Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
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Category : Calendars
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 714

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Author: Sarah L. Staszak
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199399034
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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We are now more than half a century removed from height of the rights revolution, a time when the federal government significantly increased legal protection for disadvantaged individuals and groups, leading in the process to a dramatic expansion in access to courts and judicial authority to oversee these protections. Yet while the majority of the landmark laws and legal precedents expanding access to justice remain intact, less than two percent of civil cases are decided by a trial today. What explains this phenomenon, and why it is so difficult to get one's day in court? No Day in Court examines the sustained efforts of political and legal actors to scale back access to the courts in the decades since it was expanded, largely in the service of the rights revolution of the 1950s and 1960s. Since that time, for political, ideological, and practical reasons, a multifaceted group of actors have attempted to diminish the role that courts play in American politics. Although the conventional narrative of backlash focuses on an increasingly conservative Supreme Court, Congress, and activists aiming to constrain the developments of the Civil Rights era, there is another very important element to this story, in which access to the courts for rights claims has been constricted by efforts that target the "rules of the game: " the institutional and legal procedures that govern what constitutes a valid legal case, who can be sued, how a case is adjudicated, and what remedies are available through courts. These more hidden, procedural changes are pursued by far more than just conservatives, and they often go overlooked. No Day in Court explores the politics of these strategies and the effect that they have today for access to justice in the U.S.

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Monopolies and Commercial Law
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Category : Antitrust law
Languages : en
Pages : 474

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
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Category : Civil procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Author: United States
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1722

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Author: Sarah Staszak
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197771726
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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While the use of arbitration in the private sector has grown dramatically in recent decades, arbitration itself is not new. Yet the practice today looks very different than it did at its origins. How did arbitration shift from providing a low cost, less adversarial, and more efficient way of handling disputes between relative equals to a private, non-reviewable, and compulsory forum for resolving disputes between individuals and corporations that almost always favors the latter? Privatizing Justice examines the broader institutional, political, and legal dynamics that shaped this century-long transformation and explains why the system that emerged has shifted power to corporations, exacerbated inequality, and eroded democracy.

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
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Category : Appellate courts
Languages : en
Pages : 588

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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1338

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Category : Arbitration and award
Languages : en
Pages : 840

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