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• Introduction
• Early legal aid : national and Nashville : 1876-1965
• Establishing legal services of Nashville : 1965-1968
• Conflicts inside and out : 1969-1973
• Wide-ranging advocacy : 1973-1976
• We grow : 1976-1980
• Nasty, brutish, and long
• Mostly Drake
• Women lawyers challenge domestic violence
• Family dramas
• Young lawyers change juvenile law
• Bless this house
• Caveat emptor challenged
• Five women reform industrial insurance
• Hospitals, banks, automobile dealers, and the united way
• Doomsday 1981-1991
• It's an Ill wind that blows no good
• Healthcare and paying for it
• Social security disability
• Justice is everybody's business
• High hopes, doomsday II, and consolidation : 1992-2002
• A unique practice of law

"The story of the development and evolution of legal aid in Middle Tennessee from the late 1960s to the turn of the millennium"-- Provided by publisher

• 1. Creating a crime to create care
• 2. Framing and reframing
• 3. Laying the Ground
• 4. Punishing poverty
• 5. Deepening poverty and degrading justice
• 6. The Path In: From healthcare to child welfare to criminal systems
• 7. Criminalization as a road to care and the price you pay
• 8. Corrupting care
• 9. A path forward.
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At the height of the opiate epidemic, Tennessee lawmakers made it a crime for a pregnant woman to transmit narcotics to a fetus. They promised that charging new mothers with this crime would help them receive the treatment and support they often desperately need. In Prosecuting Poverty, Criminalizing Care, Wendy Bach describes the law's actual effect through meticulous examination of the cases of 120 women who were prosecuted for this crime. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative data, Bach demonstrates that both prosecuting 'fetal assault', and institutionalizing the all-too-common idea that criminalization is a road to care, lead at best to clinically dangerous and corrupt treatment, and at worst, and far more often, to an insidious smokescreen obscuring harsh punishment. Urgent, instructive, and humane, this retelling demands we stop criminalizing care and instead move towards robust and respectful systems that meet the real needs of families in poor communities.
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• Introduction
• Creating a crime to create care
• Defining the problem
• Historical and theoretical roots
• Prosecuting poverty
• Deepening poverty and degrading justice
• The path in : from health care to child welfare to criminal systems
• Criminalization as a road to care and the price you pay
• Corrupting care
• A path forward

"First the structure of this particular law: Technically speaking, the legislature created this crime, not by creating an entirely new crime but by enacting a law clarifying an existing criminal statute. This is how it worked: Like every other state, Tennessee makes assault a crime. It is an misdemeanor, which means that if you violate the statute, you can be incarcerated for no more than eleven months and twenty-nine days. Assault is defined, in Tennessee, as "[i]ntentionally, knowingly or recklessly caus[ing] bodily injury to another . . . ." You will notice, when you read this, that this particular language says nothing about pregnancy or a fetus. For prosecutors who might want a to charge a woman with assault because of her drug use during pregnancy, the absence of specific language about pregnancy or the fetus in the statute could cause legal problems. She could argue, in that case, that taking drugs while pregnant is not what the legislators meant by assault. Despite this possible legal problem, across the nation, and in Tennessee, women have been prosecuted for drug use during pregnancy for violating statutes all of which were not initially designed to criminalize this particular conduct. For example, women have been charged with assault, chemical endangerment of a minor, or child abuse, and the prosecutors in those cases have argued that in-utero drug exposure was included in the definitions of those crimes. But in many states, these charges led to legal disputes. The disputes in these cases often came down to the question of whether or not in-utero drug exposure was the kind of conduct that the legislature intended to make criminal when they wrote the law"-- Provided by publisher

• Preface
• Introduction to Texas legal research
• Case law research
• Court rules
• Jury instructions
• Briefs, records, and oral arguments
• Civil jury verdicts and settlements
• Statutory and constitutional research
• Tracking bills and compiling legislative histories
• Administrative regulations and decisions
• Attorneys general opinions
• Professional responsibility
• Secondary authority
• Texas practice materials
• Guide to legal citation.

