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Updated in a new 9th edition, this casebook explores civil liberty
problems through a study of leading judicial decisions. It offers a
reasonable sample of cases across a broad spectrum of rights and
liberties. This book introduces groups of featured cases with
in-depth commentaries that set the specific historical-legal
context of which they are a part, allowing readers to examine
significant portions of court opinions, including major arguments
from majority, concurring, and dissenting opinions.
Updated in a new 9th edition, this casebook explores civil liberty
problems through a study of leading judicial decisions. It offers a
reasonable sample of cases across a broad spectrum of rights and
liberties. This book introduces groups of featured cases with
in-depth commentaries that set the specific historical-legal
context of which they are a part, allowing readers to examine
significant portions of court opinions, including major arguments
from majority, concurring, and dissenting opinions.
Israel’s victory in the 1967 ‘Six Day War’ sowed the seeds of the
1973 Yom Kippur War. At 1400hrs on 6 October 1973 the Egyptian army
launched an assault crossing of the Suez Canal. The carefully
co-ordinated attack achieved complete tactical surprise. The sand
embankments of the Israeli Bar-Lev Line were breached and an
Israeli counterattack thrown back with heavy losses. In the second
of his two-volume analysis of the Yom Kippur War, Simon Dunstan
details the fighting in the Sinai, culminating in Operation
Gazelle, the Israeli counterattack across the Suez Canal. Although
defeated militarily Egypt did ultimately succeed in forcing the
Israelis back to the negotiating table.
There are more than 600 Federal district judges serving today, and
they decide some 230,000 civil cases each year. About 90% of the
decisions they reach are final. Lyles argues that these lower court
judges not only influence the flow of information to the judicial
hierarchy, but they formulate questions that influence how higher
courts, including the Supreme Court, respond. As such they are key
elements in the formulation and implementation of public policy. To
cite a few examples, they desegregate school districts, run mental
institutions and prisons, break up monopolies, and reapportion
legislatures. Lyles begins by examining the structure and function
of federal courts and detailing the history, operation, and purpose
of the district courts. He then turns to the selection, nomination,
and appointment of district judges. Lyles then analyzes the extent
to which presidents might advance policy objectives through their
judicial appointments to the district courts. After examining how
African-American, Latino, and white judges, male and female, view
their roles as policy actors, Lyles concludes with a discussion of
the implications of the study. Important for students and scholars
of contemporary public policy and the court system.
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