trials, litigation, etc

Presents an account of the legal battles that erupted following the 2000 presidential election.

Chronicles the events surrounding the Supreme Court cases related to Title II of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibited discrimination in public accommodations, discussing how the Supreme Court's decisions impacted the civil rights movement.

Provides information on the Scopes trial, evolution, fundamentalism, and American education and the differing perspectives accompanying them.

A graphic novel account of the lives and deaths of Italian immigrants and admitted anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, who were accused of murder in Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1920, tried, convicted, and executed, in a case that caused an uproar around the world due to the questionable circumstances surrounding the case.

Describes the historical context of the 1995 U.S. Supreme Court case involving the Vernonia School District in Oregon verses seventh-grader James Acton which focused on the school's policy of testing student athletes for illegal drug use.

"The fourth entry in Geary's chronicling of famous XXth century murders tackles the extremely controversial case of Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Geary delves into his most political case yet in this series, however, all his favorite elements are there: the murders are unsolved, the attention of the media is tremendous, there are multiple theories as to what really happened. What's unusual about this particular event is how this polarized and galvanized the world. A possibly biased judge they could never get rid of no matter how many appeals, thanks to Massachusetts law, and a prevailing attitude, especially among the ruling elite, about eradicating anarchists and communists, may have contributed to what many decried as a monkey court trial. Many pieces of evidence were inconclusive, much testimony questionable. Riots erupted all over the world. They lived in a time when class differences were at a raw edge worldwide, the US included, and this struck far too many as more evidence of repression by the ruling elite. In this volume, we are not dealing with some outlandish fait divers but a clash of classes and a justice system that may have failed to treat these men with any equanimity. The tension throughout the book is palpable as a result"--Publisher's wbe site.

Traces the life of Margaret Garner, a twenty-two-year-old slave in mid-nineteenth-century Kentucky, focusing on the nation-wide controversy that erupted when Margaret, recaptured after fleeing to Ohio, killed her young daughter rather than have the child returned to slavery.