constitutionalized sodomy laws) and Roe v. Wade (which constitutionalized a woman’s right to choose) – are used to incorporate racial justice principles in novel and important ways. This work is essential for everyone who needs to understand why critical race theory must be deployed in constitutional law to uphold and advance racial justice principles that are foundational to US democracy.

Free Download The Handy Supreme Court Answer Book
by Hudson, David L.;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1578598230 | 449 pages | True PDF | 40.55 MB

Free Download Katherine H. Terrell, "Scripting the Nation: Court Poetry and the Authority of History in Late Medieval Scotland "
English | ISBN: 0814214622 | 2021 | 234 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Scripting the Nation is the first book to set the poets of Scottish King James IV’s court-William Dunbar, Walter Kennedy, and Gavin Douglas-in an extended dialogue with Latin and vernacular traditions of historiography. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, Latin chroniclers such as John of Fordun and Walter Bower argued for their nation’s status, using genealogically based myths of origin that linked Scotland to ancient centers of power. As vernacular histories grew more Anglophobic and quarrels rooted in the past continued to influence Anglo-Scottish diplomacy, Dunbar, Kennedy, and Douglas took up a national discourse that responded to English myths and an English poetic tradition exemplified by Geoffrey Chaucer. Terrell’s elegant study examines how these Scottish writers marked out a distinct realm of Scottish cultural and poetic achievement, appropriating and subverting English literary models in ways that reveal the interplay between literary and historical authority in the scripting of nationhood.

Free Download Laura Kalman, "FDR’s Gambit: The Court Packing Fight and the Rise of Legal Liberalism"
English | ISBN: 0197539297 | 2022 | 440 pages | EPUB, PDF | 59 MB + 60 MB
A comprehensive, engaging, and revisionist account of the Court fight that ties it to contemporary policy debates.

Free Download The Case Against the Supreme Court (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BRQPV1SY | 2023 | 14 hours and 11 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 412 MB
Author: Erwin Chemerinsky
Narrator: Philip Hernandez
Both historically and in the present, the Supreme Court has largely been a failure. In this devastating book, Erwin Chemerinsky-"one of the shining lights of legal academia" (The New York Times)-shows how, case by case, for over two centuries, the hallowed Court has been far more likely to uphold government abuses of power than to stop them. Drawing on a wealth of rulings, some famous, others little known, he reviews the Supreme Court’s historic failures in key areas, including the refusal to protect minorities, the upholding of gender discrimination, and the neglect of the Constitution in times of crisis, from World War I through 9/11. No one is better suited to make this case than Chemerinsky. He has studied, taught, and practiced constitutional law for thirty years and has argued before the Supreme Court. With passion and eloquence, Chemerinsky advocates reforms that could make the system work better, and he challenges us to think more critically about the nature of the Court and the fallible men and women who sit on it.

Free Download Court Martial by Sven Hassel
English | MP3@192 kbps | 11h 24m | 939.7 MB
The Legionnaire swings the MG-muzzle. The smoke eats its way into the officers’ stomachs. They drop to the snow-covered ground, coloring it red. Bestial shrieks sound from the woods as a wave of fur clad soldiers storm out. They are near the Finish-Russian frontline. The machine guns snarl till the magazines are emptied. Old Man’s platoon, with Tiny the giant and Porta in the lead, fights a rough battle behind Russian lines.Sven Hassel was sent to a penal battalion as a private in the German forces. Intensely and with brutal realism, he portrays the cruelty of the war, the Nazi crimes and the crude and cynical humor of the soldiers. With more than 50 million sold copies, this is one of the world’s best selling war novels." AMAZINGLY WELL WRITTEN – HASSEL TAKES HIS ANTI-MILITARY TENDENCIES TO THE NEXT LEVEL" ARBEIDERBLADET, NORWAY