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0809316994

ACLU Handbook Series: The Right to Protest

This paperback is part of the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) Handbook Series. This informative volume provides the average citizen with an easily accessible description of the Constitution's provisions, legal doctrines, and laws which govern protest activities in the United States.

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080931598X

ACLU Handbook Series: The Rights of Aliens and Refugees

This paperback is part of the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) Handbook Series. Virtually all the protections written into the Constitution are stated in universal terms applicable to all persons, aliens as well as citizens. The disparate treatment given to aliens has come largely from legislative acts of federal and state governments during periods of hostility toward immigrants of differing racial and ethnic origin and against persons regarded as disloyal in times of war and ferment. The Supreme Court has continously held that Congress has the absolute power to exclude and to expel from the United States any aliens it chooses. Using a question-and-answer format, this book attempts to define the rights of aliens in the United States under existing laws. It will help aliens and those who assist them to know, to understand, to exercise those rights and to extend their opportunities to function as full members of the American community.

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0553248170

ACLU Handbook Series: The Rights of Crime Victims

This paperback is part of the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) Handbook Series. The need to guarantee basic rights for the victims of crime is finally being recognized by the courts and elected officials. Some states have even enacted a crime victims Bill of Rights, but the laws affecting victims still vary widely trhoughout the country. This essential guide surveys the recent developments that help victims find assistance, maintain their dignity, receive compensation for injuries and losses and increase the effectiveness of their participation in arrests, bail hearings, trials, sentencing and probation or parole determinations. Special information is also provided for elderly victims and for victims of domestic violence and rape.

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0809317680

ACLU Handbook Series: The Rights of Indians and Tribes

This paperback is part of the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) Handbook Series. This informative guide thoroughly discusses, in a friendly question-and-answer format, the powers of Indian tribes; civil and criminal jurisdiction on Indian reservations; Indian hunnting, fishing and water rights; taxation; the Indian Civil Rights Act; the Indian Child Welfare Act; and tribal jurisdiction over non-Indians. This is an ideal book for anyone living in or near Indian country to understand the complexities of Indian law.

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080931634X

ACLU Handbook Series: The Rights of Lesbians and Gay Men

This paperback is part of the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) Handbook Series. This informative book provides a careful survey of the rights of lesbians and gay men under present law, specifically in regard to freedom of speech and association, employment, housing, the military, family relationships, criminal matters, security clearances and HIV disease. Written in non-technical language and using a question-and-answer format, this book is highly readable.

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0809314320

ACLU Handbook Series: The Rights of Older Persons

This paperback is part of the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) Handbook Series. Using a question-and-answer format, this book focuses on laws designed to protect the elderly. The three broad areas of concern are the right to an adequate income, the right to health care, and the right to freedom from restraints on life, liberty, and property.

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0809319926

ACLU Handbook Series: The Rights of People Who are HIV Positive

This paperback is part of the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) Handbook Series. It is estimated that HIV has been responsible for the deaths of over five million people worldwide, and has infected nearly five times that number. Indeed, the disease has achieved the status of a worldwide epidemic in less than fifteen years. The authors, all experts in this emerging area of the law, insist we cannot lose sight of the fundamental human rights issues that are at stake in the HIV crisis. The health policies, practices, and programs generated in response to HIV raise a myriad of challenging legal questions that cut across many areas of life and the law. Using a simple question-and-answer format, "The Rights of People Who Are HIV Positive" will prove invaluable not only to people living with HIV but to their friends, families, partners, advocates, and lawyers.

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0809314525

ACLU Handbook Series: The Rights of Prisoners

This paperback is part of the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) Handbook Series. The Rights of Prisoners adopts a question-and-answer format to explain the constitutional guarantees as well as rights won through litigation. Topics include freedom from cruel and unusual punishment, due process, prison censorship and much more.

