Historic U.S. Court Cases
Subtitle: An Encyclopedia (American Law and Society Series)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: June 1, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1128
ISBN-13: 9780415930192
First sentence: Despite the stirring affirmations of equality in the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, thousands of legal disputes in the history of the American colonies and the United States have involved discrimination or perceived discrimination against racial minorities, women, homosexuals, and persons with disabilities.