Bøger af Richard C. Cortner

Provides a systematic analysis of the litigation in Brown v. Mississippi, in which the Supreme Court made a pathbreaking decision in 1936 showing the unconstitutionality of coerced confessions. The case exonerated three black sharecroppers who had confessed under torture to the murder of a white planter.

This is the first in-depth analysis of American railroad litigation from the 1880s to 1910 that led to landmark decisions by the Supreme Court, fundamentally altering the meaning of due process in American constitutional law and establishing a basic power of the federal courts to restrict state regulation over railroad rates.

The struggle for civil rights in America was fought at the lunch counter as well as in the streets. It found victory in the halls of government, but only through a creative use of congressional power. This work provides the background for the cases, including previous legal battles over sit-ins.

The Kingfish and the Constitution is an in-depth analysis of the poisonous relationship that evolved between Huey Kingfish Long, legendary governor of Louisiana, and the state's daily newspapers.