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Author
Title
The Supreme Court A to Z / Kenneth Jost.
Published
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : CQ Press, [2012]
Copyright
©2012
Call Number
KF8742.A35 S8 2012
Edition
Fifth edition.
ISBN
9781608717446 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1608717445 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1608717445 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Description
xvii, 668 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)764366013
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 617-630) and index.
Record Appears in
Gift
Purchased from the income of the Murray Fund
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Murray Fund
Table of Contents
About the Author
xiii
About this Book
xiii
Preface
xv
A.
Abortion
1
Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts
4
Affirmative Action
5
Aliens
11
Alito, Samuel A., Jr.
12
Amending Process
13
American Bar Association
15
Amicus Curiae
17
Antitrust
17
Appeal
21
Appointment and Removal Power
23
Arguments
25
Arms, Right to Bear
28
Arrests
30
Assembly, Freedom of
31
Assigning Opinions
34
Association, Freedom of
34
Attainder, Bill of
36
Attorney General
37
B.
Background of Justices
39
Bail
45
Baker v. Carr
45
Baldwin, Henry
46
Barbour, Philip P.
47
Bar of the Supreme Court
47
Bill of Rights
49
Black, Hugo L.
51
Blackmun, Harry A.
52
Blair, John, Jr.
54
Blatchford, Samuel
54
Bradley, Joseph P.
55
Brandeis, Louis D.
56
Brennan, William J., Jr.
57
Brewer, David J.
58
Breyer, Stephen G.
59
Brief
60
Brown, Henry B.
61
Brown v. Board of Education
62
Burger, Warren E.
64
Burton, Harold H.
65
Bush v. Gore
66
Busing
68
Butler, Pierce
69
Byrnes, James F.
69
C.
Calhoun, John C.
71
Campaigns and Elections
72
Campbell, John A.
75
Capital Punishment
76
Cardozo, Benjamin N.
79
Case Law
80
Case or Controversy Rule
81
Catron, John
81
Certiorari
82
Chase, Salmon P.
83
Chase, Samuel
84
Chief Justice
85
Child Labor
90
Circuit Riding
92
Citizenship
93
Civil Liberties
95
Civil Rights
96
Civil War Amendments
101
Clark, Tom C.
103
Clarke, John H.
104
Class Action
104
Clay, Henry
105
Clerk of the Court
106
Clerks
107
Clifford, Nathan
109
Comity
110
Commerce Power
111
Common Law
118
Communism
118
Concurring Opinions
120
Conferences
120
Confessions
122
Confirmation Process
124
Congress and the Court
128
Congressional Immunity
134
Constitutional Law
135
Contempt of Court
140
Contract Clause
141
Cost of Supreme Court
144
Counsel, Right to Legal
145
Counselor to the Chief Justice
147
Courts, Lower
147
Courts, Powers of
149
Criminal Law and Procedure
154
Cruel and Unusual Punishment
160
Curator's Office
163
Currency Powers
163
Curtis, Benjamin R.
164
Cushing, William
165
D.
Daniel, Peter V.
166
Davis, David
167
Davis, John W.
167
Day, William R.
168
Decision Days
169
De Facto, De Jure
170
Defendant
170
Disability Rights
171
Discrimination
173
Dissenting Opinions
174
Diversity Jurisdiction
175
Docket
176
Double Jeopardy
177
Douglas, William O.
178
Due Process
179
Duvall, Gabriel
181
E.
Education and the Court
183
Elections and the Court
185
Electronic Surveillance
188
Ellsworth, Oliver
189
Equal Protection
190
Exclusionary Rule
192
Executive Privilege and Immunity
194
Ex Parte
196
Ex Post Facto
196
Extrajudicial Activities
197
F.
Federalism
200
Federal Judicial Center
202
Felony
202
Field, Stephen J.
202
Flag Salute Cases
204
Foreign Affairs
205
Fortas, Abe
207
Frankfurter, Felix
209
Fuller, Melville W.
210
G.
Garland, Augustus H.
212
Gay Rights
213
Gibbons v. Ogden
215
Gideon v. Wainwright
216
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader
217
Goldberg, Arthur J.
218
Grand Jury
219
Gray, Horace
220
Grier, Robert C.
220
H.
Habeas Corpus
222
Hamilton, Alexander
225
Harlan, John Marshall (1833-1911)
226
Harlan, John Marshall (1899-1971)
227
Historical Society, Supreme Court
228
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.
228
Housing the Court
229
Hughes, Charles Evans
232
Hunt, Ward
234
I.
Impeachment
235
Impeachment of Justices
237
Income Tax
239
Incorporation Doctrine
241
Indictment
244
In Forma Pauperis
245
Injunction
245
Intellectual Property
246
International Law
248
Internet
253
Internment Cases
254
Iredell, James
256
J.
Jackson, Andrew
257
Jackson, Howell E.
258
Jackson, Robert H.
258
Jay, John
260
Jefferson, Thomas
260
Job Discrimination
261
Johnson, Thomas
264
Johnson, William
264
Judgment of the Court
265
Judicial Activism
265
Judicial Conference of the United States
267
Judicial Restraint
268
Judicial Review
270
Juries
275
Jurisdiction
279
Justiciability
280
K.
Kagan, Elena
281
Kennedy, Anthony M.
283
L.
Lamar, Joseph R.
