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Adversity & justice : a history of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Michigan / Kevin M. Ball.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ball, Kevin M., author.
- Series:
- Great Lakes books
- Great Lakes Books
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Bankruptcy Court (Michigan : Eastern District)--History.
- United States.
- United States. Bankruptcy Court (Michigan : Eastern District).
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 247 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2016].
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Bankruptcy in the nineteenth century
- The early days of the Bankruptcy Act, 1898-1919
- The Bankruptcy Court and the development of the American automobile industry, 1900-1925
- Paul King and the making of the modern American bankruptcy courts
- The Bankruptcy Court in the 1940s and 1950s
- The 1960s and 1970s: George Brody and the end of the administrative era
- The 1978 Code: Bankruptcy comes of age
- Scandal envelops the Court
- Fallout from the scandal: The August trial
- Chapter 11 and the heyday of business bankruptcy in the Eastern District of Michigan
- Bankruptcy in the Northern Division
- The Court in the consumer bankruptcy era
- The City of Detroit bankruptcy case
- Appendix 1: Referees and judges of the Court
- Appendix 2: Places of Court.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliography (pages 233-237) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0814336078
- 9780814336076
- OCLC:
- 921867584
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