Justice and Legal Change on the Shores of Lake Erie : A History of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.

Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Paul Finkelman -- Part 1: Beginnings -- Chapter 1 The Willson Era: The Inception of the Northern District of Ohio, 1855-67 -- Chapter 2 A Political Show Trial in the Northern District: The Oberlin-Wellington Fugitive Slave Rescue Case -- Chapter 3 The Impact of the Northern District of Ohio on Industrialization and Labor: Liability Law and Labor Injunctions in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, 1870-1932 -- Chapter 4 The Trial of Eugene V. Debs, 1918 -- Part 2: The Modern Court -- Introduction to Part 2: Dan Aaron Polster -- Chapter 5 Bringing Brown to Cleveland -- Chapter 6 The Struggle for Gender Equality in the Northern District of Ohio -- Chapter 7 Religion in the Public Sector -- Chapter 8 From Euclid to the Development of Federal Environmental Law: The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio and the Regulation of Physical Space -- Chapter 9 Preserving Trust in Government: Public Corruption and the Court -- Chapter 10 The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio and the May 4, 1970 Shooting at Kent State University -- Chapter 11 When Law and Conscience Conflict: The Draft Nonregistration Case of United States v. Mark Arden Schmucker -- Chapter 12 The Trials of John Demjanjuk -- Chapter 13 Capital Litigation in the Northern District -- Appendix A: Historical Listing of Northern District Court of Ohio District Judges -- Appendix B: Historical Listing of Northern District Court of Ohio Magistrate Judges -- Notes on Contributors -- Index of Cases -- General Index.

Justice and Legal Change on the Shores of Lake Erie explores the many ways that the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio has affected the region, the nation, the development of American law, and American politics.The.

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