285
Lamar, Lucius Q. C.
286
Legal Office of the Court
287
Legal System in America
287
Legal Tender Cases
292
Legislative Veto
293
Libel
294
Library of the Court
296
Lincoln, Abraham
296
Livingston, H. Brockholst
298
Loyalty Oaths
299
Lurton, Horace H.
300
M.
Majority Opinion
302
Mandamus
302
Mandatory Jurisdiction
303
Marbury v. Madison
304
Marshal of the Court
305
Marshall, John
306
Marshall, Thurgood
307
Matthews, Stanley
308
McCulloch v. Maryland
309
McKenna, Joseph
310
McKinley, John
311
McLean, John
312
McReynolds, James C.
312
Media and the Court
313
Merits, On the
317
Miller, Samuel F.
317
Minton, Sherman
317
Miranda v. Arizona
318
Misdemeanor
319
Moody, William H.
320
Moore, Alfred
321
Mootness
322
Murphy, Frank
322
N.
Nelson, Samuel
324
New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
325
Nixon, Richard
326
Nomination to the Court
328
O.
Oaths of Office
331
Obiter Dictum
332
Obscenity and Indecency
333
O'Connor, Sandra Day
335
Official Immunity
336
Open Housing
338
Operations of the Court
340
Opinions
345
Original Intent
347
Original Jurisdiction
348
P.
Pardons
350
Parochial Schools, Aid to
351
Paterson, William
353
Pay and Perquisites
354
Peckham, Rufus W.
356
Pentagon Papers Case
357
Per Curiam Opinion
358
Personal Papers
358
Petition, Right of
360
Petitioner
360
Pitney, Mahlon
360
Plaintiff
361
Plea Bargaining
362
Plessy v. Ferguson
363
Plurality Opinion
364
Police Power
365
Political Question
366
Politics and the Court
368
Powell, Lewis E., Jr.
371
Precedent
372
Preemption
373
The President and the Court
376
Press, Freedom of
383
Prima Facie
389
Privacy, Right of
389
Probable Cause
392
Property Rights
392
Public Accommodations
395
Public Information Office
397
Public Opinion and the Court
398
R.
Ratings of Justices
402
Reagan, Ronald
403
Reapportionment and Redistricting
405
Reed, Stanley F.
410
Rehnquist, William H.
411
Religion, Freedom of
413
Remand
419
Removal of Cases
419
Reporter of Decisions
420
Resignation
421
Respondent
422
Retirement
422
Reversals of Earlier Rulings
424
Reversals of Rulings by Constitutional Amendment
429
Reversals of Rulings by Legislation
430
Ripeness
434
Roberts, John G., Jr.
434
Roberts, Owen J.
436
Roe v. Wade
437
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
438
Rutledge, John
440
Rutledge, Wiley B.
441
S.
Sanford, Edward T.
443
Scalia, Antonin
444
Schedule of Arguments and Conferences
445
School Desegregation
447
School Prayer
450
Scottsboro Cases
453
Scott v. Sandford
454
Seal of the Supreme Court
455
Search and Seizure
455
Sedition Laws
459
Segregation
461
Selective Service Rulings
464
Self-Incrimination
464
Seniority
466
Sentencing Guidelines
467
Separation of Powers
468
Severability
475
Sex Discrimination
475
Shiras, George, Jr.
479
Size of the Court
480
Slaughterhouse Cases
481
Slavery and the Court
482
Solicitor General
485
Sotomayor, Sonia
488
Souter, David H.
490
Speech, Commercial
491
Speech, Freedom of
493
Speedy Trial, Right to
501
Spending Powers
502
Standing to Sue
503
Stare Decisis
504
States and the Court
505
Stevens, John Paul
511
Stewart, Potter
512
Stone, Harlan Fiske
513
Story, Joseph
514
Strict Construction
515
Strong, William
516
Subpoena
517
Summary Judgment
518
Supremacy Clause
518
Supreme Court Building
519
Sutherland, George
522
Swayne, Noah H.
523
T.
Taft, William Howard
524
Taney, Roger B.
525
Taxing Power
526
Temporary Restraining Order
531
Term Limits
531
Term of the Court
533
Test Case
534
Thomas, Clarence
534
Thompson, Smith
536
Three-Judge Court
537
Todd, Thomas
537
Tort Law
538
Traditions of the Court
540
Travel, Right to
541
Treaty Power
543
Trials
544
Trimble, Robert
548
U.
Unconstitutional Statutes
550
United States Reports
558
V.
Vacancy
559
Vacate
560
Van Devanter, Willis
560
Veto Power
561
Vinson, Frederick M.
563
Voting Rights
564
W.
Waite, Morrison R.
568
War Powers
569
Warren, Earl
572
Washington, Bushrod
573
Wayne, James M.
574
Webster, Daniel
575
White, Byron R.
576
White, Edward D.
576
Whittaker, Charles E.
577
Wilson, James
578
Woodbury, Levi
579
Woods, William B.
580
Workload of the Court
580
Writing Opinions
583
Y.
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer
585
Z.
Zoning
587
REFERENCE MATERIAL
Historic Milestones of the Court
591
Supreme Court Nominations, 1789-2011
594
Seat Chart of the Justices
599
Constitution of the United States
602
Online Sources of Decisions
615
Selected Bibliography
617
Index
631