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Business law / James F. Morgan.

Mike — Tue, 31 May 2016 18:44:00 +0000

Morgan, James F.
Redding, CA : BVT Publishing, 2015.
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Includes internet resources and index.

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Cases and materials on contracts : making and doing deals / by David G. Epstein, George E. Allen Chair Professor of Law, University of Richmond Bruce A. Markell, Jeffrey A. Stoops Professor of Law, the Florida State University College of Law Lawrence Ponoroff, Samuel M. Fegtly Chair in Commercial Law, the University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law.

Mike — Tue, 31 May 2016 18:43:00 +0000

Epstein, David G., 1943- author.
St. Paul, MN : West Academic Publishing, [2014]
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Part of the series American casebook series;American casebook series.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface to the fourth edition — Table of cases — Chapter one. What are we going to be doing in this course? — Chapter two. Has your client made a deal? — Chapter three. What is consideration and why is it still and important part of contract law (or is consideration still an important part of contract law)? — Chapter four. Is the agreement unenforceable because of the flaws in the agreement process or problems with the language of the agreement? — Chapter five. What are the terms of the deal? — Chapter six. When is someone who made an enforceable deal excused from doing what she agreed to do? — Chapter seven. How does the law enforce a deal? — Chapter eight. What are the alternatives to contracts and contract law? (Quasi-contract and restitution) — Chapter nine. When do you have rights and/or duties under a contract that you did not make? — Index.

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The small business start-up kit : a step-by-step legal guide / Peri H. Pakroo edited by Marcia Stewart.

Mike — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 14:18:00 +0000

Pakroo, Peri, author.
Berkeley, California : Nolo, 2016.;©2016
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Build a foundation for your business, online and off. Create and implement business and marketing plans. Comply with tax rules, including those affecting home businesses.
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Your small business start-up companion — Choosing a legal structure — Picking a winning business name — Choosing a business location — Drafting an effective business plan — Pricing, bidding, and billing projects — Federal, state, and local start-up requirements — Risk management — Paying your taxes — Laws, Taxes, and other issues for home businesses — Entering into contracts and agreements — Bookkeeping, accounting, and financial management — Small business marketing 101 — E-business : selling and marketing online — Planning for changes in ownership — Planning for changes in ownership — Building your business and hiring workers — Getting legal and other professional help — Small business resources and state-by-state contact information — How to use the interactive forms on the Nolo website.

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A class by herself: : protective laws for women workers, 1890s-1990s / Nancy Woloch.

Mike — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 12:55:00 +0000

Woloch, Nancy, 1940- author.
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2015]
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Part of the series Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America;Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
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A Class by Herself explores the historical role and influence of protective legislation for American women workers, both as a step toward modern labor standards and as a barrier to equal rights. Spanning the twentieth century, the book tracks the rise and fall of women-only state protective laws–such as maximum hour laws, minimum wage laws, and night work laws–from their roots in progressive reform through the passage of New Deal labor law to the feminist attack on single-sex protective laws in the 1960s and 1970s. Nancy Woloch considers the network of institutions that promoted women-only protective laws, such as the National Consumers’ League and the federal Women’s Bureau the global context in which the laws arose the challenges that proponents faced the rationales they espoused the opposition that evolved the impact of protective laws in ever-changing circumstances and their dismantling in the wake of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Above all, Woloch examines the constitutional conversation that the laws provoked–the debates that arose in the courts and in the women’s movement. Protective laws set precedents that led to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and to current labor law they also sustained a tradition of gendered law that abridged citizenship and impeded equality for much of the century. Drawing on decades of scholarship, institutional and legal records, and personal accounts, A Class by Herself sets forth a new narrative about the tensions inherent in women-only protective labor laws and their consequences — Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-320) and index.
Roots of protection: the National Consumers’ League and progressive reform — Gender, protection, and the courts, 1895-1907 — A class by herself : Muller v. Oregon (1908) — Protection in ascent, 1908-23 — Different versus equal : the 1920s — Transformations : the new deal through the 1950s — Trading places : the 1960s and 1970s — Last lap : work and pregnancy.

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Who freed the slaves? : the fight over the Thirteenth Amendment / Leonard L. Richards.

