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• Research process and legal analysis
• Planning, documenting, and organizing research
• Research techniques
• Secondary sources
• Statutes, court rules, and municipal ordinances
• Judicial opinions
• Researching judicial opinions
• Administrative law
• Constitutions
• Legislative history
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"Georgia Legal Research was written for legal researchers at various levels, including first-year law students, paralegals, and Georgia practitioners. The book explains research skills and strategies with a focus on Georgia sources. The book also includes instruction on legal writing and citations"-- Provided by publisher

Fifty years ago Georgia chose how it would use the natural environment of its coast. The General Assembly passed the Coastal Marshlands Protection Act in 1970, and, surprisingly, Lester Maddox, a governor who had built a conservative reputation by defending segregation, signed it into law. With this book, Paul Bolster narrates the politics of the times and brings to life the political leaders and the coalition of advocates who led Georgia to pass the most comprehensive protection of marshlands along the Atlantic seaboard. Saving the Georgia Coast brings to light the intriguing and colorful characters who formed that coalition: wealthy island owners, hunters and fishermen, people who made their home on the coast, courageous political leaders, garden-club members, clean-water protectors, and journalists. It explores how that political coalition came together behind governmental leaders and traces the origins of environmental organizations that continue to impact policy today. Saving the Georgia Coast enhances the reader's understanding of the many steps it takes for a bill to become a law. Bolster's account reviews state policy toward the coast today, giving the reader an opportunity to compare yesterday to the present. Current demands on the coastal environment are different-including spaceports and sea rise from climate change-but the political pressures to generate new wealth and new jobs, or to perch a home on the edge of the sea, are no different than fifty years ago. Saving the Georgia Coast spotlights the past and present decisions needed to balance human desires with the limits of what nature has to offer.
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Fifty years ago Georgia chose how it would use the natural environment of its coast. The General Assembly passed the Coastal Marshlands Protection Act in 1970, and, surprisingly, Lester Maddox, a governor who had built a conservative reputation by defending segregation, signed it into law. With this book, Paul Bolster narrates the politics of the times and brings to life the political leaders and the coalition of advocates who led Georgia to pass the most comprehensive protection of marshlands along the Atlantic seaboard. Saving the Georgia Coast brings to light the intriguing and colorful characters who formed that coalition: wealthy island owners, hunters and fishermen, people who made their home on the coast, courageous political leaders, garden-club members, clean-water protectors, and journalists. It explores how that political coalition came together behind governmental leaders and traces the origins of environmental organizations that continue to impact policy today. Saving the Georgia Coast enhances the reader's understanding of the many steps it takes for a bill to become a law. Bolster's account reviews state policy toward the coast today, giving the reader an opportunity to compare yesterday to the present. Current demands on the coastal environment are different-including spaceports and sea rise from climate change-but the political pressures to generate new wealth and new jobs, or to perch a home on the edge of the sea, are no different than fifty years ago. Saving the Georgia Coast spotlights the past and present decisions needed to balance human desires with the limits of what nature has to offer.
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• Founding of Georgia-1783
• 1784-1870
• 1870-1950
• 1951-present
• Miscellaneous
• Lists and charts.

The last written history of the Augusta, Georgia, Judicial Circuit was in 1890. Wade Padgett has expanded upon that history and examines the judicial history of the state of Georgia from its inception as a Royal Colony through the 2016 elections. However, this work is not a dry recitation of judicial history in Georgia but is brought to life by focusing on the men and women who have served in various judicial positions within the Circuit. Special attention has been devoted to genealogical facts of each of the office-holders.Included is an architectural history of the courthouses of Richmond, Columbia, and Burke counties in Georgia. Filled with facts and stories unique to Augusta, the book is also rich in colonial history.
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By state law, graduates of public colleges and universities in Georgia must demonstrate proficiency with both the U.S. and Georgia constitutions. This widely used textbook helps students to satisfy that requirement, either in courses or by examination.

