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American law yearbook 2018 : a guide to the year's major legal cases and developments / [project editor, Michael J. Tyrkus].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Gale eBooks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law--United States.
- Law.
- Law--United States--Popular works.
- Justice, Administration of--United States.
- Justice, Administration of.
- Courts--United States.
- Courts.
- Lawyers--United States.
- Lawyers.
- Judges--United States.
- Judges.
- Law--Cases.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 331 pages) : color illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Farmington Hills, Michigan : Gale, a Cengage Company, [2019]
- Summary:
- Annual supplement to the Gale Encyclopedia of American Law that updates and expands the content with new topics, updates, biographies of prominent figures and government appointees, and other features. Each year's edition contains the full U.S. Supreme Court docket in addition to the non-Supreme Court cases.
- Contents:
- Abortion
- Advertising
- Animal rights
- Arbitration
- Attorney's fees
- Aviation law
- Bail
- Bankruptcy
- Campaign finance
- Capital punishment
- Civil procedure
- Civil rights
- Collective bargaining
- Commerce clause
- Consumer law
- Contract
- Corruption
- In focus: can President Donald Trump face obstruction of justice charges?
- Counsel
- Criminal procedure
- Cryptocurrency
- In focus : cryptocurrency creates a web of legal issues
- Death penalty
- Disability law
- Discrimination
- Drugs and narcotics
- Due process
- Education law
- Election law
- Eminent domain
- Eminent domain and the U.S.-Mexico border wall
- Emolument
- Employment law
- Environmental law
- Equal protection
- Establishment clause
- Ethics
- Evidence
- Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
- Family law
- Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
- First Amendment
- In focus : the increasingly expanding concept of "public forum" under the First Amendment
- In focus : should free speech be limited on college campuses?
- Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)
- Fourth Amendment
- Gambling
- Gay and lesbian rights
- Gerrymandering
- Gun control
- In focus : mass shootings: gun rights and public safety
- Habeas Corpus
- Health law
- Immigration
- Immunity
- Inmates
- Judges
- Jurisdiction
- Kidnapping
- Labor law
- Legal education
- Maritime law
- Media (or mass communication) law
- Murder
- Native American rights
- In focus : Native American tribes and the endless fight for water rights
- Nondisclosure agreements
- Pardon
- Police power
- Presidential powers
- Prisoners' rights
- Privacy
- Racial discrimination
- Reproductive rights
- Right to counsel
- Right to privacy
- Same-sex marriage
- Second Amendment
- Securities
- Securities and exchange commission
- Sentencing
- Separation of powers
- Sex offenses
- Sexual harassment
- Sixth Amendment
- Sovereign immunity
- Sports law
- Statute of limitations
- Suicide
- Taxation
- Technology
- Tobacco
- Trademarks
- Transgender
- Veterans' rights
- Victims' rights
- Voting rights
- Water rights
- Whistleblower.
- Notes:
- "ISSN: 1521-0901."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781410377760
- 1410377768
- 9781410391919
- 1410391914
- OCLC:
- 1080395308
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