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Suburbs under Siege : Race, Space, and Audacious Judges /

In Suburbs under Siege Charles Haar argues passionately that all people--rich or poor, black or white--have a constitutional right to live in the suburbs and that a socially responsible judiciary should vigorously uphold that right. For various reasons, American courts have generally failed to quest...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Haar, Charles M. (Charles Monroe), 1920-2012 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1996]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue A nation of suburbs
  • Breaking new ground : the role of the courts in social change
  • Part I Challenge and response
  • Launching the Mount Laurel Doctrine
  • The view from the Mount
  • Judges into the fray
  • Of special masters and the front line
  • Part II An uneasy triumph
  • The legislature strikes back
  • ... And the judiciary responds : Holmdel and Warren
  • Part III Institutional reform through the courts
  • The new world of judicial remedies
  • Discretion and its discontents : checking abuses
  • Part IV The legacy
  • Leadership in institutional reform : rallying support for a vision
  • The last recourse : why judges intervene
  • National ramifications : judges as social innovators.