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2012 Federal Civil Rules Booklet LegalPub.com This publication contains the federal court rules and U.S. Code sections essential to federal civil litigation practice. Includes the completely revised Federal Rules of Evidence effective December 1, 2011. Contents include: --Federal Rules of Evidence (ALL NEW!)
--Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
--Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure
--Appendix of Forms
--Supplemental Rules for Admiralty or Maritime Claims & Asset Forfeiture Actions
--U.S. Code, Title 28, Chapter 85 (Jurisdiction), Chapter 87 (Venue), Chapter 89 (Removal)
--U.S. Code, Title 28, Chapter 111 (General Provisions) and 131 (Rules of Court) (selected provisions)
--Federal Civil Rules Update (summarizing recent changes to the Federal Civil Rules)
--The Constitution of the United States As amended through December 1, 2011 (Public Law No. 112-62). Handy paperback size. Newly expanded index. Full citations to source legislation and amendments. Published in December of each year just after new rule changes take effect. |
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The Nature of the Judicial Process (Annotated) (Legal Legends Series) Benjamin N. Cardozo (Annotated: Contains detailed biographical information and historical context, as well as scholarly analysis of the work, its origins, and its impact, not found in the original book.)
Justice Cardozo's classic study of law, precedent, and how judges think and decide cases. Features a new, explanatory Foreword by Andrew L. Kaufman, the Harvard law professor recognized as Cardozo's premier biographer. Active Table of Contents, linked footnotes with correct numbers, photographs, and original pagination embedded for citing—like no other digital or online version of this important work. Not just scanned and forgotten, this edition is formatted with care and accuracy, and fully introduced, now brought to a new generation of readers.
Judges don’t discover the law, they create it. Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (1870-1938) offered the world a candid and self-conscious study of how judges decide cases and the law—they are lawmakers and not just law-appliers, he knew—all drawn from his insights and experience on the bench in a way that no judge had done before. Asked the basic questions, “What is it that I do when I decide a case? To what sources of information do I appeal for guidance?,” Cardozo answered them in his rich and timeless prose, explaining the proper use of such decisional tools as logic and analogy to precedent; analysis of history and tradition; application of public policy and sociology; and even the subconscious forces that drive judges' decisions. This book has had an impact on the introspective examination of courts in a way no other book has had, and it continues to be read today by lawyers and judges, law students and scholars, historians and and philosophers—among others interested in how judges really think and the tools they employ.
Judges are people, and lawmakers, too. “The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men, do not turn aside in their course, and pass the judges by. We like to figure to ourselves the processes of justice as coldly objective and impersonal. The law, conceived of as a real existence, dwelling apart and alone, speaks, through the voices of priests and ministers, the words which they have no choice except to utter. ...It has a lofty sound; it is well and finely said; but it can never be more than partly true.” Beyond precedential cases and tradition, judges make choices, and they choose using methods of analysis and biases that ought to be examined.
Famous at the time for his trenchant and fluid opinions as a Justice on New York’s highest court (he is still studied on questions of torts, contracts, and business law) and later a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Cardozo filled the lecture hall at Yale when he finally answered the frank query into what judges do and how do they do it. The lectures became a landmark book and a source for all other studies of the ways of a judge. Presented by Professor Kaufman as part of the Legal Legends Series of Quid Pro Books, this edition is the understandable and usable rendition of a classic work on law and politics.
Andrew L. Kaufman is the author of "Cardozo" (Harvard Univ. Press, 1998) and several law review articles on the life and times of Cardozo, on legal and judicial ethics, and on constitutional law. He is the Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of Law and Vice-Dean for Academic Programming at Harvard Law School. A former law clerk to Justice Felix Frankfurter, Kaufman is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. |
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Federal Rules of Civil Procedure ("Just the Rules" Series) Judicial Conference of the United States Practicing lawyers, law students and others often need quick reference to court rules. This ebook is designed to meet that need for those who require information about the federal courts.
This ebook contains the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The rules are current, including amendments and additional rules effective December 1, 2010. The rules, plus the recent amendments and additional rules, have been taken directly from the U.S. Courts’ Federal Rulemaking website.
This ebook has been edited by Jimmy L. Verner, Jr., a practicing attorney and principal of VernerLegal.com, electronic publishers of applications and reference works for the legal profession and the public. Visit VernerLegal.com for information about our apps and other materials for iPad, iPhone/iPod, BlackBerry, WP7, Android devices and Kindle.
