Success Without Victory
Subtitle: Lost Legal Battles and the Long Road to Justice in America (Critical America)
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: January 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780814751121
Subjects: Courts & procedure; Jurisprudence & General Issues; United States - General; Legal System; Law; Legal Reference / Law Profession; United States; USA; Political activists; Legal History; Justice, Administration of; Practical Guides; Anecdotes; Justice and politics; Political aspects
First sentence: ON A BRIGHT, sunny November morning in 1990, my fellow lawyer Michael Ratner and I stood on the steps of the Federal District Courthouse in Washington, D.C., listening to members of Congress explain why they were suing the president of the United States to prevent him from going to war against Iraq.