"This practical manual covers not only traditional areas of legal research (such as cases, court rules, statutes, and regulations), but also includes research instruction for more practitioner-oriented items, including the following: jury instructions; civil jury verdicts and settlements; briefs, records, and oral arguments; attorneys general opinions; professional responsibility sources; and Texas practice materials. It updates the references to print and online sources throughout the text to reflect current editions, and instructs readers how to provide proper citations to legal materials according to the Bluebook (20th ed. 2015) and/or the Greenbook (14th ed. 2018). This book is intended for law students, attorneys who practice law in Texas, and the many thousands of additional individuals who engage in legal research in a practical setting."-- Provided by publisher.

• Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: TEXAS THE SOUTHERN STATE
• 1. The All-White Primary
• 2. After the Voting Rights Act
• 3. From Discrimination to Affirmative Action PART II: TEXAS THE WESTERN STATE
• 4. Railroads
• 5. Oil
• 6. School Finance
• 7. Immigration PART III: TEXAS AND CULTURAL ISSUES
• 8. Freedom of Speech and the Press
• 9. Freedom of and from Religion
• 10. Abortion PART IV: DISTINCTLY TEXAS
• 11. Prosecuting Consensual Adult Sex
• 12. Capital Punishment
• 13. Tom DeLay's Mid-Decade Redistricting Conclusion Notes List of Cases Index.
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Texas has created more constitutional law than any other state. In any classroom nationwide, any basic constitutional law course can be taught using nothing but Texas cases. That, however, understates the history and politics behind the cases. Beyond representing all doctrinal areas of constitutional law, Texas cases deal with the major issues of the nation. Leading legal scholar and Supreme Court historian Lucas A. Powe, Jr., charts the rich and pervasive development of Texas-inspired constitutional law. From voting rights to railroad regulations, school finance to capital punishment, poverty to civil liberties, this wide-ranging and eminently readable book provides a window into the relationship between constitutional litigation and ordinary politics at the Supreme Court, illuminating how all of the fiercest national divides over what the Constitution means took shape in Texas.
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• Introduction
• The all-white primary
• After the Voting Rights Act
• From discrimination to affirmative action
• Railroads
• Oil
• School finance
• Immigration
• Freedom of speech and the press
• Freedom of and from religion
• Abortion
• Prosecuting consensual adult sex
• Capital punishment
• Tom DeLay's mid-decade redistricting
• Conclusion.

Texas has created more constitutional law than any other state. In any classroom nationwide, any basic constitutional law course can be taught using nothing but Texas cases. That, however, understates the history and politics behind the cases. Beyond representing all doctrinal areas of constitutional law, Texas cases deal with the major issues of the nation. Leading legal scholar and Supreme Court historian Lucas A. Powe, Jr., charts the rich and pervasive development of Texas-inspired constitutional law. From voting rights to railroad regulations, school finance to capital punishment, poverty to civil liberties, this wide-ranging and eminently readable book provides a window into the relationship between constitutional litigation and ordinary politics at the Supreme Court, illuminating how all of the fiercest national divides over what the Constitution means took shape in Texas.
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• Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: TEXAS THE SOUTHERN STATE
• 1. The All-White Primary
• 2. After the Voting Rights Act
• 3. From Discrimination to Affirmative Action PART II: TEXAS THE WESTERN STATE
• 4. Railroads
• 5. Oil
• 6. School Finance
• 7. Immigration PART III: TEXAS AND CULTURAL ISSUES
• 8. Freedom of Speech and the Press
• 9. Freedom of and from Religion
• 10. Abortion PART IV: DISTINCTLY TEXAS
• 11. Prosecuting Consensual Adult Sex
• 12. Capital Punishment
• 13. Tom DeLay's Mid-Decade Redistricting Conclusion Notes List of Cases Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Texas has created more constitutional law than any other state. In any classroom nationwide, any basic constitutional law course can be taught using nothing but Texas cases. That, however, understates the history and politics behind the cases. Beyond representing all doctrinal areas of constitutional law, Texas cases deal with the major issues of the nation. Leading legal scholar and Supreme Court historian Lucas A. Powe, Jr., charts the rich and pervasive development of Texas-inspired constitutional law. From voting rights to railroad regulations, school finance to capital punishment, poverty to civil liberties, this wide-ranging and eminently readable book provides a window into the relationship between constitutional litigation and ordinary politics at the Supreme Court, illuminating how all of the fiercest national divides over what the Constitution means took shape in Texas.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Introduction
• The all-white primary
• After the Voting Rights Act
• From discrimination to affirmative action
• Railroads
• Oil
• School finance
• Immigration
• Freedom of speech and the press
• Freedom of and from religion
• Abortion
• Prosecuting consensual adult sex
• Capital punishment
• Tom DeLay's mid-decade redistricting
• Conclusion.

