American law yearbook 2010
By: Jeffrey Wilson, project editor
Series: Gale virtual reference library; Gale virtual reference library
Publisher: Gale
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Detroit, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781414463391; 9781410337412; 9781414438818
Subjects: Law; Popular works; Administration of Justice; Courts; Lawyers; Judges; Cases; LAW; Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice
Other titles: West's encyclopedia of American law.
Description: Annual supplement to West's Encyclopedia of American Law that updates and expands the content with new topics, updates, biographies of prominent figures and government appointees, and other features. Each year's edition contains the full U.S. Supreme Court docket in addition to the non-Supreme Court cases.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Affirmative action; title: Antitrust law; title: Arbitration; title: Attorney-client privilege; title: Attorney; title: Attorney's fees; title: Bankruptcy; title: Banks and banking; title: Blackmail; title: Cable television; title: Campaign finance; title: Capital punishment; title: Class action; title: Comity; title: Commercial law; title: Conflict of laws; title: Constitutional law; title: Contempt; title: Copyright; title: Corruption; title: Criminal law; title: Criminal procedure; title: Death and dying; title: Debtor and creditor; title: Deportation; title: Disparate impact; title: Diversity jurisdiction; title: Double jeopardy; title: Drugs and narcotics; title: Education law; title: Election law; title: Entertainment law; title: Environmental law; title: ERISA; title: Establishment clause; title: Ethics; title: Evidence; title: Ex post facto laws; title: Extradition; title: Fair trial; title: False claims act; title: Family law; title: Federal preemption; title: Federal tort claims act; title: Fifth amendment; title: First amendment; title: Foreign sovereign immunity act; title: Forfeiture; title: Fourth amendment; title: Franchise; title: Fraud; title: Freedom of religion; title: Governmental immunity; title: Habeas corpus; title: Health care; title: Immigration; title: Immunity; title: Impeachment; title: Intellectual property; title: Internet; title: Juvenile law; title: Juvenile sentencing; title: Kagan, Elena; title: Labor law; title: Lawyers; title: Legal education.; title: Legal research; title: Libel; title: Minow, Martha; title: Miranda rights; title: Murder; title: In focus; title: Necessary and proper clause; title: Original jurisdiction; title: Patents; title: PATRIOT act; title: Pelosi, Nancy; title: Political parties; title: Ponzi scheme; title: Post, Robert C.; title: Practice of law; title: Prevailing party; title: Privacy; title: Probate; title: Product liability; title: Property law; title: Prosecutorial misconduct; title: Public utilities; title: Racial discrimination; title: Racketeering; title: Railroads; title: Religion; title: RICO; title: Sarbanes-Oxley act; title: Schill, Michael H.; title: Search and seizure; title: Second amendment; title: Securities; title: Sentencing; title: Sixth amendment; title: Sotomayor, Sonia; title: Sovereign immunity; title: Speedy trial; title: Standard of review; title: Statute of limitations; title: Subject matter jurisdiction; title: Supremacy clause; title: Terrorism; title: Theft; title: Voting rights act; title: Whistleblower; title: White collar crime.