History of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in the country's bicentennial year
Publisher: United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
Subjects: History; Law; United States. Court of Appeals (District of Columbia Circuit)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Members of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia; title: The court's antecedents and its early days; title: The 1920's and 1930's, with an increase in judges and some bizarre factual issues; title: Problems of the war during the 1940's, as the court reached its present size; title: Aftermath of the war in the 1950's, including Durham, Mallory and their progeny; title: The 1960's, from Luck to problems of administrative law; title: The Court Reform Act and its aftermath; title: Issues of the 1970's, from tenants' rights to the Pentagon Papers; title: Search and seizure, speech and debate, the Christmas pageant and Watergate; title: Quasi-political problems of the mid-1970's; title: Summary and analysis of the court, its work and its workload.