Bibliograph

Black Mondays, worst decisions of the Supreme Court, Joel D. Joseph

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Black Mondays, worst decisions of the Supreme Court, Joel D. Joseph

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Black Mondays

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Joel D. Joseph

Series statement

A Zenith edition

Sub title

worst decisions of the Supreme Court

Summary

Publishers Weekly praised Black Mondays: 'Publisher's Weekly praised Black Mondays: "Unlike Thurgood arshall's opinion in the foreword that the framers of the nstitution should be blamed for its inequities and compromises involving slavery and women, constitutional authority Joseph asserts that its misinterpretation by Supreme Court justices, rather than the document itself, was responsible for such erroneous decisions as the Dred Scott case, which, he alleges, helped precipitate the Civil War. The case is among what he considers the court's 20 "worst" decisions as selected by legal associations and law professors, either because they reflect poor reasoning or adversely affect the freedom of citizens. The cases and the cited dissents, which make instructive reading, concern freedom of religion, association, speech, right to privacy, equal protection under the law, criminal rights and access to justice. Included are the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson 'Jim Crow' case, and the Il internment of citizens of Japanese origin, Georgia sodomy laws, Ralph Ginzburg's obscenity conviction and a June 1987 decision involving an FBI search of a black family in their Minnesota home, which, in the author's view, undercuts the Fourth Amendment guarantee of liberty and privacy." Israeli Supreme Court Justice Eliezer Rivlin said, "Black Mondays is really a masterpiece."

Target audience

adult

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