Overruled?
Subtitle: legislative overrides, pluralism, and contemporary court-Congress relations
By: Jeb Barnes.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
Subjects: Statutes -- United States; Judicial review -- United States; Law -- United States -- Interpretation and construction; Political questions and judicial power -- United States
Description: "Since the mid-1970s, Congress has passed hundreds of overrides - laws that explicitly seek to reverse or modify judicial interpretations of statutes. This book asks: Do overrides, in fact, effectively clarify the law, reverse objectionable judicial statutory interpretations, and broaden deliberation on contested issues? The answers provide new insights into the complex role of overrides in U.S. policy-making and in the politics of contemporary court-Congress relations."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The questions, debate, and overview; title: Overrides in contemporary U.S. policy-making : promise and current understanding; title: Assumptions and hypotheses; title: Data, methods, and findings.; title: A typology of override scenarios; title: Operationalization of typology, findings, and discussions.; title: Under what conditions...? patterns and hypotheses.; title: Broader implications and avenues for future inquiry.