"This honorable court"
Subtitle: the United States District Court for the district of New Jersey, 1789-2000
By: Mark Edward Lender.
Contributors: United States. District Court (New Jersey)
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780813538044
Subjects: United States. District Court (New Jersey) -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The birth of the court : the origins of the district of New Jersey; title: "Stability and dignity" : Judge Robert Morris and the formative years, 1789-1815; title: Others of the court : personnel, politics, and continuity to 1815; title: The Antebellum Courts : judges, politics, and change; title: The Civil War : national crisis and judicial response; title: Caseloads and consequences : court calendars, court reform, and courthouses to the 1900s; title: A multi-judge court : the evolution of the bench; title: Institutional growth through mid-century : courthouses and the "court family"; title: To the 1950s : the district court as political history; title: Toward equality : the district court and constitutional rights; title: Into the present : familiar themes and modern responses.