Mike — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 12:23:00 +0000

Richards, Leonard L., author.
Chicago London : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-295) and index.
Prologue: Wednesday, June 15, 1864 — The old order and its defenders — Lincoln and emancipation — To a white and black man’s war — The odd couple — Hostility of the northern democracy — The lame ducks of 1864 — The enforcement clause and its enemies — Epilogue: Emancipation Day, 1893.
In the popular imagination, slavery in the United States ended with Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation may have been limited–freeing only slaves within Confederate states who were able to make their way to Union lines–but it is nonetheless generally seen as the key moment, with Lincoln’s leadership setting into motion a train of inevitable events that culminated in the passage of an outright ban: the Thirteenth Amendment. The real story, however, is much more complicated (and dramatic) than that. With Who Freed the Slaves?, distinguished historian Leonard L. Richards tells the little known story of the battle over the Thirteenth Amendment and of James Ashley, the unsung Ohio congressman who proposed the amendment and steered it to passage. Taking readers to the floor of Congress and the back rooms where deals were made, Richards brings to life the messy process of legislation–a process made all the more complicated by the bloody war and the deep-rooted fear of black emancipation. We watch as Ashley proposes, fine-tunes, and pushes the amendment even as Lincoln drags his feet, only coming aboard and providing crucial support at the last minute. Even as emancipation became the law of the land, Richards shows, its opponents were already regrouping, beginning what would become a decades-long–and largely successful–fight to limit the amendment’s impact. –Jacket.

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A constitutional history of the U.S. Supreme Court / Richard J. Regan.

Mike — Sat, 02 Apr 2016 11:49:00 +0000

Regan, Richard J., author.
Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, [2015]
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Richard Regan presents a concise overview and general history for readers and students in constitutional history and politics, one that will also make an excellent fact-filled source book for lawyers and political scientists. The chapters deal with leading decisions of successive courts and begin with brief biographies of the justices on the courts. Famous cases from Marbury v. Madison, to the Dred-Scott decision, Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, up to the Roberts court decision on the constitutionality of Obamacare are discussed. Four appendices deal with the text of the Constitution and amendments, the court system, a chronological list of the justices with biographical details, and a chronological list of the membership on successive courts. Regan devotes more attention to later courts, specifically the Rehnquist and Roberts courts. This is done due to the wealth of material that exists on earlier courts, but also because the decisions of the more recent courts concern developing areas of constitutional law. Finally, extensive treatment of the most recent courts gives great insights into the current Supreme Court justices and their jurisprudence. As any follower of the Supreme Court will perceive, many recent cases involve decisions by a sharply divided court and the concurring and dissenting opinion of the justices make for fascinating and often hard-hitting reading. Regan hopes that an understanding of the individuals who wrote these opinions will help a reader to understand the legal, political and cultural reality of the present-day legal landscape in the United States — Provided by publisher.
Includes indexes.
The Federalist Court (1789-1800) — The Marshall Court (1801-35) — The Taney Court (1836-64) — The Chase and Waite Courts (1864-88) — The Fuller Court (1888-1910) — The White and Taft Courts (1910-30) — The Hughes Court (1930-41) — The Stone and Vinson Courts (1941-53) — The Warren Court (1953-69) — The Burger Court (1969-86) — The Rehnquist Court (1986-2005) — The Roberts Court (2005-) — Appendix 1. The Constitution of the United States — Appendix 2. The Supreme Court system — Appendix 3. The Justices — Appendix 4. The Supreme Courts.

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Scalia : a court of one / Bruce Allen Murphy.

Mike — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 10:43:00 +0000

Murphy, Bruce Allen, author.
New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2014.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 579-596) and indexes.
This is the compelling story of one of the most polarizing figures ever to serve on the nation’s highest court. Antonin Scalia knew only success in the first fifty years of his life. His sterling academic and legal credentials led him to the Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit in 1982. Just four years later, he outmaneuvered the more senior Robert Bork to the Supreme Court. Scalia’s legal brilliance and personal magnetism led everyone to predict he would unite a new conservative majority and change American law in the process. The prediction was half right: he did alter the legal landscape through his theories of textualism and originalism, but his conservatism was informed as much by his traditional Catholicism and conservative partisanship as by his reading of the constitution. By alienating swing justices Sandra Day O’Connor and Anthony Kennedy, he prevented the conservative majority from coalescing for nearly two decades. Breaking with the tradition that justices should speak only through their decisions, he tested the Court’s ethical boundaries with opinionate speeches and contentious public appearances, turning the institution into a partisan target.–From publisher description.
Scalia in winter — Pride of the Scalias — The chosen few — The Harvard Hit Parade of the 1950s — Building a resume — The President’s legal adviser — Wildflowers among the weeds — It isn’t easy to be right — Terminology is destiny — A court of one — Faint-hearted originalist — Losing the middle — The evil Nino — Master of the barbed opinion — War of the words — Bush v. Gore — Scalia vs. the Pope — Quack, quack — The charm offensive — The dead constitution tour — Opus SCOTUS — The rock star of One first Street — King of the originalists — The methodology of originalism — Kennedy’s court — Roberts’ rules of order — Reading law — Grumpy old Justice.

