Called to justice : the life of a federal trial judge / Warren K. Urbom ; foreword by William Jay Riley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Urbom, Warren K.

Series:

Law in the American West series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judges--Nebraska--Biography.

Judges.

Urbom, Warren K.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (383 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Early in his judicial career, U.S. District Judge Warren K. Urbom was assigned a yearlong string of criminal trials arising from a seventy-one-day armed standoff between the American Indian Movement and federal law enforcement at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. In Called to Justice Urbom provides the first behind-the-scenes look at what quickly became one of the most significant series of federal trials of the twentieth century. Yet Wounded Knee was only one set of monumental cases Urbom presided over during his years on the bench, a set that in turn forms but one chapter in a remarkable...

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword: Tribute to a Federal Trial Judge; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Invitation to Resign; 1. The Rocky Road to a Judgeship; 2. Growing Up; 3. Looking for Answers and Finding Them; 4. Practicing Law; 5. Church and Family; 6. A Federal Trial Judge Gives Answers; 7. Wounded Knee and the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868; 8. The Progressive Farmers Association Trial; 9. Back to Normal; 10. Judging throughout the Nation; Diminuendo: Closing Down; Appendix; Notes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786613863225

9781283550772

1283550776

9780803244573

0803244576

OCLC:

810933462