Judge Thelton Henderson : breaking new ground /
"Judge Thelton Henderson, Senior Judge of the Federal Circuit for Northern California, began his legal career with the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department in 1962. He was the first African American Justice Department attorney to work in the South, where he became an important liaiso...
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Northport, New York :
Twelve Tables Press,
2017
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Table of Contents:
- Part one. Thelton Henderson and the process of judicial decision making
- Introducing Thelton Henderson
- Judge Henderson and the art of judging
- Part two. Path to the bench
- The early years
- College, the army, and law school
- The Justice Department
- Law practice, legal services, and academia
- Appointment to the bench
- Rashomon
- Part three. Judge Thelton Henderson
- On and off the bench
- Dolphins, Vietnam veterans, and Johnny Spain
- Dolphin-safe tuna
- Agent Orange
- Unshackled, The Johnny Spain case
- Institutional reform litigation and the limits of judicial power : California prisons and an East Palo Alto school district
- Institutional reform litigation
- Judge Henderson's prison trilogy : introduction
- Judge Henderson's prison trilogy, part I : Madrid v. Gomez
- Judge Henderson's prison trilogy, part II : Plata v. Schwarzenegger (Nee Plata v. Davis)
- Judge Henderson's prison trilogy, part III : Coleman/Plata v. Schwarzenegger
- Recording atrocities redux : special education in East Palo Alto
- Judge Henderson's judicial activism and his judicial restraint : two examples (with two Ninth Circuit reversals and two Supreme Court vindications)
- The (mostly) false rhetoric of judging
- High Tech Gays : suspect classifications and fundamental rights
- Proposition 209 : inequality in the political process
- The Ninth Circuit?
- Appendix A. The legal framework
- Appendix B. HighTech Gays in the Ninth Circuit
- Appendix C. Rush to judgment : the Ninth Circuit's Proposition 209 opinion