Title: Hard judicial choices :
Authors: Cooper, Phillip J.
Date: 1988
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Physical description: 374 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: K
Contents: Introduction -- Judges Under the Miscroscope: Remedial Decree Cases as a Window on the Judicial Process -- The Courts and Equal Housing -- United States v. City of Parma, Ohio: Open Housing Conflict in a Cleveland Suburb -- Equal Educational Opportunity: Federal Courts and School Desegregation -- Milliken v. Bradley: The Detroit Busing Case -- Politics and Pathos: Federal Courts and the Right to Treatment in Mental Health Facilities -- Wyatt v. Stickney: Judge Frank Johnson and Mental Health in Alabama -- Prisons: The Cruel and Unusual Punishment Controversy -- Rhodes v. Chapman: Ohio Prisons Under Challenge -- Police Practices and Public Accountability: Legal Pressures on Local Politics -- Rizzo v. Goode: The Philadelphia Police Conflict -- The Dynamics of Remedial Litigation -- Bibliography -- Cases -- Index
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Abuse of administrative power--United States--States.; District courts--United States.; Judicial process--United States.; Judicial review of administrative acts--United States.; Law--Political aspects.; Remedies (Law)--United States.