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The Alger Hiss Communist spy trial

a headline court case
2001
Chronicles the events surrounding the spy trial of Alger Hiss.

The Earls case and the student drug testing debate

debating Supreme Court decisions
2006
Both sides of the Supreme Court case over student drug testing are presented, as well as information on how students can conduct their own mock judicial proceeding.

A matter of conscience

the trial of Anne Hutchinson
1993
Recounts Anne Hutchinson's struggle with the Puritan Church over its rigid theocratic control of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, her trial for heresy and sedition, and banishment from the colony.

Miranda rights

2007
Discusses the origin of the Miranda rights, and provides opposing viewpoints on the legislation's legality, appropriateness, use by crime fighters, and other related issues.

The London monster

a sanguinary tale
2001
Offers a detailed account of the London Monster, a predator who violently lashed out at over fifty women in the late eighteenth century, and assesses evidence for the guilt or innocence of the man who was convicted of the attacks.

The O.J. Simpson murder trial

a headline court case
2001
An account of the criminal and civil trials of O.J. Simpson for the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Readers are encouraged to form their own opinions about whether or not justice was done.

The trial of gangster Al Capone

a headline court case
2001
Describes the life and times of the gangster Al Capone and how the government managed to try and imprison him.

The Bakke case

quotas in college admissions
1998
Provides background and discussion of the case brought by a white male student who challenged the affirmative action policy used in admitting students to the University of California medical school.

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