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  title info:
    title: Narrowing the nation's power
    sub title: the Supreme Court sides with the states
  name:
    name part: Noonan, John T. (John Thomas)
    name part: 1926-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: NetLibrary, Inc
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2002
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: remote
    extent: ix, 203 pages ; 21 cm.
  abstract: Narrowing the nation's power is the tale of how a cohesive majority of the Supreme Court has, in the last six years, cut back the power of Congress and enhanced the autonomy of the fifty states. The immunity from suit of the sovereign, Blackstone taught, is necessary to preserve the people's idea that the sovereign is "a superior being." Promoting the common law doctrine of sovereign immunity to constitutional status, the current Supreme Court has used it to shield the states from damages for age discrimination, disability discrimination, and the violation of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and fair labor standards. Not just the states themselves, but every state-sponsored entity--a state insurance scheme, a state university's research lab, the Idaho Potato Commission--has been insulated from paying damages in tort or contract. Sovereign immunity, as Noonan puts it, has metastasized. "It only hurts when you think about it," Noonan's Yalewoman remarks. Noonan is a passionate believer in the place of persons in the law. Rules, he claims, are a necessary framework, but they must not obscure law's task of giving justice to persons.
  table of contents: Prologue: A recurrent struggle is resumed -- The Battle of Boerne -- Superior beings -- Votaries -- The sovereign publisher and the last of the menu girls -- Perhaps inconsequential problems -- Gang rape at State U. -- Sovereign remedy.
  note: John T. Noonan, Jr.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2004. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-193) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Government liability
    geographic: United States
    topic: States
  subject:
    topic: State governments
    geographic: United States
    topic: Privileges and immunities
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Supreme Court.
  classification: KF1322 .N66 2002eb
  classification: 342.73/088
  related item:
    identifier: (DLC) 2002019473
    identifier: (OCoLC)49276903
  identifier: 1417508388 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: https://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
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    location:
      url: https://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 040602
    record change date: 20220105142302.0
    record identifier: in00002040110