The Court That Tamed the West : From the Gold Rush to the Tech Boom.
Cahan, Richard.
The Court That Tamed the West : From the Gold Rush to the Tech Boom. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (552 pages)
Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword by Judge William Alsup -- Chapter 1: The Admiralty Court -- California's Federal Courts -- A Gentleman and a Scholar -- Poking Fun at the Judge -- And the World Rushed In -- Yellow Eyes -- Sailors' Wages -- The "Hellship" Trials -- White Swallow: The Gentle Mutiny -- The San Francisco Committees of Vigilance -- The Banished -- Chapter 2: The Gold Rush and the Land Grab -- Early California Land Measurement -- District Court Marshal Francis Bret Harte, Gold Rush Writer -- Who Owns California? -- Spanish Roots of California -- Shotgun Titles -- Law or Customs? -- John Charles Frémont -- New Almaden Quicksilver Mine -- Juana Briones -- The Land Grab: San Francisco's Early Years -- Fugitive Slaves in California -- Limantour: US Victory against Fraud -- Justice Stephen Johnson Field -- Justice Field and Judge Hoffman: A Love Story with Pirates -- Chapter 3: The Chinese Habeas Corpus MILL -- Songs of Gold Mountain -- Coming to America -- Habeas Corpus: The Sacred Document of Personal Freedom -- California: Gold Mountain -- Timeline of the Chinese in California -- The Rise of Anti-Chinese Sentiment -- No Term of Endearment -- The Octopus -- Bankruptcy: Ghirardelli, The Chocolate King -- Patents: Andrew Hallidie's Cable Car -- The Perfect Storm -- Address by Dennis Kearney, 1878 -- California Constitution of 1879 -- The Shed -- Hoffman's Star Chamber -- Judge Lorenzo Sawyer -- Yick Wo v. Hopkins: Equal Protection Under the Law -- The Fourteenth Amendment -- Born in the USA -- End of the Century -- Judge William Morrow -- Judge John J. DeHaven -- From Celebrity Divorce to In Re Neagle -- The Mint Robber -- An Early Victory for the Environment -- The Disaster of the SS Rio de Janeiro -- Chapter 4: The New Courthouse -- The Case That Rocked the Region -- Other Well-Known People Prosecuted Under the Mann Act. Beyond San Francisco -- New Directions -- The Hindoo Conspiracy -- Morals and a World War -- A New Judgeship -- Challenging Prohibition -- A Man of Power -- Chapter 5: Depression and War -- Lady in Waiting -- The Impeachment Trial -- Thomas Mooney's Day in Court -- FDR's Men -- John Muir on Hetch Hetchy -- Mystery Court -- Jury of One's Peers -- A Woman's Place -- World War II -- Excerpt from Executive Order Number 9066 -- Excerpt from Civilian Exclusion Order Number 34 -- Correcting the Supreme Court -- Modest and Unassuming -- World War II Cases -- Chapter 6: After the War -- New Judgeships -- Truman's Judges -- A Getty in the House -- The Sacramento Seat -- Kidnapped -- Runaway Grand Jury -- Courthouse Hustlers -- Shooting Stars -- A New Courthouse -- Earl Warren's Boys -- Identity Theft -- Chapter 7: Conscientious Objection -- Free Love -- Automatic Justice -- The Man for San Jose -- A Watchful Eye -- A New Generation -- The Court and Vietnam -- Black Power -- Chapter 8: Rise Against the Establishment -- "A Labor Man All My Life" -- Challenging Death -- Will the Execution Be Televised? -- The New World of Antitrust -- Is Nothing Sacred? -- The Plight of Migrant Workers -- Nixon-Era Judges: Washed Out? -- The Magistrates Act: Welcome Relief -- San Francisco Schools: The Desegregation Cases -- Radical Femmes -- The Assassin -- One Philosophy -- Three New Judges -- Poole on "Activist Judges" -- A Hell of a Trial -- Chapter 9: A Broader Scope -- The Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1996 -- The Peoples Temple -- Robert Aguilar's Legal Troubles -- Weigel v. the FBI -- A New Diversity -- A Court for Northern California -- The Bench Gets Bigger -- National Security -- A Republican Tilt -- Chapter 10: Modern Times -- The Expanding Court -- The Challenge of Technology -- BALCO and Starbucks -- Different Backgrounds -- Filling Seats -- Serendipity. Epilogue -- Addendum by John Briscoe -- Acknowldegments -- Appendix A: Court Chronology -- Appendix B: Lists -- A Note on Sources -- About the Authors.
9781597142632
United States.-District Court (California : Southern District)-History.
