No day in court : access to justice and the politics of judicial retrenchment /
While the majority of the landmark laws and legal precedents expanding access to justice in the United States remain intact, less than 2 percent of civil cases are decided by a trial today. What explains this phenomenon, and why it is so difficult to get one's day in court? This book examines t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Oxford studies in postwar American political development.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | While the majority of the landmark laws and legal precedents expanding access to justice in the United States remain intact, less than 2 percent of civil cases are decided by a trial today. What explains this phenomenon, and why it is so difficult to get one's day in court? This book examines the sustained efforts of political and legal actors to scale back access to the courts in the decades since it was expanded, largely in the service of the rights revolution of the 1950s and 60s. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190221713 0190221712 9780199399055 0199399050 |