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Complex Justice
In 1987 Judge Russell Clark mandated tax increases to help pay for improvements to the Kansas City, Missouri, School District in an effort to lure white students and quality teachers back to the inner-city district. Yet even after increasing employee salaries and constructing elaborate facilities at a cost of more than $2 billion, the district remained overwhelmingly segregated and student achievement remained far below national averages. Just eight years later the U.S. Supreme Court began reversing these initiatives, signifying a major retreat from Brown v. Board of Education. In Kansas City, African American families opposed to the district court's efforts organized a takeover of the schoo...
The Missouri Supreme Court
In The Missouri Supreme Court, distinguished legal historian Gerald T. Dunne captures the people and personalities, conflicts and controversies of Missouri's rich legal history. Using a lively anecdotal approach to examine the key cases and political disputes, as well as the strong-minded incumbents who have served on the court's bench, he places Missouri's judicial system in the context of the overall political and legal developments in the United States as a whole. Dunne sets the scene by presenting Missouri before it became a state, tracing the evolution of Indian, Spanish, and French legal influences until the final adoption of a legal system based on the English common law. Then, throug...
The Dred Scott Case
The Washington University Libraries presents an online exhibit of documents regarding the Dred Scott case. American slave Dred Scott (1795?-1858) and his wife Harriet filed suit for their freedom in the Saint Louis Circuit Court in 1846. The U.S. Supreme Court decided in 1857 that the Scotts must remain slaves.
Cruzan V. Missouri
After a terrible car accident, Nancy Beth Cruzan's body remained lifeless in a coma. Her parents, Joyce and Joe Cruzan, claimed that their daughter would never have wanted to live dependent on life support machinery. However, due to a Missouri state law, the Cruzans were prohibited from removing their daughter from this machinery. When the Cruzans took their case to the Supreme Court, the Court supported the constitutionality of the Missouri law, but also left the door open for the Cruzans' eventual removal of their daughter from life support.
Pretrial
This clear and concise book organizes pretrial planning into a series of steps students can easily master. Ordinary law school classes give students very few opportunities to learn about how lawyers prepare and manage cases. Pretrial introduces students to all aspects of case development, litigation, and settlement, ranging from the initial client interview to the analysis of settlement strategy and terms. It provides sample documentation for each stage of the civil case. An invaluable text for law students, Pretrial also gives new lawyers straightforward instruction as they immerse themselves in the real world of litigation practice. New to the Tenth Edition: Extensive updates to the chapte...
Cruzan v. Missouri
Documents the events and system of appeals leading to a Supreme Court decision stating there must be "clear and convincing evidence" proving an unconscious subject's wish not to preserve life through medical intervention.
