Fighting foreclosure : the Blaisdell case, the contract clause, and the Great Depression / John A. Fliter and Derek S. Hoff.
2012
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Author
Title
Fighting foreclosure : the Blaisdell case, the contract clause, and the Great Depression / John A. Fliter and Derek S. Hoff.
Published
Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, [2012]
Copyright
©2012
Call Number
KF228.B575 F55 2012
ISBN
9780700618712 (cloth : alk. paper)
0700618716 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780700618729 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0700618724 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0700618716 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780700618729 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0700618724 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Description
x, 222 pages ; 23 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)788282609
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Purchased from the income of the Edith L. Fisch Fund
Added Author
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Edith L. Fisch Fund
Table of Contents
Editors' Preface
vii
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
1
1.
Origins of the Contract Clause
9
2.
The Supreme Court and the Contract Clause Prior to Blaisdell
27
3.
"And We Don't Mean Maybe": Farmers Demand a Holiday
47
4.
Passing the Minnesota Mortgage Moratorium Act
68
5.
The Minnesota Mortgage Moratorium Act in State Court
86
6.
The Hughes Court: Four Horsemen, Three Musketeers, and Two Swingers
109
7.
The Supreme Court Decides: A "Rational Compromise between Individual Rights and Public Welfare"
123
8.
Reaction to the Blaisdell Decision
143
9.
The Death of the Contract Cause?
157
Postscript on the Great Recession's Mortgage Crisis
178
Relevant Cases
189
Chronology
193
Bibliographical Essay
197
Index
207