Ex parte Merryman
Subtitle: two commemorations
By: edited by Joseph W. Bennett
Publisher: Library Company of the Baltimore Bar
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Baltimore, Maryland
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780615535814
Subjects: Trials, litigation; Habeas corpus; Martial law
Notes: "On June 1, 2011, a distinguished assemblage of speakers gathered in the George William Brown Room of the Baltimore Bar Library to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the decision of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney in Ex Parte Merryman."--Preface.
Table of contents: title: Opinion of chief justice Roger Brooke Taney in Ex Parte Merryman --; title: Ex Parte Merryman : proceedings of court day May 16, 1961  -- Roszel C. Thomsen, H.H. Walker Lewis, William L. Marbury, W. Calvin Chestnut; title: Lincolv v. Taney : fighting over the body of John Merryman  -- Catherine C. Blake; title: The mayor and the president  -- George W. Liebmann; title: Justice under stress : federal courts in Baltimore during the civil war  -- Edward Papenfuse; title: Lincoln's other habeas corpus problem -- Jonathan White.