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""Scorpions" tells the story of four great justices: their relationship with Roosevelt, with each other, and with the turbulent world of the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. It also serves as a history of the modern Constitution itself, exploring the constitutional battles of the Roosevelt era (1940s and 1950s) and their contemporary relevance."--
242) Fight back and win: my thirty-year fight against injustice, and how you can win your own battles
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Voted by her peers as one of the best lawyers in America, and described by Time magazine as "one of the nation's most effective advocates of family rights and feminist causes," Allred has devoted her career to fighting for civil rights and has won hundreds of millions of dollars for victims of abuse. She has taken on countless institutions to promote equality, including the Boy Scouts, the Friars Club, and the United States Senate. And as the attorney...
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Murders don't happen in Kaufman County, Texas, a sleepy community where people raise their kids quietly and drive into Dallas for work and entertainment. In 2013, murder came to town when two professional prosecutors were slain in cold blood, simply for doing their jobs: one in broad daylight in plain view of the courthouse, and one in his home, along with his wife. Eric Williams is responsible for all the bloodshed, and he has a list of who to kill...
244) Lettres de prison
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Lettres échangées entre les deux anarchistes et leurs familles, leurs camarades et leurs avocats pendant la période o ils furent emprisonnés de 1920 à 1927.
En 2027, il y aura un siècle que ces deux hommes reconnus innocents auront été passés sur la chaise électrique parce que leur exécution favorisait la carrière d'un juge, d'un gouverneur et installait à long terme, la peur chez tous les syndicalistes et socialistes américains.
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An insider exposes the shocking facts deliberately left out of the hit Netflix series Making a Murderer-and argues persuasively that Steven Avery was rightfully convicted in the 2005 killing of Teresa Halbach.
After serving eighteen years for a crime he didn't commit, Steven Avery was freed-and filed a thirty-six-million-dollar lawsuit against Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. But before the suit could be settled, Avery was arrested again-this time for...
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One day in Laurel, Mississippi, a twenty-six-year-old expectant mom named Karen Street sat down at the edge of her bathtub-and felt her hip split in two. The episode was so bizarre that it wasn't until later-after she saw the doctor-that she realized her bone disease was almost certainly linked to her father-in-law's business. Winston Street ran a machine shop that drilled the gunk out of pipes used by Chevron, Shell, and other giants of the oil industry-creating...
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Provocative true cases that explore the intersection of our most intimate relationships and the law, and offer a window into how we define a family today.
A woman seeking a divorce has no idea of the family finances, her husband doled out money only after she gave him requisition slips for her intended purchases. A lesbian couple wants to include their sperm donor in their child's life, the sperm donor is the brother of one partner, so he will be...
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Prior to the Abraham Lincoln becoming an American president there are some surprising situations in his life and this book is about one of them. Honest Abe found himself in a very dark, disturbing, scary situation that was vengeful, had conspiracy mixed in and shows comedy, while the entire situation almost took his life. If you like true life mysteries, or appreciate historic facts, you will enjoy reading about this other side of Abe. It is pure...
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The first policewomen were established during the Great War, but with no powers of arrest; the first women lawyers did not practise until the early twentieth century, and despite the fact that women worked as matrons in Victorian prisons, there were few professional women working as prison officers until the 1920s. The Justice Women traces the social history of the women working in courts, prisons and police forces up to the 1970s. Their history includes...
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Qui sont ces êtres tristement célèbres ?
Ils sont devenus les couples de tueurs en série les plus tristement célèbres. Ils s'appellent Marc Dutroux et Michelle Martin, Fred et Rosemary West, Paul Bernardo et Karla Homolka ou encore Michel Fourniret et Monique Olivier. Ils ont commis les pires atrocités, les pires crimes. En couple, ils ont enlevé, séquestré, torturé, violé et tué. Les faits se sont déroulés aux États-Unis, en Australie,...
