Adversity & justice : a history of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Michigan / Kevin M. Ball.
2016
KF1527 .B26 2016 (Map It)
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Title
Adversity & justice : a history of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Michigan / Kevin M. Ball.
Published
Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2016]
Copyright
©2016
Call Number
KF1527 .B26 2016
ISBN
0814336078 (cloth)
9780814336076 (cloth)
0814336094 (ebook)
9780814336090 (ebook)
9780814336076 (cloth)
0814336094 (ebook)
9780814336090 (ebook)
Description
xiii, 247 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)921867584
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-237) and index.
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Adversity and justice
Gift
Purchased from the income of the Edith L. Fisch Fund
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Edith L. Fisch Fund
Table of Contents
Foreword
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
1
1.
Bankruptcy in the Nineteenth Century
11
2.
Early Days of the Bankruptcy Act, 1898--1919
21
3.
Bankruptcy Court and the Development of the American Automobile Industry, 1900--1925
39
4.
Paul King and the Making of the Modern American Bankruptcy Courts
53
5.
Bankruptcy Court in the 1940s and 1950s
71
6.
1960s and 1970s: George Brody and the End of the Administrative Era
85
7.
1978 Code: Bankruptcy Comes of Age
97
8.
Scandal Envelops the Court
105
9.
Fallout from the Scandal: The August Trial
113
10.
Chapter II and the Heyday of Business Bankruptcy in the Eastern District of Michigan
125
11.
Bankruptcy in the Northern Division
141
12.
Court in the Consumer Bankruptcy Era
155
13.
City of Detroit Bankruptcy Case
167
Appendix 1
Referees and Judges of the Court
201
Appendix 2
Places of Court
207
Notes
211
Bibliography
233
Index
239