Civil rights litigation [electronic resource] : representing plaintiffs today / Rebecca A. Taylor.
"Asserting our civil rights goes to the heart of what it means to be an American - but unfortunately, our property, liberty, and even life can be jeopardized when we exercise these fundamental rights. Lawyers are needed to assist when authority figures wrongfully attempt to deny us those rights...
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago, Illinois :
American Bar Association,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- The Second Amendment
- The First Amendment
- The Fourth Amendment
- search and seizure
- The Fifth Amendment
- rights of persons
- The Fourteenth Amendment
- rights guaranteed, privileges and immunities of citizenship, due process, and equal protection
- Discrimination due to sexual orientation
- The process before trial, settlement, or appeal
- Conducting your due diligence
- Dealing with opposing counsel
- Intake
- Other practice tips
- Forming your case
- Motion practice
- Discovery
- The new guerrilla warfare of civil rights.
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; Modern Solutions: Litigation and Beyond; Pro-Civil Rights Focus; Recognizing the Good That Many Government Officials Do; Other Definitions and Caveats; PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS OF CIVIL RIGHTS; CHAPTER 1 The Second Amendment; The Current Law of the Second Amendment; Stand Your Ground; Mental Health Aspects; Intervention for At-Risk Youth; The Future of the Second Amendment Debate; CHAPTER 2 The First Amendment; Declaration of Independence; Protests; The Occupy Movement; CHAPTER 3 The Fourth Amendment-Search and Seizure
- What Privacy Means Today versus What It Should MeanCommon Law Right to Privacy; What Privacy Invasions Are We Willing to Accept?; Racial Profiling, Spying, and Harassment; Stop-and-Frisk; Physical Searches and Seizures; Police Killings of Unarmed Citizens; CHAPTER 4 The Fifth Amendment-Rights of Persons; Due Process; CHAPTER 5 The Fourteenth Amendment-Rights Guaranteed, Privileges and Immunities of Citizenship, Due Process, and Equal Protection; Equal Protection; CHAPTER 6 Discrimination Due to Sexual Orientation; Debunking the Anti-Equality Myths
- Affirmation of Equality in Marriage by the Supreme CourtPART TWO: LITIGATION; CHAPTER 7 The Process Before Trial, Settlement, or Appeal; CHAPTER 8 Conducting Your Due Diligence; CHAPTER 9 Dealing with Opposing Counsel; CHAPTER 10 Intake; Risk Management; Ultimate Goals; CHAPTER 11 Other Practice Tips; Distinguishing Bad Case Law and Statutes; CHAPTER 12 Forming Your Case; Precedent and Case Strategies for Protesters; What Would You Have Done?; Choosing Your Venue and Pleading Accordingly; Litigating Against Probable Cause and Qualified Immunity; Interlocutory Appeals of Qualified Immunity
- CHAPTER 13 Motion PracticeMotions to Dismiss; Motions to Remove to Federal Court; Motions for Preliminary Injunctions or Temporary Restraining Orders; Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings; Motion for Summary Judgment; CHAPTER 14 Discovery; Sample Requests for Production; Sample Deposition Questions for the Arresting Police Officer; Supplementing Discovery with FOIA Requests; CHAPTER 15 The New Guerrilla Warfare of Civil Rights; Other Forums of Protest; Grassroots Constitutional Amendments; Assistance from the National Guard; Elections; Boycotting; The Power of Exposure
- Fight Back with TechnologyIndex; About the Author