Electronic books.
KF8755.C28 / .C343 2013
The Court That Tamed the West : From the Gold Rush to the Tech Boom. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (552 pages)
Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword by Judge William Alsup -- Chapter 1: The Admiralty Court -- California's Federal Courts -- A Gentleman and a Scholar -- Poking Fun at the Judge -- And the World Rushed In -- Yellow Eyes -- Sailors' Wages -- The "Hellship" Trials -- White Swallow: The Gentle Mutiny -- The San Francisco Committees of Vigilance -- The Banished -- Chapter 2: The Gold Rush and the Land Grab -- Early California Land Measurement -- District Court Marshal Francis Bret Harte, Gold Rush Writer -- Who Owns California? -- Spanish Roots of California -- Shotgun Titles -- Law or Customs? -- John Charles Frémont -- New Almaden Quicksilver Mine -- Juana Briones -- The Land Grab: San Francisco's Early Years -- Fugitive Slaves in California -- Limantour: US Victory against Fraud -- Justice Stephen Johnson Field -- Justice Field and Judge Hoffman: A Love Story with Pirates -- Chapter 3: The Chinese Habeas Corpus MILL -- Songs of Gold Mountain -- Coming to America -- Habeas Corpus: The Sacred Document of Personal Freedom -- California: Gold Mountain -- Timeline of the Chinese in California -- The Rise of Anti-Chinese Sentiment -- No Term of Endearment -- The Octopus -- Bankruptcy: Ghirardelli, The Chocolate King -- Patents: Andrew Hallidie's Cable Car -- The Perfect Storm -- Address by Dennis Kearney, 1878 -- California Constitution of 1879 -- The Shed -- Hoffman's Star Chamber -- Judge Lorenzo Sawyer -- Yick Wo v. Hopkins: Equal Protection Under the Law -- The Fourteenth Amendment -- Born in the USA -- End of the Century -- Judge William Morrow -- Judge John J. DeHaven -- From Celebrity Divorce to In Re Neagle -- The Mint Robber -- An Early Victory for the Environment -- The Disaster of the SS Rio de Janeiro -- Chapter 4: The New Courthouse -- The Case That Rocked the Region -- Other Well-Known People Prosecuted Under the Mann Act. Beyond San Francisco -- New Directions -- The Hindoo Conspiracy -- Morals and a World War -- A New Judgeship -- Challenging Prohibition -- A Man of Power -- Chapter 5: Depression and War -- Lady in Waiting -- The Impeachment Trial -- Thomas Mooney's Day in Court -- FDR's Men -- John Muir on Hetch Hetchy -- Mystery Court -- Jury of One's Peers -- A Woman's Place -- World War II -- Excerpt from Executive Order Number 9066 -- Excerpt from Civilian Exclusion Order Number 34 -- Correcting the Supreme Court -- Modest and Unassuming -- World War II Cases -- Chapter 6: After the War -- New Judgeships -- Truman's Judges -- A Getty in the House -- The Sacramento Seat -- Kidnapped -- Runaway Grand Jury -- Courthouse Hustlers -- Shooting Stars -- A New Courthouse -- Earl Warren's Boys -- Identity Theft -- Chapter 7: Conscientious Objection -- Free Love -- Automatic Justice -- The Man for San Jose -- A Watchful Eye -- A New Generation -- The Court and Vietnam -- Black Power -- Chapter 8: Rise Against the Establishment -- "A Labor Man All My Life" -- Challenging Death -- Will the Execution Be Televised? -- The New World of Antitrust -- Is Nothing Sacred? -- The Plight of Migrant Workers -- Nixon-Era Judges: Washed Out? -- The Magistrates Act: Welcome Relief -- San Francisco Schools: The Desegregation Cases -- Radical Femmes -- The Assassin -- One Philosophy -- Three New Judges -- Poole on "Activist Judges" -- A Hell of a Trial -- Chapter 9: A Broader Scope -- The Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1996 -- The Peoples Temple -- Robert Aguilar's Legal Troubles -- Weigel v. the FBI -- A New Diversity -- A Court for Northern California -- The Bench Gets Bigger -- National Security -- A Republican Tilt -- Chapter 10: Modern Times -- The Expanding Court -- The Challenge of Technology -- BALCO and Starbucks -- Different Backgrounds -- Filling Seats -- Serendipity. Epilogue -- Addendum by John Briscoe -- Acknowldegments -- Appendix A: Court Chronology -- Appendix B: Lists -- A Note on Sources -- About the Authors.
9781597142632
United States.-District Court (California : Southern District)-History.
Electronic books.
KF8755.C28 / .C343 2013