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0809318881

ACLU Handbook Series: The Rights of Racial Minorities

This paperback is part of the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) Handbook Series. Using a question-and-answer format, this book makes clear how to take advantage of the laws designed to secure the rights of racial minorities. Individual chapters explain the federal civil laws and procedures protecting the rights of racial minorities in voting, employment, education, housing, public accommodations, federally assisted programs and jury selection and trials. Relevant criminal statutes and the use of race-conscious remedies are also covered. The initial basis for the rights of racial minorities was provided by three constitutional amendments adopted following the Civil War during the period of Reconstruction. Each of these amendments authorized Congress to enforce them by appropriate legislation, which Congress has repeatedly done. The most important of the Reconstruction laws were the Civil Rights Act fo 1866, the Civil Rights Act of 1871 and the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which was declared unconstitutional in 1883. In response to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, Congress enacted and amended a number of modern civil rights acts including the Civil Rights Act of 1964; the Voting Rights Act of 1965, amended in 1970, 1975 and 1982; and the Fair Housing Act of 1968 to ensure equality and eradicate the continuing effects of past discrimination accumulated over more than two centuries. The challenge to the nation remains to bring reality to the declared principle that all persons are created equal.

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0553248162

ACLU Handbook Series: The Rights of Single People

This paperback is part of the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) Handbook Series. The rights of single people-divorced, never married, living alone or living with a lover-are rapidly changing. Knowing them can help you protect yourself when it comes to owning property, finding an apartment, having children, dealing with employers, avoiding domestic entanglements and more. This frankly written guide alerts you to the legal problems faced by singles and lets you understand what rights you have under present law and why.

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1565842235

Arguments on Abortion

Audio presentation of eight major cases on reproductive rights. The tapes introduce each case and includes commentary about them. The accompanying book includes transcripts of the arguments, excerpts from the final decisions, reading lists, and a chronology of court history on reproductive rights.

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0972514104

Be Careful Who You SLAPP

Publisher's Jacket Description: The First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America guarantees its citizens freedom of speech. The California Constitution demands, "A law may not restrain or abridge liberty of speech or press." Yet, since the winter of 1999, Varian, a Fortune 500 company, and its army of legal ruffians dared to unlawfully suppress these rights by initiating a multi-million dollar SLAPP lawsuit against its critics and for the personal gain of its executives. The threat is real, the story is true. This book is an extraordinary, true-life account of two law-abiding gadflies who unwittingly became embroiled in the Mother of All SLAPP's and refused to be silenced by corporate corruption and judicial malfeasance. Facing financial ruin, death threats and incarceration these stalwart Americans used the power of the Internet and the words of the World Wide Web to take on the SLAPP terrorists -- Richard M. Levy, Richard A. Aurelio, Susan B. Felch aqnd George A. Zdasiuk.

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0314167774

Nutshell: Elder Law

One of over 150 titles in West's Law in a Nutshell series, this book is a comprehensive resource in an easy-to-read, concise format. With a title representing almost every area of law, Nutshells provide a solid understanding of a specific area of law and include references to important cases that have helped shaped the law. Topics included in this title are: scope and diversity of elder law; ethical considerations in dealing with older clients; health care decision making; medicare and medigap; medicaid; long-term care insurance; nursing homes and custodial care facilities; housing alternatives and options; guardianship; alternatives to guardianship; social security benefits; supplemental security income veteran's benefits; pension plans; age discrimination in employment; and elder abuse and neglect.

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0314146113

Nutshell: First Amendment Law

One of over 150 titles in West's Law in a Nutshell series, this book is a comprehensive resource in an easy-to-read, concise format. With a title representing almost every area of law, Nutshells provide a solid understanding of a specific area of law and include references to important cases that have helped shaped the law. Topics included in this title are: text, history and theory; First Amendment methodology; advocacy of illegal conduct; fighting words, hostile audiences and offensive speech; obscenity and indecency; defamation, privacy and mental distress; commercial speech; new categories (racist speech, pornography and feminism); the public forum; expressive conduct; freedom of association and belief; electoral process; government-sponsored environments; freedom of the press; religion clauses; anti-establishment clause; and free exercize clause.

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9780314177360

Nutshell: First Amendment Law

One of over 150 titles in West's Law in a Nutshell series, this book is a comprehensive resource in an easy-to-read, concise format. With a title representing almost every area of law, Nutshells provide a solid understanding of a specific area of law and include references to important cases that have helped shaped the law. Topics included in this title are: text, history and theory; First Amendment methodology; advocacy of illegal conduct; fighting words, hostile audiences and offensive speech; obscenity and indecency; defamation, privacy and mental distress; commercial speech; new categories (racist speech, pornography and feminism); the public forum; expressive conduct; freedom of association and belief; electoral process; government-sponsored environments; freedom of the press; religion clauses; anti-establishment clause; and free exercize clause.

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