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The Supreme Court in the American legal system /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Segal, Jeffrey Allan
Other Authors: Spaeth, Harold J., Benesh, Sara Catherine
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
United States. > Supreme Court.
Courts > United States.
Judicial process > United States.
Online Access:Table of contents only
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Table of Contents:
  • I. Introduction
  • 1. Judicial policy making
  • Policy making
  • The mythology of judging
  • Summary and conclusions
  • 2. Approaches to judicial decision making
  • Models
  • The legal approach
  • Extralegal or policy-based approaches
  • Summary and conclusions
  • 3. The Supreme Court in American legal history
  • Before the Constitution
  • The new Constitution
  • The Marshall Court
  • The Civil War era
  • Economic regulation
  • Changes in the state courts
  • The New Deal
  • Supreme Court supervision of state courts
  • First Amendment freedoms
  • Criminal procedure
  • Equal protection
  • The right to privacy
  • The Supreme Court and the distribution of power
  • Summary and conclusions
  • II. Judicial process
  • 4. Civil procedure
  • The adversary system
  • Jurisdiction
  • Pleadings
  • Discovery
  • Trial procedure
  • Multiparty and multiclaim litigation
  • Summary and conclusions
  • 5. Evidence
  • The genesis of evidence law
  • Relevance
  • Hearsay
  • Circumstantial evidence
  • Constitutional provisions impacting the production of evidence
  • Privileges
  • Expert testimony
  • Eyewitness testimony
  • Summary and conclusions
  • 6. Criminal procedure
  • Crime
  • Prearrest investigations
  • From arrest to trial
  • Trial
  • Appeals
  • Conclusions
  • III. Lower courts in the American legal system
  • 7. State courts
  • The state courts
  • The selection of state court judges
  • Accessing state courts
  • Caseload
  • State court decision making
  • Summary and conclusions
  • 8. The U.S. district courts
  • Origins
  • Growth
  • Appointment process
  • Jurisdiction
  • Caseload
  • Procedures
  • Decision making
  • Conclusion
  • 9. The U.S. Courts of Appeals
  • Origins
  • Growth
  • Appointment process
  • Jurisdiction
  • Caseload
  • Procedures
  • Decision making
  • Conclusion
  • IV. The Supreme Court
  • 10. Staffing the Court
  • Presidential selection
  • Senate confirmation
  • Summary and conclusions
  • 11. Getting into Court
  • Case selection
  • The Supreme Court's caseload
  • Which cases for decision?
  • Future changes?
  • Summary and conclusions
  • 12. Supreme Court decision making
  • Process
  • The (final) vote on the merits : legal approaches
  • The decision on the merits : extralegal approaches
  • Conclusions
  • 13. Opinions and assignments
  • Voting and opinion options
  • Opinion assignment
  • Opinion assignments and opinion coalitions
  • The politics of coalition formation
  • Who influences whom?
  • Summary and conclusions
  • V. Impact
  • 14. The impact of judicial decisions
  • The impact of courts in America
  • A framework for understanding impact
  • Compliance
  • Impact
  • The courts and public opinion
  • Summary and conclusions.