A place of recourse; a history of the U.S. district court for the southern district of Ohio, 1803-2003.0821416022 A place of recourse; a history of the U.S. district court for the southern district of Ohio The District of Ohio was a federal judicial district of the United States created by the Federal Judiciary Act of 1801 which consisted of the Northwest and Indiana Territories. , 1803-2003. Alexander, Roberta Sue. Ohio University Press Ohio University Press is part of Ohio University. It publishes under its own name and the imprint Swallow Press. External links
2005 417 pages $60.00 Hardcover Ohio University Press series on law, society, and politics in the Midwest KF8755 According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. author Alexander (emeritus, history, U. of Dayton), the development of the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, one of 91 US district courts, illustrates the transformation of federal district courts from sleepy institutions--hearing a few land title disputes, federal attempts to collect penalties, and other relatively inconsequential cases--to major arbiters of national and state power ruling on such economically and socially significant issues as corporate abuse and antitrust violations, the enforcement of the draft and wartime restrictions, and the desegregation desegregation: see integration. of schools. She examines the types of litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. that the court has dealt with, its judges, and the substantive and procedural transformations of the court, narrating a 200-year history and arguing that the court has increasingly come to see itself as a protector of individual rights under the Constitution. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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