From Trial Court to the United States Supreme Court: Anatomy of a Free Speech Case: The Incredible Inside Story Behind the Theft of the St. Patrick's
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (523 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0828320128 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 630 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Comprehensive and Informative A Customer By far, this book tops all others on how our courts operate. The authors have given a detailed look at the legal system at every level, state and federal, and cover so much territory in so short a space that the book borders on being overwhelming. This is the definitive book on "process". Using rich citation to trial transcripts the auth. "Well-writen First Amendment primer." according to A Customer. As an attorney, what I found most interesting about this book was the use of trial transcripts to help frame the debate on the larger First Amendment constitutional issues. The authors did a superb job of telling a complex story from beginning to end. I would recommend some of my old professors take a close look at this work, and conside. A Customer said Book reviews. "Riveting" National Law Journal;"Compelling well-written" Bimonthly Review of Law Books;"Tremendously engaging" AOB News; "One of the most informativbe law books I have read" Journal of the Indiana Bar Assoc.; "Chilling, troubling, Kafkaesque" Prof. Charles E. Rounds Jr., Suffolk Law School
Photos. to define their own speech in their own parades." Connolly, a Boston lawyer, and Walkowski (The Will of God) have written an extremely intricate and legalistic book that will be of interest mostly to the legal community. That decision was subsequently upheld on appeal and not overturned until the time of the 1995 parade, when a Federal District judge ruled that the veterans group could bar members of GLIB. When their petition was rejected, a member of GLIB filed a lawsuit claiming the violation of his rights under the First Amendment. From Publishers Weekly In early 1992, the Irish-American Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Group
When the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the decision of the trial court that the Allied War Veterans Council's traditional parade, replete with Irish flags, shamrocks, bag-pipe bands, pro-life, POW, political, religious and cultural message, was not expressive enough to be protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, and because of this, could not exclude a group with an antithetical, non-traditional message from participating, the stage was set for a historic constitutional confrontation. In this important book on how the dismantling of the First Amendment occurred, the authors chronicle the social and legal arguments from trial court all the way to the United States Supreme Court, offering the reader a rare glimpse into how a legal controversy makes its way to the nation's highest court against a network of biased court judges, politically correct law firms, a state anti-discrimination agency, academe, and a timid municipal administration.. Patrick's Day Parade could ban, without violating the state's public accommodation law, a gay activist group from marching behind a banner proclaiming its homosexual orientation. After three years of legal wrangling, the state's highest court was about to speak to the question of whether sponsors of a tradit