Author: California. Grand Jury (Los Angeles County)
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Category : Grand jury
Languages : en
Pages : 572

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Author: California. Grand Jury (Orange County)
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Category : Courts
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Author: Tom Sitton
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476688656
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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This book studies Los Angeles County and its government since World War II. A special focus is given to the "Titans of Temple Street," the five-member Board of Supervisors that determines policies and actions for many issues throughout the county, especially for residents who do not live in the county's 88 cities. It is the largest of all U.S. counties, with a population of more than 10 million, more residents than 41 states, and an annual budget of more than $44 billion, more than all but 19 states. It has served as an innovative example of county government since the early 1900s.

Author: California. Grand Jury (Santa Clara County)
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Category : Santa Clara County (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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Author: Armando Lara-Millán
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0197507891
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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"This book argues that we have drastically misunderstood the changes taking place in our nation's largest jails and public hospitals. And more generally, the way that states govern urban poverty at the turn of the 21st century. It is widely believed that because we as a society have divested in public health the sick and poor now find themselves subject to powerful criminal justice institutions. Rather than focus on the underinvestment of health and overinvestment of criminal justice, this book argues that the fundamental problem of the state is a persistent crisis between budgetary catastrophe and expansive new legal rules. Redistributing the Poor pushes us to think about the circulation of people for the purposes of generating absent revenue, absolving new legal demands, and projecting illusions that crisis have been successfully resolved. This book takes us into the heart of the state: the day-to-day operations of the largest hospital and jail system in the world. It is only by centring the states use of redistribution that we can understand how certain forms of social suffering-the premature death of mainly poor, people of color-are not a result of the state's failure to act, but instead the necessary outcome of so-called successful policy"--

Author: Steven P. Erie
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804751407
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Examines the history of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, from its obscure 1920s-era origins, through the Colorado River Aqueduct and State Water Projects, to today's daunting mission of drought management, water quality, environmental stewardship, and post-9/11 supply security. Simultaneous.

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Languages : en
Pages : 492

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Author: Andrew E. Kersten
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 080909486X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 327

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Clarence Darrow is best remembered for his individual cases, whether defending the thrill killers Leopold and Loeb or John Scopes’s right to teach evolution in the classroom. In the first full-length biography of Darrow in decades, the historian Andrew E. Kersten narrates the complete life of America’s most legendary lawyer and the struggle that defined it, the fight for the American traditions of individualism, freedom, and liberty in the face of the country’s inexorable march toward modernity. Prior biographers have all sought to shoehorn Darrow, born in 1857, into a single political party or cause. But his politics do not define his career or enduring importance. Going well beyond the familiar story of the socially conscious lawyer and drawing upon new archival records, Kersten shows Darrow as early modernity’s greatest iconoclast. What defined Darrow was his response to the rising interference by corporations and government in ordinary working Americans’ lives: he zealously dedicated himself to smashing the structures and systems of social control everywhere he went. During a period of enormous transformations encompassing the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, Darrow fought fiercely to preserve individual choice as an ever more corporate America sought to restrict it.

Author: California. Legislature. Assembly
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 2238

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Author: California. Legislature. Assembly
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 1854

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