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• The research process
• Researching secondary authority
• Researching constitutions
• Researching statutes and court rules
• Researching legislative history
• Finding cases in reporters and online
• Researching cases in digests and online
• Researching administrative law
• Researching Arizona tribal law
• Updating research

"Arizona Legal Research was written for first-year law students, paralegals, or anyone who wants to know the basics of how to conduct legal research in Arizona. The book explains the process of legal research as a researcher would approach a problem "on the job." Specifically, Arizona Legal Research explains how to research Arizona secondary sources, constitutional law, statutes (including legislative history), administrative law, and cases. Arizona Legal Research also includes a chapter covering the basics of researching Indian law, which is an important subject to Arizona legal practitioners. There are several unique aspects that make Arizona Legal Research easy to use. First, the initial chapter explains the overall research process, including how to choose between electronic and book research and how to formulate a search. Second, each chapter integrates electronic and book sources and includes concise, helpful outlines of research steps for each source, as well as short, illustrative excerpts of Arizona law. Each chapter also directs researchers to free websites for legal research. Finally, one appendix contains a glossary of important legal research terms, and a second appendix reviews basic citation rules"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction
• Counterfeit narratives : the Peralta land grant archives and the forging of the West
• Searching for Sofia : race, gender, and authenticity at the 1895 court of private land claims
• Southwest speculation : newspaper coverage of the Peralta land grant
• Counterfeit nostalgia : William Atherton Dupuy's the Baron of the Colorados (1940)
• The Baron is like a battleground : Samuel Fuller's the Baron of Arizona (1950)
• Epilogue: Forgetting the Peralta land grant.

In Forging Arizona Anita Huizar-Hernandez looks back at a bizarre nineteenth-century land grant scheme that tests the limits of how ideas about race, citizenship, and national expansion are forged. During the aftermath of the U.S.-Mexico War and the creation of the current border, a con artist named James Addison Reavis falsified archives around the world to pass his wife off as the heiress to an enormous Spanish land grant so that they could claim ownership of a substantial portion of the newly-acquired Southwestern territories. Drawing from a wide variety of sources including court records, newspapers, fiction, and film, Anita Huizar-Hernandez argues that the creation, collapse, and eventual forgetting of Reavis's scam reveal the mechanisms by which narratives, real and imaginary, forge borders. An important addition to extant scholarship on the border U.S Southwest, Forging Arizona recovers a forgotten case that reminds readers that the borders that divide nations, identities, and even true from false are only as stable as the narratives that define them.
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• Introduction
• A brief history of marijuana legislation in Arizona / Jay Tiftickjian & James Nesci
• The Arizona Medical Marijuana Act (AMMA) / James Nesci
• Business regulation and the enforcement process for Arizona medical marijuana law / James Nesci
• Banking and taxation for the marijuana industry / Jim Marty, Kyle Walker, and James Nesci
• Land use, real estate, and landlord/tenant issues / James Nesci & Bill E. Kyriagis
• Federal controlled substances laws and marijuana / Andres R. Guevara & James Nesci
• Arizona criminal marijuana statutes and penalties / James Nesci
• Driving, boating, & flying under the influence of marijuana / James Nesci
• Drug recognition evaluation / James Nesci
• Pharmacology of marijuana / James T. O'Donnell and James J. O'Donnell
• Under the influence of marijuana / John P. Bederka and Warren Cooper
• Are TCH concentrations appropriate for presuming psychomotor impairment? / Paul Armentant & James Nesci
• Laboratory testing for THC and other drugs / James Nesci, John L. Lombardi & Jeremy Brehmer.

"The burgeoning field of marijuana-related litigation in Arizona touches many areas of law, from criminal prosecution, to motor vehicle accidents, to real estate transactions, to business regulation, and to taxation issues. The medicolegal aspects of marijuana are complex topics because so many different components are present in marijuana-related criminal, civil, and administrative litigation. Forensic marijuana analysis is a new area for most attorneys. It is extremely important that THC analyses be preformed accurately and correctly and that the results are properly interpreted. Often, results are deemed meaningless because samples are mishandled, equipment is incorrectly calibrated, or results are incorrectly reported. The wealth of information presented in this book makes it an invaluable resource when investigating and litigating cases involving marijuana."-- Provided by publisher.

• The research process
• Researching secondary authority
• Researching constitutions
• Researching statutes and court rules
• Researching legislative history
• Finding cases in reporters and online
• Researching cases in digests and online
• Researching administrative law
• Researching Arizona tribal law
• Updating research
• Appendix A. Legal citation
• Appendix B. Glossary of legal research terms.

