1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785088803321

Autore

Purcell Edward A

Titolo

Litigation and inequality [[electronic resource] ] : federal diversity jurisdiction in industrial America, 1870-1958 / / Edward A. Purcell, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1992

ISBN

0-19-771987-2

1-280-52602-5

0-19-536090-7

1-4294-0752-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (459 p.)

Disciplina

347.30753

347.7312347.30712

Soggetti

Jurisdiction - Social aspects - United States - History

Civil procedure - Social aspects - United States - History

Courts - United States - History

Actions and defenses - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1. Origins of a Social Litigation System; 2. The Social Structure of Party Inequality and the Informal Legal Process; 3. The Federal Common Law; 4. The Battle for Forum Control, I: The Jurisdictional Amount and the Limits of Corporate Liability; 5. The Battle for Forum Control, II: Joinder and the Limits of the System; 6. Removal and the Problems of Local Prejudice: Three Perspectives on the System; 7. Contraction and Evolution: The System After 1910; 8. The Rise of Interstate Forum Shopping; 9. Tactical Escalation in Insurance Litigation; 10. Disintegration

11. Retrospective: History, Procedure, and the Social Role of the Federal CourtsNotes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

Explores the relationship between legal and social change through a study of American litigation practice. The text examines changing litigation patterns in suits between individuals and corporations over tort claims for personal injuries and contract claims for insurance



benefits.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910694102903321

Titolo

Celebrating 50 years : the Eisenhower interstate highway system : hearing before the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit, and Pipelines of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, June 27, 2006

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (v, 62 p.) : ill

Soggetti

Interstate Highway System - History

Roads - United States

Interstate Highway System - Anniversaries, etc

Roads - United States - Anniversaries, etc

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia