• Supplement to West's Encyclopedia of American Law

  Edition 2002
• Published by Gale

This annual supplement to West's Encyclopedia of American Law update and expand the content with dozens of new topics. The 2002 edition covers:

• Major legal issues surrounding the September 11th Attacks: U.S. v. John Walker Lindh, Daniel Pearl kidnapping and murder, changes in civil liberties in the wake of the attacks, status of POWs held by U.S. military forces, new legislation like the PATRIOT Act and the Air Transportation Safety and Stabilization Act, trials of men accused of orchestrating bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa, etc.
• The Enron scandal
• The Andrea Yates's murder trial
• Revocation of Mumia Abu-Jamal's death sentence
• Firestone/Ford Explorer tire blowout lawsuits
• Major League Baseball's failed attempt to dissolve its franchises in Minnesota and Montreal

Also included are mportant constitutional issues:

• U.S. Supreme Court ruling that Native American casinos are not exempt from paying gambling-related taxes
• New Jersey Supreme Court ruling that a woman's right not to procreate outweighs her husband's right to procreate in a case about frozen embryos
• U.S. Supreme Court decision on how the 2000 Census was conducted
• First Amendment issues: whether a small Ohio town's permit requirements for door-to-door solicitors was a way to impeed Jehovah's Witnesses
• Also whether the federal Child Pornography Prevention Act is unconstitutionally vague

This edition also contains a bibliography for further research.

• Published/Released: September 2002
• ISBN 13: 9780787663308
• ISBN 10: 0787663301
• DDC: 348.7303
• Product number: 180612
• Page count: 325
• Shipping Weight: 3.00 lbs (1.36 kgs)

Price: US $280.00

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