"This research book includes instructions on both print and electronic sources... Because each researcher approaches the research process differently, this book offers instructions on all the various ways to find legal information."-- Page xix.

• Introduction
• Three lucky Swedes and one corrupt judge
• Wickersham chafes under Eagle's slow pace
• George Grigsby's biggest damned hat
• Becoming Norman Banfield
• W.C. Arnold : territorial Alaska's most powerful lobbyist
• Mildred Hermann and Dorothy Haaland : independent thinking women
• Hellenthal chooses Anchorage
• Tales of the silver fox
• Judge George Folta : license to hunt
• Remembering Judge Folta and Ketchikan's red light district
• Influence and discipline : policing territorial lawyers
• Buell Nesbett : navigating territorial waters and getting soaked
• Anchorage lawyers : creating a better system
• Rocky seas : the great Alaska court-bar fight
• Nesbett's surrogate
• Grace Berg Schaible and the Tanana Valley bar
• More frontier stories
• Afterword.

Alaska history from the days before statehood is rich in stories of colorful characters prospectors, settlers, heroes, and criminals. And right alongside them were judges and lawyers, working first to establish the rule of law in the territory, then, later, laying the groundwork for statehood. The Biggest Damned Hat presents a fascinating collection of stories ranging from the gold rush to the 1950s. Built on interviews and oral histories from more than fifty lawyers who worked in Alaska before 1959, and buttressed by research into legal history, the book offers a brilliantly multifaceted portrait of law in the territory from laying the groundwork for strong civil and criminal law to helping to secure mining and fishing rights to the Alaska Court-Bar fight, which pitted Alaska's community of lawyers against its nascent Supreme Court. Bringing to life a time long past when some of the best lawyers had little formal legal education The Biggest Damned Hat fills in a crucial part of the story of Alaska's history.
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• The research process and legal analysis
• Secondary sources and practice materials
• Constitutions
• Case law
• Statutes and ordinances
• Legislation and legislative history
• Administrative and executive law
• Court rules
• Updating your research
• Essentials of legal citation
• Resources for Arkansas legal research.

"The second edition of Arkansas Legal Research provides updated coverage of online and print sources of state law. It describes and guides the research process for fundamental sources such as the Arkansas Constitution, case law, statutes, ordinances, legislation, and administrative materials, and it demonstrates not only the overall process of legal research, but also the value of using secondary sources to begin and to expand that process. Each chapter has been revised to include current information about online sources of law, including free materials on the Internet, Fastcase, Lexis, Westlaw, and Bloomberg. A new chapter on updating shows users how to ensure that they're using the most current versions of enacted law. This chapter not only focuses on, but also compares, the operation of full-feature online citators such as KeyCite and Shepards and the simpler updating tools for case law used by Fastcase and BCite. The second edition adds two new appendices: The first addresses the essentials of citing specific items of primary and secondary law, comparing and contrasting citation formats used in practice with those used in academic writing. The second appendix furnishes titles and URLs to enhance the research of Arkansas-specific legal topics."-- Provided by publisher.

• Preface;
• Chapter 1. "A Hegemonic Function of the Law": An Introduction;
• Chapter 2. "Peculiar Province and Duty": Organization, Procedures, and Trends in the Early Arkansas Courts;
• Chapter 3. Finding "Repose" from the "Nagging Concern" of Title Insecurity: Cases, Controversies, and Conflicts Relating to Land Titles;
• Chapter 4. "Coon Skins and Peltry": Cases, Controversies, and Conflicts Related to Banks and Banking;
• Chapter 5. "Pervasive Localism": Cases, Controversies, and Conflicts Relating to Transportation.

• Chapter 6. "Inspecting the Negro Foot": Cases, Controversies, and Conflicts Relating to Slaves and Slavery
• Chapter 7. "Affording Peace and Quiet": Case, Controversies, and Conflicts Relating to Family Law and Family Property;
• Chapter 8. "The Key to Republican Economic Morality": Cases, Controversies, and Conflicts Relating to Debt and Contracts;
• Chapter 9. "A Stronghold of Legal Puritanism": Cases, Controversies, and Conflicts Involving Criminal Law and Procedure.