"Texas has created more constitutional law than any other state. In any classroom nationwide, any basic constitutional law course can be taught using nothing but Texas cases. That, however, understates the history and politics behind the cases. Beyond representing all doctrinal areas of constitutional law, Texas cases deal with the major issues of the nation. Leading legal scholar and Supreme Court historian Lucas A. Powe, Jr. charts the rich and pervasive development of Texas-inspired constitutional law. From voting rights to railroad regulations, or school finance to capital punishment, poverty to civil liberties, this wide-ranging and eminently readable book provides a window into the relationship between constitutional litigation and ordinary politics at the Supreme Court, illuminating how all of the fiercest national divides over what the Constitution means took shape in Texas"--Provided by publisher

In 1917, barely into his second term as governor of Texas, James E. Ferguson was impeached, convicted, and removed from office. Impeached provides a new examination of the rise and fall of Ferguson's political fortunes, offering a focused look at how battles over economic class, academic freedom, women's enfranchisement, and concentrated political power came to be directed toward one politician. Jessica Brannon-Wranosky and Bruce A. Glasrud have brought together top scholars to shine a light on this unique chapter in Texas history. An overview by John R. Lundberg offers a comprehensive survey of the impeachment process. Kay Reed Arnold then follows the Ferguson story into the halls of academia at the University of Texas-which Ferguson threatened to close-sparking a fierce response by faculty, alumni, students, and, especially, the Women's Committee for Good Government. Rachel M. Gunter further places the Ferguson impeachment in the context of the suffrage movement. Leah LaGrone Ochoa then explores Ferguson's hot-and-cold relationship with the Texas press, and Mark Stanley examines the impact of the impeachment on Texas politics in the decades that followed. Jessica Brannon-Wranosky concludes with an assessment of the historical memory of Ferguson's impeachment throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Impeached: The Removal of Texas Governor James E. Ferguson, reveals how power ebbed and flowed in twentieth-century Texas and includes several annotated primary documents critical to understanding the Ferguson impeachment.
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In these absorbing accounts of five court cases, Jason A. Gilmer offers intimate glimpses into Texas society in the time of slavery. Each story unfolds along boundaries - between men and women, slave and free, black and white, rich and poor, old and young - as rigid social orders are upset in ways that drive people into the courtroom., br> One case involves a settler in a rural county along the Colorado River, his thirty-year relationship with an enslaved woman, and the claims of their children as heirs. A case in East Texas arose after an owner refused to pay an overseer who had shot one of her slaves. Another case details how a free family of color carved out a life in the sparsely populated marshland of Southeast Texas, only to lose it all as waves of new settlers "civilized" the county. An enslaved woman in Galveston who was set free in her owner's will - and who got an uncommon level of support from her attorneys - is the subject of another case. In a Central Texas community, as another case recounts, citizens forced a Choctaw native into court in an effort to gain freedom for his slave, a woman who easily "passed" as white. The cases considered here include Gaines v. Thomas, Clark v. Honey, Brady v. Price, and Webster v. Heard. All of them pitted communal attitudes and values against the exigencies of daily life in an often harsh place. Here are real people in their own words, as gathered from trial records, various legal documents, and many other sources. People of many colors, from diverse backgrounds, weave their way in and out of the narratives. We come to know what mattered most to them - and where those personal concerns stood before the law.
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• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• CONTENTS
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction White Slaves and Ownership Rights in Central Texas
• CHAPTER ONE Sex, Race, and Family on the Gulf Coast
• CHAPTER TWO Slave Resistance and Class Conflict in the Redlands
• CHAPTER THREE A Free Family of Color on the Borderland
• CHAPTER FOUR Lawyers and Slaves on Galveston Island
• CONCLUSTION Telling Stories of Slavery and Freedom
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I

