Description
The second volume of Select Legal Topics updates, analyses, and covers current developments in such areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, state civil procedure, civil rights matters, constitutional issues, and significant recent Supreme Court decisions. Select Legal Topics also covers issues of mental disease or defects in the case of a criminal client and considers the rules in the criminal procedure law concerning motions to set aside the verdict as well as post-conviction motions.
Section one analyzes mainly criminal law issues. Section two considers civil rights issues. Included in this section are such issues as the First Amendment, state action, and other more specific and exact issues in this area. Section three of the book considers various procedural issues. The book also includes a comprehensive index and table of cases. This book, to some extent, is general in character but also hones in and analyses certain legal developments in significant United States Supreme Court decisions. It will be of great benefit both to lawyers, law students, law faculty, university professors, and judges at the federal and state level.
Table of Contents
Section I – Criminal Law
Introduction
1. Post-Conviction Motions: First in a Three-part Series
2. Post-Conviction Motions: Second in a Three-part Series
3. Post-Conviction Motions: Part Three
4. Notice of Alibi: An Overview and Analysis
5. The Motion to Set Aside the Verdict: A Compilation of Cases
6. An Analysis of the Motion to Set Aside the Verdict: Subsection 1
7. An Analysis of the Motion to Set Aside the Verdict: Subsection 2
8. An Analysis of the Motion to Set Aside the Verdict: Part IV
9. Article 730 / Mental Disease or Defect Excluding Fitness to Proceed: Part I
10. Article 730 / Mental Disease or Defect Excluding Fitness to Proceed: Part II
11. Article 730 / Mental Disease or Defect Excluding Fitness to Proceed: Part III
Section II – Civil Rights Law
Introduction
12. The First Amendment and State Action
13. Named or Unnamed: A Neat Question
14. State Human Rights and Title VII
15. A Matter of Time
16. A Question of National Origin
17. A Note on Equitable Tolling
18. A Recent Civil Rights Case
19. A Word about Civil Rights and Domestic Violence
20. A Recent Case on Corporate Finance
21. Section 1983 and Excessive Force
22. Termination At Will?
23. A Few Words on a Recent United States Supreme Court Case
24. A Final and Disturbing Labor Law Decision
25. Some Comments on Three Recent Supreme Court Cases
Section III – Procedural Issues
Introduction
26. The Motion to Strike
27. When an Attorney Does Not Appear: The CPLR Solution
28. A Note on Objections Under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
Table of Cases
Index
Product details
| Published | Nov 13 2015 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 190 |
| ISBN | 9780761890331 |
| Imprint | University Press of America |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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