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The court that tamed the West from the gold rush to the tech boom /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, California :
Heyday,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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?