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A work of memoir, history, and a call to action, In Search of a Better World, the 2017 CBC Massey Lecture, is a powerful and essential work on the major human rights struggles of our times. In February of 2017, Amnesty International released their Annual Report for 2016 to 2017, concluding that the "us versus them" rhetoric increasingly employed by politicians is endangering human rights the world over. Renowned UN prosecutor and human rights scholar...
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An Edgar Award–winning account of miscarriages of justice, wrongful convictions, legal battles, and landmark reversals by the creator of Perry Mason. In 1945, Erle Stanley Gardner, noted attorney and author of the popular Perry Mason mysteries, was contacted by an overwhelmed California public defender who believed his doomed client was innocent. William Marvin Lindley had been convicted of the rape and murder of a young girl along the banks...
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No one so famous or controversial led so many secret lives.
Loathed by some, well respected by others, Roy Cohn was known as the toughest and most brilliant lawyer in America. And indeed, his power brokering, love of glamour, controversy, and notoriety made him, in the end, one of the most influential men in our society. From his role in the Rosenbergs' trial and as chief counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Senate hearings through his...
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Representing Michigan for thirty-six years in the U.S. Senate, Carl Levin, the longest-serving senator in Michigan history, was known for his dogged pursuit of the truth, his commitment to holding government accountable, and his basic decency. Getting to the Heart of the Matter: My 36 Years in the Senate is his story — from his early days in Detroit as the son of a respected lawyer to the capstone of his career as chair of both the Senate Armed...
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The dramatic love story of two extraordinary individuals--Nancy Mitford and free French commander Gaston Palewski--living in extraordinary times. "Oh, the horror of love!" Nancy Mitford once exclaimed to her sister Diana Mosley. Elegant and intelligent, Nancy was a reknowned wit and a popular author. Yet this bright, waspish woman gave her heart to a well-known philanderer who went on to marry another woman. Was Nancy that unremarkable thing-a deluded...
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Après la guerre d'Algérie, certains rescapés harkis et leurs familles sont arrivés en métropole, ils rêvaient de liberté, d'égalité et de paix. Cependant, ils n'ont trouvé que mépris, isolement et abandon. Leur histoire était devenue taboue, ils étaient mués en coupables de tous les maux du pays. Pourtant, en 1977, Smain Djebarni a créé la première association dans le département de Lot-et-Garonne dans le Villeneuve-sur-Lot pour...
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A Poignant Memoir of Inspiration and Wisdom
Judie Dziezak is no stranger to adversity. Those who know her as an attorney, technology writer, or scientist see a soft-spoken, pleasant, competent professional who courageously stands up for what's right even when she is the only one standing. What they don't know is that growing up, she wrestled with a tumultuous crescendo of abuse from her mentally ill mother....
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Donald L. Hollowell was Georgia's chief civil rights attorney during the 1950s and 1960s. In this role he defended African American men accused or convicted of capital crimes in a racially hostile legal system, represented movement activists arrested for their civil rights work, and fought to undermine the laws that maintained state-sanctioned racial discrimination. In Saving the Soul of Georgia, Maurice C. Daniels tells the story of this behind-the-scenes...
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¿Qué pasó el 4 de septiembre de 2005?
El 4 de septiembre de 2005, cuando se celebraba el Día del Padre, el coche que conducía Robert Farquharon, un limpiador de cristales con una vida ordinaria, se salió de la carretera y se hundió en una balsa con sus tres hijos dentro. Él logró alcanzar la orilla y salvarse; sus hijos, de diez, siete y dos años, no lo consiguieron. El proceso judicial trató de determinar si, como creía la conmocionada...
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«A l'encontre de l'idée reçue, l'éloquence n'est pas faite d'effets de manches. C'était peut-être vrai il y a un siècle ou même un demi-siècle mais cela a totalement changé aujourd'hui. J'ai eu la chance d'entendre de grandes plaidoiries, des plaidoiries que je qualifierais de "monumentales", énoncées d'un ton simple, sans formules "magiques", sans accents tonitruants, sans références littéraires, mais prononcées avec une foi et une...
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