Note: The ebook's table of contents is hyperlinked to text. |
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The Constrained Court: Law, Politics, and the Decisions Justices Make Michael A. Bailey, Forrest Maltzman How do Supreme Court justices decide their cases? Do they follow their policy preferences? Or are they constrained by the law and by other political actors? The Constrained Court combines new theoretical insights and extensive data analysis to show that law and politics together shape the behavior of justices on the Supreme Court. Michael Bailey and Forrest Maltzman show how two types of constraints have influenced the decision making of the modern Court. First, Bailey and Maltzman document that important legal doctrines, such as respect for precedents, have influenced every justice since 1950. The authors find considerable variation in how these doctrines affect each justice, variation due in part to the differing experiences justices have brought to the bench. Second, Bailey and Maltzman show that justices are constrained by political factors. Justices are not isolated from what happens in the legislative and executive branches, and instead respond in predictable ways to changes in the preferences of Congress and the president. The Constrained Court shatters the myth that justices are unconstrained actors who pursue their personal policy preferences at all costs. By showing how law and politics interact in the construction of American law, this book sheds new light on the unique role that the Supreme Court plays in the constitutional order. |
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Federal Evidence Rules: 2012 Update Edition Summit Legal Publishing - Restyled Federal Rules of Evidence, effective December 1, 2011
- Traditional Federal Rules of Evidence, as amended effective through November 30, 2011
Complete text of both the new restyled and traditional Federal Rules of Evidence in an easy-to-read quick reference edition intended for portability and convenience in the courtroom or chambers. The volume has been designed to provide a more readable and quickly accessible text than that found in traditional court rules books, and can be conveniently slipped into any overstuffed briefcase or even your laptop bag |
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Distorting the Law: Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis (Chicago Series in Law and Society) William Haltom, Michael McCann In recent years, stories of reckless lawyers and greedy citizens have given the legal system, and victims in general, a bad name. Many Americans have come to believe that we live in the land of the litigious, where frivolous lawsuits and absurdly high settlements reign.
Scholars have argued for years that this common view of the depraved ruin of our civil legal system is a myth, but their research and statistics rarely make the news. William Haltom and Michael McCann here persuasively show how popularized distorted understandings of tort litigation (or tort tales) have been perpetuated by the mass media and reform proponents. Distorting the Law lays bare how media coverage has sensationalized lawsuits and sympathetically portrayed corporate interests, supporting big business and reinforcing negative stereotypes of law practices.
Based on extensive interviews, nearly two decades of newspaper coverage, and in-depth studies of the McDonald's coffee case and tobacco litigation, Distorting the Law offers a compelling analysis of the presumed litigation crisis, the campaign for tort law reform, and the crucial role the media play in this process. |
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American Courts: Process and Policy Lawrence Baum Scholar Lawrence Baum presents thorough descriptions of the courts and their activities with clear, engaging prose to foster student interest. Comprehensive and current, the text offers explanations of what the courts do, how officers of the court perform their duties, and how the judicial branch relates to the rest of the political system. |
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Children Held Hostage Stanley S. Clawar This is the first book to provide objective methods for establishing that a child has been brainwashed by one parent against another. It is based on a ten-year study of 700 cases in the authors' counseling and evaluative work with children of divorced couples. |
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The Guardian of Every Other Right: A Constitutional History of Property Rights (Bicentennial Essays on the Bill of Rights) James W. Ely Jr. The Guardian of Every Other Right provides a comprehensive survey of the pivotal relationship between property rights and the Constitution, examining the role of property ownership from the colonial era to current controversies over land use. The text emphasizes the interplay of law, ideology, politics, and economic change in shaping constitutional thought, and provides a historical perspective on the contemporary debate about property rights. Ely examines such issues as the link between private property and political liberty, the extent to which the government may interfere with private contracts, and the manner in which discourse about private property changed as American society became industrialized.
Now in its second edition, The Guardian of Every Other Right has been revised to take into account the heightened interest in the constitutional rights of property owners since the first edition appeared in 1991. It focuses on the major legal developments in the field of property rights and offers a full treatment of important judicial decisions and notable legislation during the 1990s. Particular attention is paid to the Supreme Court decisions which have enlarged the protection afforded property owners under the fifth amendment. It also examines the reach of federal authority under the commerce clause and the important innovations at the state level. Covering the entire history of property rights, the revised edition of The Guardian of Every Other Right fills an important gap in the literature of constitutional history and is an ideal text for legal and constitutional history courses. |
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Victoria's Manual for Courts-Martial Unofficial Publications LLC Victoria's Manual for Courts-Martial (MCM) resembles the official printed MCM, except Victoria's is modern and convenient. It is specially formatted to take advantage of the features offered by today's advanced Kindles. The table of contents is structured to allow quick navigation to the specific rule of courts-martial, rule of evidence, punitive article or statutory text of interest. The text reflows to the width of your reading device and fonts resize as you direct. Of course, you have the ability to enter custom searches and place your own comments and bookmarks. Victoria's is NOT a half-baked import of the 2008 MCM sold by others.
Unlike the official printed version of the 2008 MCM, the “discussion” in Victoria's stands out from the base text, making it easier to read. Also different from the 2008 print edition--Victoria's is annotated to reflect recent changes from the legislative and executive branches. Executive Orders from 2008 through 2011, and statutory changes that occurred in 2011 and 2012 are incorporated into the text (you will have the new-new Articles' 120 at hand!).
The appendix contains items of contemporary interest. The statutory text of 10 US Code--Chapter 47, and the proposed (as of Spring 2012) changes to the Military Rules of Evidence are provided. Defense Department policy and guidance on applying military justice to civilians, retired military personnel and contractors is also included.
Whether a practicing attorney, law student or a military member who deals with good order and discipline issues daily, Victoria's has something for you. Download the free sample and see for yourself.
Recommended for Kindles with touch screen functionality. |