Civil rights and constitutional litigation
Subtitle: cases and materials
By: by Charles F. Abernathy
Edition: 5th ed.
Series: American casebook series
Publisher: Thomson/West; West Academic Publishing; West Academic
Published: 2012
Place of publication: St. Paul, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 974
ISBN-13: 9780314267870
Subjects: Civil rights; Constitutional law; Cases
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Part One. The original civil rights statutes and constitutional litigation; title: Section 1983 : state interference with civil rights; title: Part Two. Semi-constitutional statutes : the power of congress to expand constitution-based rights; title: Sections 1981 and 1982 : private racial discrimination and the Thirteenth Amendment; title: Section 1985(3) : equal security, conspiracies, and dual constitutional sources; title: Applying the older civil rights statutes to federal officials; title: Part Three. Second reconstruction and beyond : the civil rights acts, 1964 to present; title: Title II of the civil rights act of 1964 : public accommodations and congressional power under the commerce clause; title: Title VI and its analogues : civil rights as a regulatory regime; title: Title VII and its analogues : employment discrimination; title: Voting rights act of 1965 : discrimination in voting.