Courting Justice : Ten New Jersey Cases That Shook the Nation /
Ten cases decided between 1960 and 2011, including the Karen Ann Quinlan decision, the Baby M case, the Mount Laurel decision, Megan's Law, and the series of decisions known as Abbott/Robinson that directed state funding of poor urban schools on par with suburban districts, shed light on landma...
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
[2013]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Henningsen v. Bloomfield Motors, Inc. (1960): promoting product safety by protecting consumers of defective goods / Jay M. Feinman and Caitlin Edwards
- Marini v. Ireland (1970): protecting low-income renters by judicial shock therapy / Richard H. Chused
- Southern Burlington County NAACP v. Township of Mount Laurel (1975): establishing a right to affordable housing throughout the state by confronting the inequality demon / Robert C. Holmes
- In Re Karen Ann Quinlan (1976): establishing a patient's right to die in dignity / Robert S. Olick and Paul W. Armstrong
- Right To Choose v. Byrne (1982): establishing a state constitutional right to publicly funded abortions / Louis Raveson
- State v. Hunt (1982): protecting privacy from unwarranted searches amid a national roadmap to independent state constitutional rights / Robert F. Williams
- In The Matter Of Baby M (1988): reining in surrogate parenting and protecting a child's best interests
- Suzanne A. Kim
- Lehmann v. Toys-R-Us (1993): protecting employees from sexual harassment and a hostile work environment / Fredric Gross
- Doe v. Poritz and Megan's law (1995): the subtle art of judicial deference to the legislature / Ronald K. Chen
- New jersey's school funding litigation, Robinson v. Cahill and Abbott v. Burke (2011): the epitome of the state supreme court as an independent, progressive voice in guaranteeing constitutional rights / Paul L. Tractenberg
- New Jersey's 1947 constitution and the creation of a modern state supreme court / John B. Wefing.