• JK
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• R
• S
• T
• V
• W

In these absorbing accounts of five court cases, Jason A. Gilmer offers intimate glimpses into Texas society in the time of slavery. Each story unfolds along boundaries - between men and women, slave and free, black and white, rich and poor, old and young - as rigid social orders are upset in ways that drive people into the courtroom., br> One case involves a settler in a rural county along the Colorado River, his thirty-year relationship with an enslaved woman, and the claims of their children as heirs. A case in East Texas arose after an owner refused to pay an overseer who had shot one of her slaves. Another case details how a free family of color carved out a life in the sparsely populated marshland of Southeast Texas, only to lose it all as waves of new settlers "civilized" the county. An enslaved woman in Galveston who was set free in her owner's will - and who got an uncommon level of support from her attorneys - is the subject of another case. In a Central Texas community, as another case recounts, citizens forced a Choctaw native into court in an effort to gain freedom for his slave, a woman who easily "passed" as white. The cases considered here include Gaines v. Thomas, Clark v. Honey, Brady v. Price, and Webster v. Heard. All of them pitted communal attitudes and values against the exigencies of daily life in an often harsh place. Here are real people in their own words, as gathered from trial records, various legal documents, and many other sources. People of many colors, from diverse backgrounds, weave their way in and out of the narratives. We come to know what mattered most to them - and where those personal concerns stood before the law.
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• Introduction. White slaves and ownership rights in Central Texas
• Sex, race, and family on the Gulf Coast
• Slave resistance and class conflict in the Redlands
• A free family of color on the borderland
• Lawyers and slaves on Galveston Island
• Telling stories of slavery and freedom.

In these absorbing accounts of five court cases, Jason A. Gilmer offers intimate glimpses into Texas society in the time of slavery. Each story unfolds along boundaries - between men and women, slave and free, black and white, rich and poor, old and young - as rigid social orders are upset in ways that drive people into the courtroom., br> One case involves a settler in a rural county along the Colorado River, his thirty-year relationship with an enslaved woman, and the claims of their children as heirs. A case in East Texas arose after an owner refused to pay an overseer who had shot one of her slaves. Another case details how a free family of color carved out a life in the sparsely populated marshland of Southeast Texas, only to lose it all as waves of new settlers "civilized" the county. An enslaved woman in Galveston who was set free in her owner's will - and who got an uncommon level of support from her attorneys - is the subject of another case. In a Central Texas community, as another case recounts, citizens forced a Choctaw native into court in an effort to gain freedom for his slave, a woman who easily "passed" as white. The cases considered here include Gaines v. Thomas, Clark v. Honey, Brady v. Price, and Webster v. Heard. All of them pitted communal attitudes and values against the exigencies of daily life in an often harsh place. Here are real people in their own words, as gathered from trial records, various legal documents, and many other sources. People of many colors, from diverse backgrounds, weave their way in and out of the narratives. We come to know what mattered most to them - and where those personal concerns stood before the law.
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• * Foreword by James W. Marquart * Acknowledgments * Introduction * Determinate Sentencing and the Texas Youth Commission: A Timeline
• *1. Origins and Discoveries
• *2. The Determinate Sentencing Act in Texas
• *3. The Sheep That Got Lost
• *4. Doing Time in the Texas Youth Commission
• *5. Another Second Chance
• *6. The Burden of Second Chances
• *7. Three Decades Later
• *8. The Last Word * Notes * Index.
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What should be done with minors who kill, maim, defile, and destroy the lives of others? The state of Texas deals with some of its most serious and violent youthful offenders through "determinate sentencing, " a unique sentencing structure that blends parts of the juvenile and adult justice systems. Once adjudicated via determinate sentencing, offenders are first incarcerated in the Texas Youth Commission (TYC). As they approach age eighteen, they are either transferred to the Texas prison system to serve the remainder of their original determinate sentence or released from TYC into Texas's communities. The first long-term study of determinate sentencing in Texas, Lost Causes examines the social and delinquent histories, institutionalization experiences, and release and recidivism outcomes of more than 3,000 serious and violent juvenile offenders who received such sentences between 1987 and 2011. The authors seek to understand the process, outcomes, and consequences of determinate sentencing, which gave serious and violent juvenile offenders one more chance to redeem themselves or to solidify their place as the next generation of adult prisoners in Texas. The book's findings-that about 70 percent of offenders are released to the community during their most crime-prone years instead of being transferred to the Texas prison system and that about half of those released continue to reoffend for serious crimes-make Lost Causes crucial reading for all students and practitioners of juvenile and criminal justice.
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• The research process and legal analysis
• Judicial opinions
• Constitutions, statutes, and procedural and ethical rules
• Researching legislative history
• Researching administrative law
• Updating research
• Researching secondary authorities
• Research strategies and organization
• Where to find Tennessee law.

