Blindfolds off : judges on how they decide /

I have selected specific (generally, well-known) cases for the free-flowing dialogues that follow from the thousands of cases to which these 13 (alphabetized) judges have been assigned?those that have raised critical questions about justice, policy, precedent, the law, and the way in which the curre...

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Main Author: Cohen, Joel, 1944-
Other Authors: Posner, Richard A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago, Illinois : American Bar Association, [2014]
©2014
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Table of Contents:
  • Judge Leonie Brinkeman : the Moussaoui terrorism case
  • Judge Denny Chin : Madoff: why 150 years?
  • Judge Martin Feldman : Deepwater Horizon
  • Judge Nancy Gertner : upbraiding the FBI
  • Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein : managing and settling the 9/11 tort cases
  • Judge David Hittner : an inner city project's demolition
  • Judge John E. Jones III : intelligent design
  • Judge Charles P. Kocoras : the failed expert
  • Chief Judge Alex Kozinski : judging from the "bully pulpit"
  • Judge Jed S. Rakoff : death is different
  • Judge Emmet G. Sullivan : guilt, innocence, and prosecutorial misconduct
  • Judge Vaughn R. Walker : same-sex marriage
  • Judge Jack B. Weinstein : agent orange
  • Epilogue
  • Excerpt from the nature of the judicial process