• Chapter 10. "Rights of Belligerents": Cases, Controversies, and Conflicts during the War Years and in the War's Aftermath, 1861-1867
• Chapter 11. "Usurpation and Treachery": Cases, Controversies, and Conflicts in the Arkansas Supreme Court during Reconstruction, 1868-1874;
• Chapter 12. "Distinguishing the Righteous from the Roguish": Summary and Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

During the period from 1836 to 1874, the legal system in the new state of Arkansas developed amid huge social change. While the legislature could, and did, determine what issues were considered of importance to the populace, the Arkansas Supreme Court determined the efficacy of legislation in cases involving land titles, banks, transportation, slavery, family law, property, debt, contract, criminal law, and procedure. Distinguishing the Righteous from the Roguish examines the court's decisions in this era and shows how Arkansas, as a rural slave-holding state, did not follow the transformational patterns typical of some other states during the nineteenth century. Rather than using the law to promote broad economic growth and encourage social change, the Arkansas court attempted to accommodate the interests of the elite class by preserving the institution of slavery. The ideology of paternalism is reflected in the decisions of the court, and Looney shows how social and political stability-an emphasis on preserving the status quo of the so-called "righteous"-came at the expense of broader economic development.
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• "A hegemonic function of the law" : an introduction
• "Peculiar province and duty" : organization, procedures and trends in the early Arkansas courts
• Finding "repose" from the "nagging concern of title insecurity" : cases, controversies, and conflicts relating to land titles
• "Coon skins and peltry" : cases, controversies, and conflicts relating to transportation
• "Inspecting the Negro foot" : cases, controversies, and conflicts relating to slaves and slavery
• "Affording peace and quiet" : cases, controversies, and conflicts relating to family law and family property
• "The key to Republican economic morality" : cases, controversies, and conflicts relating to debt and contracts
• "A stronghold of legal puritanism" : cases, controversies, and conflicts relating involving criminal law and procedure
• "Rights of belligerents" : cases, controversies, and conflicts during the war years and in the war's aftermath, 1861-1867
• "Usurpation and treachery" : cases, controversies, and conflicts in the Arkansas Supreme Court during Reconstruction, 1868-1874
• "Distinguishing the righteous from the roguish" : summary and conclusions.

During the period from 1836 to 1874, the legal system in the new state of Arkansas developed amid huge social change. While the legislature could, and did, determine what issues were considered of importance to the populace, the Arkansas Supreme Court determined the efficacy of legislation in cases involving land titles, banks, transportation, slavery, family law, property, debt, contract, criminal law, and procedure. Distinguishing the Righteous from the Roguish examines the court's decisions in this era and shows how Arkansas, as a rural slave-holding state, did not follow the transformational patterns typical of some other states during the nineteenth century. Rather than using the law to promote broad economic growth and encourage social change, the Arkansas court attempted to accommodate the interests of the elite class by preserving the institution of slavery. The ideology of paternalism is reflected in the decisions of the court, and Looney shows how social and political stability-an emphasis on preserving the status quo of the so-called "righteous"-came at the expense of broader economic development.
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• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• 1. Introduction: The structure of the United States district courts in Arkansas - Richard S. Arnold and Michael B. Heister
• I. District of Arkansas (1836-51): 2. Benjamin Johnson (1836-49) - Lynn Foster
• II. Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas (1851-71): 3. Daniel Ringo (1850-61) - L. Scott Stafford
• III. Eastern District of Arkansas (1871-1969): 4. Henry Clay Caldwell (1864-90) - Richard S. Arnold and George C. Freeman III
• 5. John Apps Williams (1890-1900) - Henry Woods
• 6. Jacob Trieber (1901-27) - Gerald W. Heaney
• 7. John Ellis Martineau (1928-37) - Stephen M. Reasoner
• 8. Thomas Clark Trimble III (1937-57) - Elsijane Trimble Roy
• 9. Gordon Elmo Young (1959-69) - David Young;
• IV. Western District of Arkansas (1871-1967): 10. William Story (1871-74) - Frances Mitchell Ross
• 11. Isaac Charles Parker (1875-96) - Morton Gitelman
• 12. John Henry Rogers (1896-1911) - Morton Gitelman
• 13. Frank Abijah Youmans (1911-32) - Morton Gitelman
• 14. Heartsill Ragon (1933-40) - Heartsill Ragon III
• 15. John Elvis Miller (1941-67) - Susan Scafidi, Susie Margaret Ross, and Bradley J. Nicholson
• V. Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas (1939-75): 16. Harry Jacob Lemley (1939-58) - Susan Webber Wright
• 17. Jesse Smith Henley (1959-75) - Susan Webber Wright
• Notes
• Contributors
• Index.