• The research process and legal analysis
• Research techniques
• Secondary sources
• Constitutional law
• Statutory research
• Bill tracking and legislative history
• Administrative law
• Court systems and judicial opinions
• Searching for cases
• Local government research
• Citators.

• Chapter One: Uncovering Racial Purposes in Voting Rights Politics Chapter Two: In Search of Racism Chapter Three: Racism, the Arlington Heights Factos, and Latinos Chapter Four: Latino Identity, Whiteness, and Dual-Race Theory Chapter Five: "Do Citizens Select Legislators or Do Legislators Select Their Constituents?" Chapter Six: There is a Method to This Madness Chapter Seven: Strategic Racism Uncovered.
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This volume explores the role race and racism played in the Texas redistricting process and the creation and passage of the state's Voter Identification Law in 2011. The author puts forth research techniques designed to uncover racism and racist intentions even in the face of denials by the public policy decision makers involved. In addition to reviewing the redistricting history of the state, this book also provides an analysis of court decisions concerning the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution, the Voting Rights Act, and a thorough discussion of the Shelby County decision. The author brings together scholarly research and the analysis of significant Supreme Court decisions focusing on race to discuss Texas' election policy process. The core of the book centers on two federal court trials where both the state's congressional, house redistricting efforts, and the Voter ID Bill were found to violate the Voting Rights Act. This is the first book that speaks specifically to the effects of electoral politics and Latinos. The author develops new ground in racial political studies calling for movement beyond the 'dual-race' theoretical models that have been used by both the academy and the courts in looking at the effects of race on the public policy process. The author concludes that the historically tense race relations between Anglos and Latinos in Texas unavoidably affected both the redistricting process and the creation and design of the Voter ID Bill.
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• Chapter One: Uncovering Racial Purposes in Voting Rights Politics Chapter Two: In Search of Racism Chapter Three: Racism, the Arlington Heights Factos, and Latinos Chapter Four: Latino Identity, Whiteness, and Dual-Race Theory Chapter Five: "Do Citizens Select Legislators or Do Legislators Select Their Constituents?" Chapter Six: There is a Method to This Madness Chapter Seven: Strategic Racism Uncovered.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

This volume explores the role race and racism played in the Texas redistricting process and the creation and passage of the state's Voter Identification Law in 2011. The author puts forth research techniques designed to uncover racism and racist intentions even in the face of denials by the public policy decision makers involved. In addition to reviewing the redistricting history of the state, this book also provides an analysis of court decisions concerning the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution, the Voting Rights Act, and a thorough discussion of the Shelby County decision. The author brings together scholarly research and the analysis of significant Supreme Court decisions focusing on race to discuss Texas' election policy process. The core of the book centers on two federal court trials where both the state's congressional, house redistricting efforts, and the Voter ID Bill were found to violate the Voting Rights Act. This is the first book that speaks specifically to the effects of electoral politics and Latinos. The author develops new ground in racial political studies calling for movement beyond the 'dual-race' theoretical models that have been used by both the academy and the courts in looking at the effects of race on the public policy process. The author concludes that the historically tense race relations between Anglos and Latinos in Texas unavoidably affected both the redistricting process and the creation and design of the Voter ID Bill.
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