American law yearbook 2007 : an annual source published by Thomson Gale as supplement to West's Encyclopedia of American Law.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilson, Jeffrey, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--United States.

Law.

Justice, Administration of--United States.

Justice, Administration of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Edition:

007th ed.

Place of Publication:

Detroit, [Michigan] : Thomson Gale, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Annual supplement to West's 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:

Front Cover; Title Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abortion; Administrative Law And Procedure; Adoption; Agricultural Law; Antiterrorism And Effective Death Penalty Act Of 1996; Antitrust Law; Appellate Review; Asylum; Banks And Banking; Bankruptcy; Bribery; Campaign Financing; Capital Punishment; Civil Rights; Clean Air Act; Commerce Clause; Constitutional Law; Consumer Credit; Copyright; Court Martial; Criminal Law; Cuomo, Andrew; Damages; Declaratory Judgment; Department Of Justice; Discrimination; Drugs And Narcotics; Due Process; Education Law; Election Campaign Financing

Eleventh AmendmentEminent Domain; Employment Law; Environmental Law; ERISA; Establishment Clause; Extradition; False Claims Act; Federal Communications Commission; Federal Tort Claims Act; First Amendment; Fitzgerald, Patrick; Food And Drug Administration; Forum Non Conveniens; Fourth Amendment; Fraud; Freedom Of Information Act; Freedom Of The Press; Freedom Of Speech; Gay And Lesbian Rights; Habeas Corpus; Harmless Error; Immigration; Immunity; Indictment; Insurance; Judge; Jurisdiction; Jury; McConnell, John Michael; Military Law; Monopoly; Murder; Native American Rights; Negligence

PassportsPatents; Pelosi, Nancy; Perjury; Prevailing Party; Prisoners' Rights; Prisons; Privacy; Probate; Public Utilities; Punitive Damages; Racial Discrimination; Rape; Rehnquist, William H.; Religion; RICO; Royalty; Search And Seizure; Second Amendment; Securities; Segregation; Sentencing; September 11th Attacks; Sex Offenses; Sexual Abuse; Sexual Harassment; Sixth Amendment; Statute Of Limitations; Taxation; Terrorism; Trademarks; Voting; Woods And Forests; Wrongful Discharge; Yoo, John Choon; Bibliography; Appendix; American Association of Law Schools; American Inns of Court

Better Business BureauCampaign Finance Institute; Federalist Society; Innocence Project; League of Women Voters; National Board of Trial Advocacy; National Conference of State Legislatures; Shriver National Center of Poverty Law; Glossary Of Legal Terms; Abbreviations; Table Of Cases Cited ; Index by Name and Subject

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 13, 2016).

ISBN:

9781410337382

1410337383

9781414428888