Federal Courts Stories
by Jackson, Vicki C.; Resnik, JudithEdition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-10-05
Publisher(s): Foundation Press
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Summary
Touching on history, economics, politics, and law, these stories steal behind the texts of the legal opinions into the larger-than-life personalities and struggles of their antagonists and protagonists. This title is an invaluable supplement to any federal courts casebook.
Table of Contents
| Introduction: The Idea of a Jurisprudence, a Course, and a Canon: Introducing Federal Courts Stories | p. 1 |
| The Courts, the Congress, and the Executive | |
| The Story of Marbury V. Madison: Judicial Authority and Political Struggle | p. 29 |
| The Story of Ex parte McCardle: The Power of Congress to Limit the Supreme Court's Appellate Jurisdiction | p. 57 |
| The Story of Klein: The Scope of Congress's Authority to Shape the Jurisdiction of the Federal Courts | p. 87 |
| Federal and State Courts: Exclusivity, Concurrency, Reciprocity | |
| The Story of Michigan V. Long: Supreme Court Review and the Workings of American Federalism | p. 115 |
| The Story of Tarble's Case: State Habeas and Federal Detention | p. 141 |
| Riding the Color Line: The Story of Railroad Commission of Texas V. Pullman Co | p. 163 |
| Courts, Liberty, and Habeas Corpus: Sequential Decisionmaking Reviewing State Court Convictions | |
| The Story of Fay V. Noia: Another Case About Another Federalism | p. 191 |
| Challenging Executive Authority | |
| "Not a Happy Precedent": The Story of Ex parte Quirin | p. 219 |
| Government Accountability | |
| The Story of Ex parte Young: Once Controversial, Now Canon | p. 247 |
| The Story of Bivens V. Six Unknown Named Agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics | p. 275 |
| The Story of Santa Clara Pueblo V. Martinez: Tribal Sovereignty, Sex Equality, and the Federal Courts | p. 301 |
| Sovereignties-Federal, State and Tribal: The Story of Seminole Tribe of Florida V. Florida | p. 329 |
| Federal Common Law, the Administrative State, and the International Community | |
| The Story of Crowell: Grounding the Administrative State | p. 359 |
| The Story of Lincoln Mills: Jurisdiction and the Source of Law | p. 389 |
| The Story of Banco Nacional de Cuba V. Sabbatino: Federal Judicial Power in Foreign Relations Cases | p. 415 |
| Biographies of Contributors | p. 445 |
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