The essays in United States District Courts and Judges of Arkansas, 1836- 1960 one each for a judge and his decisions-come together to form a chronological history of the Arkansas judicial system as it grew from its beginnings in a frontier state to a modern institution. The book begins with statehood and continues with Congress'sdecision to expand jurisdiction of the original 1836 District Court of Arkansas to include the vast Indian Territory to the west. The territory's formidable size and rampant lawlessness brought in an overwhelming number of cases. The situation was only somewhat mitigated in 1851, when Congress split the state into eastern and western districts, which were still served by just one judge who travelled between the two courts. A new judgeship for the Western District was created in 1871, and new seats for that court were established, but it wasn't until 1896 that Congress finally ended all jurisdiction of Arkansas's Western District Court over the Indian Territory. Contributors to this collection include judges, practicing attorneys, academics, and thoughtful and informed family members who reveal how the judges made decisions on issues involving election laws, taxes, civil rights, railroads, liquor and prohibition, quack medicine, gang- sters, bankruptcy, personal injury, the draft and Selective Service, school desegregation, prisons, and more. United States District Courts and Judges of Arkansas, 1836-1960 will be of value to anyone interested in Arkansas history-particularly Arkansas legal and judicial history as it relates to the local and national issues that came before these judges. This project was supported in part by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas and the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas.
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• Developments of the enclosure movement in Alabama : disrupting the free roaming / Warren Hoffman
• Flush times in the chancery : a brief note on the history of equity and trusts / Paul Rand
• The militarization of the University of Alabama / Helen Eckinger
• Economic growth in Blount County/Onteonta : attorneys, companies, and cases / Eddie Lowe
• Pioneers in Alabama legal history : a firm understanding of the history of Alabama / Mike Dodson
• A man in a boy's coat : the evolution of Alabama's constitutions / Courtney Cooper
• The uniform beneath the robe / Deirdra Drinkard
• The "breathrough verdict" : Strange v. Slate / Ellie Campbell.

"[This book] is an anthology of research papers that explore a range of topics from the rich legal history of the state of Alabama and its influential legal and judicial figures. Contemporary photography and mapwork are featured as well...[This book] presents eight new essays on Alabama legal history from the pre-Civil War era through the Civil Rights era. These...chapters survey a broad spectrum, from economics, race, education, and professional concerns of lawyers, to plain old legal doctrine, to show how those variables affected the state's development. These essays reveal why we need intensive studies of American law at the state and county level in the 19th and 20th centuries. For they demonstrate that law is embedded in our culture. These invite many other studies, from the county level on up, in other states, to demonstrate how law lies at the center of nation's history."-- Provided by publisher.

• The research process
• Researching secondary authority
• Researching constitutions
• Researching statutes and court rules
• Researching legislative history
• Finding cases in reporters and online
• Researching cases in digests and online
• Researching administrative law
• Researching Arizona tribal law
• Updating research.

• The history of the Arizona constitution
• The Arizona constitution and commentary : Preamble -- Article I : State boundaries
• Article II : Declaration of rights
• Article III : Distribution of powers
• Article IV : Legislative department
• Article V : Executive department
• Article VI : Judicial department
• Article VI. I : Commission on Judicial Conduct
• Article VII : Suffrage and elections
• Article VIII : Removal from office
• Article IX : Public debt, revenue, and taxation
• Article X : State and school lands
• Article XI : Education
• Article XII : Counties
• Article XIII : Municipal corporations
• Article XIV : Corporations other than municipal
• Article XV : The corporation commission
• Article XVI : Militia
• Article XVII : Water rights
• Article XVIII : Labor
• Article XIX : Mines
• Article XX : Ordinance
• Article XXI : Mode of amending
• Article XXII : Schedule and miscellaneous
• Article XXIII : Prohibition
• Article XXIV : Prohibition
• Article XXV : Right to work
• Article XXVI : Right of licensed real estate brokers and salesmen to prepare instruments incident to property transactions
• Article XXVII : Regulation of public health, safety and welfare
• Article XXVIII : English as the official language
• Article XXIX : Public retirement systems
• Article XXX : Marriage.

