The poverty law canon : exploring the major cases /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Failinger, Marie A., Rosser, Ezra
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]
Subjects:	Legal assistance to the poor > United States > Cases. Public welfare > Law and legislation > United States > Cases. Law > Economic aspects > United States > Cases. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Ezra Rosser
When paupers became people : Edwards v. California (1941) / Clare Pastore
Remaking the "law of the poor" : Williams v. Walker-Thomas Furniture Co. (1965) / Anne Fleming
Sylvester Smith, unlikely heroine : King v. Smith (1968) / Henry Freedman
Legal services attorneys and migrant advocates join forces : Shapiro v. Thompson (1969) / Elisa Minoff
Dignity and passion : Goldberg v. Kelly (1970) / Melanie B. Abbott
Litigating in the zeitgeist : Rosado v. Wyman (1970) / Wendy A. Bach
A sweeping refusal of equal protection : Dandridge v. Williams (1970) / Julie A. Nice
Privacy as a luxury not for the poor : Wyman v. James (1971) / Michele Estrin Gilman
A tragedy of two Americas : Jefferson v. Hackney (1972) / Marie A. Failinger
Denying the poor access to court : United States v. Kras (1973) / Henry Rose
"The poor people have lost again" : San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez (1973) / Camille Walsh
Reflecting and foreshadowing : Mathews v. Eldridge (1976) / John J. Capowski
Chronicle of a debt foretold : Zablocki v. Red Hail (1978) / Tonya L. Brito, R. Kirk Anderson, and Monica Wedgewood
The movement for a right to counsel in civil cases : Turner v. Rogers (2011) / Kelly Terry
Public housing as housing of last resort : Department of Housing and Urban Development v. Rucker (2002) / Nestor M. Davidson.