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1) Asylum
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young psychiatrist interviews four inmates in a mental asylum to satisfy a requirement for employment. He hears stories about the revenge of a murdered wife, a tailor who makes a suit with some highly unusual qualities, a woman who questions her sanity when it appears that her brother is conspiring against her, and a man who builds tiny toy robots with lifelike human heads.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (iv, 20 pages).
Language
English
Description
At issue is whether the federal crime of aiding and abetting the use of firearms requires proof of defendant's facilitation or encouragment in its use, or only the advance knowledge that an accomplice has a firearm.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (ii, 20 pages).
Language
English
Description
The question presented is whether the extension of a police traffic stop in order to use a drug-sniffing dog without reasonable suspicion violates the Fourth Amendment.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (iii, 20 pages).
Language
English
Description
The question presented is whether a search or seizure is reasonable under the Fourth Amendment when a traffic stop is based on a police officer's reasonable mistake of fact or law.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (viii, 21 pages).
Language
English
Description
At issue is whether a felon who is prevented by law from 'possessing' firearms may transfer his lawfully owned guns so long as the transfer does not give the felon control over the firearms.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (iv, 31 pages).
Language
English
Description
At issue is whether an Arizona law providing for public financing of election campaigns violates the First Amendment by linking the funds received to the the amount raised or spent by privately-financed opponents.
Author
Publisher
[NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.?]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (x, 28 pages).
Language
English
Description
At issue is whether a state's evidence rule can bar a juror's evidence of racial bias to prove a violation of the defendant's right to an impartial jury.
Author
Series
Publisher
[Jenner & Block LLP?]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (viii, 47 pages).
Language
English
Description
At issue is whether a union 'agency shop' arrangement requiring 'fair share' payments by non-union members violates the First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and assembly.
Author
Publisher
[National Family Civil Rights Center?]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (iv, 18 pages).
Language
English
Description
Brief of amici curiae in several related cases before the Supreme Court concerning the constitutional rights of same sex couples to marry and to have their marriages recognized in other states.
Author
Publisher
The Lex Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xi, 32 pages).
Language
English
Description
The case concerns the validity of the 9th Circuit's 'provocation rule," which makes a police officer's otherwise reasonable use of force unreasonable if it provokes a violent provocation.
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
These are the stories of four of his customers and their horrifying surprises. The Elemental and The Gate Crasher tell of two individuals who attempt to cheat the shopkeeper and meet gruesome deaths. An Act of Kindness tells a bizarre, gruesome tale of true love between the daughter of an ex-serviceman and an unhappily married man. In The Door, a couple buys an antique door, which opens to an elegant but evil drawing-room that must be kept alive by...
Author
Publisher
[NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.?]
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiii, 33, 5a pages).
Language
English
Description
The question presented is whether a suit for employment discrimination may be certified as a class action where plaintiffs seek to represent a class of approximately 1.5 million women.
Author
Series
Publisher
[Goldstein & Russell, P.C.?]
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (viii, 33 pages).
Language
English
Description
At issue is whether the establishment and free exercise clauses of the First Amendment bar an employment discrimination suit by a minister teaching in her church's religious school against her church.
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