In The Arizona State Constitution, John D. Leshy provides a comprehensive history of Arizona's constitutional development. Adopted at the height of the progressive movement, the Constitution contains many progressive innovations. Leshy describes these along with the dramatic changes the state has undergone in subsequent decades. He also includes a section-by-section commentary which crisply discusses the evolution and interpretation of each section, including significant court decisions. Thoroughly updated to reflect amendments and court cases through the fall of 2012, the second edition of The Arizona State Constitution is an essential reference guide for readers who seek a rich account of Arizona's constitutional evolution. The Oxford Commentaries on the State Constitutions of the United States is an important series that reflects a renewed international interest in constitutional history and provides expert insight into each of the 50 state constitutions. Each volume in this innovative series contains a historical overview of the state's constitutional development, a section-by-section analysis of its current constitution, and a comprehensive guide to further research. Under the expert editorship of Professor G. Alan Tarr, Director of the Center on State Constitutional Studies at Rutgers University, this series provides essential reference tools for understanding state constitutional law. Books in the series can be purchased individually or as part of a complete set, giving readers unmatched access to these important political documents.
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• Summary
• Recommendations
• Methodology
• Background: Landlord-tenant law in Arkansas
• The crime of not paying rent
• An abusive law
• Bad drafting and inconsistent application
• Criminalizing economic hardship
• Violations of legal and human rights norms
• Fixing the law
• Acknowledgements.

"This 44-page report tells the stories of Arkansas tenants who were dragged into criminal court for transgressions that would not be a crime in any other US state. Other tenants who did not violate the law have faced charges because prosecutors acted on specious claims by landlords. Several of the tenants interviewed for this report were confronted at home or at work by police officers who had warrants for their arrest. One woman was berated in open court by a district judge, who compared her to a bank robber."--Publisher's website.

• The federal relationship to alaska natives
• Aboriginal title
• Reservations
• Native allotments and townsites
• ANCSA: the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
• History of native services in Alaska
• Native entitlement to services
• Subsistence in Alaska
• Modern Alaska native governments and organizations
• Sovereignty: the Alaska native claims to self-government

Now in its third edition, Alaska Natives and American Laws is still the only work of its kind, canvassing federal law and its history as applied to the indigenous peoples of Alaska. Covering 1867 through 2011, the authors offer lucid explanations of the often-tangled history of policy and law as applied to Alaska's first peoples. Divided conceptually into four broad themes of indigenous rights to land, subsistence, services, and sovereignty, the book offers a thorough and balanced analysis of the evolution of these rights in the forty-ninth state

• The federal relationship to alaska natives
• Aboriginal title
• Reservations
• Native allotments and townsites
• ANCSA: the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
• History of native services in Alaska
• Native entitlement to services
• Subsistence in Alaska
• Modern Alaska native governments and organizations
• Sovereignty: the Alaska native claims to self-government.

Now in its third edition, "Alaska Natives and American Laws" is still the only work of its kind, canvassing federal law and its history as applied to the indigenous peoples of Alaska. Covering 1867 through 2011, the authors offer lucid explanations of the often-tangled history of policy and law as applied to Alaska's first peoples. Divided conceptually into four broad themes of indigenous rights to land, subsistence, services, and sovereignty, the book offers a thorough and balanced analysis of the evolution of these rights. This edition brings the volume fully up to date, with consideration of the broader evolution of indigenous rights in international law.
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• The federal relationship to alaska natives
• Aboriginal title
• Reservations
• Native allotments and townsites
• ANCSA: the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
• History of native services in Alaska
• Native entitlement to services
• Subsistence in Alaska
• Modern Alaska native governments and organizations
• Sovereignty: the Alaska native claims to self-government.

Now in its third edition, "Alaska Natives and American Laws" is still the only work of its kind, canvassing federal law and its history as applied to the indigenous peoples of Alaska. Covering 1867 through 2011, the authors offer lucid explanations of the often-tangled history of policy and law as applied to Alaska's first peoples. Divided conceptually into four broad themes of indigenous rights to land, subsistence, services, and sovereignty, the book offers a thorough and balanced analysis of the evolution of these rights. This edition brings the volume fully up to date, with consideration of the broader evolution of indigenous rights in international law.
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• The centennial of Arizona's Constitution : an introduction / Paul Bender
• Never just a footnote : relying on the Arizona Constitution to protect the rights and liberties of Arizona's people / David L. Abney
• The Arizona Supreme Court and the Arizona Constitution : the first hundred years / Paul Bender
• Celebrating the centennial : a century of Arizona Supreme Court constitutional interpretation / Rebecca White Berch, Megan K. Scanlon, & Jared L. Sutton
• Vindicating the Arizona Constitution's promise of freedom / Clint Bolick
• What didn't make it into the Arizona Constitution / Paul F. Eckstein, Jerica L. Peters, & D. Andrew Gaona
• The powers of initiative and referendum : keeping the Arizona Constitution's promise of direct democracy / Lisa T. Hauser
• 100 years of keeping the trust : the historic role of the judiciary in protecting Arizona's state land trust / Timothy M. Hogan & Joy E. Herr-Cardillo.