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The cover of the book. The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court is a 2007 non-fiction book by legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin.Based in part on exclusive interviews with the justices and former law clerks, Toobin profiles the justices of the United States Supreme Court, the functioning of that institution, and how it has changed over the years.
Volumes of the United States Reports. The United States Reports (ISSN 0891-6845) are the official record (law reports) of the Supreme Court of the United States.They include rulings, orders, case tables (list of every case decided), in alphabetical order both by the name of the petitioner (the losing party in lower courts) and by the name of the respondent (the prevailing party below), and ...
Biskupic has extensive experience as a journalist. She was a reporter for the Washington Post and is currently a CNN analyst. Prior to writing Nine Black Robes, she wrote four well-received individual Supreme Court Justices' biographies: Chief Justice John Roberts, and Justices Antonin Scalia, Sandra Day O'Connor, and Sonia Sotomayor.
Kingsley Books, Inc. v. Brown, 354 U.S. 436 (1957), was a Supreme Court case that addressed issues of obscenity, free speech, and due process. The case stemmed from the confiscation and destruction of books from a New York City bookstore.
The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court is a 1979 book by Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong. It gives a "behind-the-scenes" account of the United States Supreme Court during Warren Burger's early years as Chief Justice of the United States. The book covers the years from the 1969 term through the 1975 term.
The Dirty Dozen: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom is a Cato Institute book, written by Robert A. Levy and William Mellor and released in May 2008, about twelve U.S. Supreme Court decisions that were viewed as greatly undermining individual freedom by expanding the power of government. [1]
The Lawyers' Edition was established by the Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company of Rochester, New York in 1882, and features coverage of Supreme Court decisions going back to 1790. [1] The first Lawyers' Edition series corresponds to the official United States Reports from volume 1 to volume 351 , whereas the second series contains cases ...
The book describes events leading up to and during the Colfax massacre in Grant Parish, Louisiana, on Easter Sunday, 1873, in which dozens of African Americans were killed at the hands of white supremacists, as well as the subsequent manhunt, trial, and appeal to the United States Supreme Court, in which the Court in a unanimous decision in United States v.