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The Patriot Act : issues and controversies / by Cary Stacy Smith and Li-Ching Hung.

Mike — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 08:51:00 +0000

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-253) and index.
The U.S. before 9/11 — Changes brought about by 9/11 — Psychological underpinnings — Titles of the Patriot Act — Grumblings across the land — The law.

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Mass incarceration on trial : a remarkable court decision and the future of prisons in America / Jonathan Simon.

Mike — Sat, 12 Dec 2015 09:50:00 +0000

Simon, Jonathan, 1959- author.
New York : The New Press, 2014.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-197) and index.
Introduction: Inhuman punishment — Total incapacitation : the 1970s and the birth of an extreme penology — The house of fear : dignity and risk in Madrid v. Gomez — Engines of madness : Coleman v. Wilson — Torture on the installment plan : prisons without medicine in Plata v. Davis — Places of extreme peril : Coleman-Plata v. Schwarzenegger and California’s prisons in the era of chronic hyper-overcrowding — Dignity cascade : Brown v. Plata and mass incarceration as a human rights problem — The new common sense of high-crime societies.
Mass Incarceration on Trial examines a series of landmark decisions about prison conditions-culminating in Brown v. Plata, decided in May 2011 by the U.S. Supreme Court-that has opened an unexpected escape route from this trap of tough on crime politics. This set of rulings points toward values that could restore legitimate order to American prisons and, ultimately, lead to the demise of mass incarceration. This book offers a provocative and brilliant reading to the end of mass incarceration.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

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A more perfect union : what we the people can do to protect our constitutional liberties / Ben Carson with Candy Carson.

Mike — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 09:15:00 +0000

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-232) and index.
Our guide to freedom — History of the Constitution — We the people — In order to form a more perfect union — Establish justice and ensure domestic tranquility — Provide for the common defense — Promote the general welfare — Secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity — Article 1, The legislative branch — Article 2, The executive branch — Article 3, The judicial branch — Articles 4-7 — The Bill of Rights — Later amendments — A call to action.
Many people have wondered why I’ve been speaking out on controversial issues for the last few years. They say I’ve never held political office. I’m not a constitutional scholar. I’m not even a lawyer. All I can say to that is ‘Guilty as charged.’ It’s true that I’ve never voted for a budget America could not afford. I’ve never raised anyone’s taxes. And I’ve never promised a lobbyist anything in exchange for a donation. Luckily, none of that really matters. Our founding fathers didn’t want a permanent governing class of professional politicians. They wanted a republic, in Lincoln’s words, ‘of the people, by the people, and for the people.’ A country where any farmer, small-business owner, manual laborer, or doctor could speak up and make a difference. I believe that making a difference starts with understanding our amazing founding document, the U.S. Constitution. And as someone who has performed brain surgery thousands of times, I can assure you that the Constitution isn’t brain surgery. The founders wrote it for ordinary men and women, in clear, precise, simple language. They intentionally made it short enough to read in a single sitting and to carry in your pocket. I wrote this book to encourage every citizen to read and think about the Constitution, and to help defend it from those who misinterpret and undermine it. In our age of political correctness it’s especially important to defend the Bill of Rights, which guarantees our freedom to speak, bear arms, practice our religion, and much more. The Constitution isn’t history — it’s about your life in America today. And defending it is about what kind of country our children and grandchildren will inherit. I hope you’ll enjoy learning about the fascinating ways that the founders established the greatest democracy in history — and the ways that recent presidents, congresses, and courts have threatened that democracy. As the Preamble says, the purpose of the Constitution is to create a more perfect union. My goal is to empower you to help protect that union an

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