By state law, graduates of public colleges and universities in Georgia must demonstrate proficiency with both the U.S. and Georgia constitutions. This widely used textbook helps students to satisfy that requirement, either in courses or by examination. This brief and affordable study aid begins with a discussion of the ways that state and local governments, in providing services and allocating funds, affect our daily lives. Subsequent chapters are devoted to the development of our federal system and the importance of constitutions in establishing authority, distributing power, and formalising procedures how the various state constitutions differ from each other, even as they all complement the U.S. Constitution how constitutions in Georgia have been amended or replaced Georgia's governmental institutions at the state, county, and city levels elections in Georgia, including the basic ground rules for holding primaries, general elections, and runoffsKey terms and concepts are covered throughout the book, as well as important court cases at the national and state level. In addition, helpful lists, diagrams, and tables summarise and compare such information as the structure of Georgia's court system the number of constitutions each of the fifty states has had, the number of times each state's constitution has been amended, and the length of each state's current constitution various procedures used by the states to amend their constitutions Georgia's ten constitutions, with highlights of their major changes or features the number of amendments voted on in Georgia from 1984 to 2012 the executive branch officials elected by the public across states the constitutional boards and commissions in Georgia, with details on the methods by which members are chosen the number and types of local governments in Georgia since 1952 including counties, municipalities, school districts, and special districts the major federal cases in which Georgia has been a party, on issues of discrimination, representation, freedom of speech and the press, the accused or convicted of crimes, and the right to privacy rights and liberties, and how constitutions guarantee and protect them.
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• Foreword / Ray Persons
• The modern trial and evidence law : has the "rambling altercation" become a pedantic joust? / Daniel D. Blinka
• The withering away of evidence : notes on theory and practice / Robert P. Burns
• Judicial gatekeeping of suspect evidence : due process and evidentiary rules in the age of innocence / Keith A. Findley
• The degrading character rule in American criminal trials / Paul S. Milich
• Searching for truth in the American law of evidence and proof / D. Michael Risinger
• The curious case of differing literary emphases : the contrast between the use of scientific publications at pretrial Daubert hearings and at trial / Ronald L. Carlson
• The epistemological trend in the evolution of the law of expert testimony : a scrutiny at once broader, narrower, and deeper / Edward J. Imwinkelried
• A tale of two Dauberts / Julie A. Seaman.

• Foreword by R. Perry Sentell, Jr.
• Series Foreword by G. Alan Tarr
• Acknowledgments
• The Constitutional History of Georgia
• Early Government in Georgia
• The Constitution of 1777
• The Constitution of 1789
• The Constitution of 1798
• The Constitution of 1861
• The Constitution of 1865
• The Constitution of 1868
• The Constitution of 1877
• Developments from 1877 to 1945
• The Constitution of 1945
• The Constitution of 1976
• The Constitution of 1983
• Constitutional Amendments
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Georgia Constitution and Commentary
• Preamble
• Article I: Bill of Rights
• Article II: Voting and Elections
• Article III: Legislative Branch
• Article IV: Constitutional Boards and Commissions
• Article V: Executive Branch
• Article VI: Judicial Branch
• Article VII: Taxation and Finance
• Article VIII: Education
• Article IX: Counties and Municipal Corporations
• Article X: Amendments to the Constitution
• Article XI: Miscellaneous Provisions
• Bibliographic Essay
• Local Constitutional Amendments in Force and Effect as of July 1, 1993
• Table of Cases
• Index.
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In The Georgia State Constitution, Melvin Hill Jr. offers a detailed description of the creation and development of Georgia's constitution. He explains how political and cultural events, from colonial times, through the Civil War, to the present, have affected Georgia's constitutional law. Accompanying the full text of the constitution is Hill's rich commentary of the constitutional provisions. He traces their origins and interpretation by the courts and other governmental bodies. This volume also provides a bibliographical essay which features the most important sources of Georgia's constitutional history and constitutional law. Previously published by Greenwood, this title has been brought back in to circulation by Oxford University Press with new verve. Re-printed with standardization of content organization in order to facilitate research across the series. This title, as with all titles in the series, is set to join the dynamic revision cycle of The Oxford Commentaries on the State Constitutions of the United States. The Oxford Commentaries on the State Constitutions of the United States is an important new 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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• The research process and legal analysis
• Judicial opinions and reporters
• Digests and finding cases
• Statutes, constitutions, and court rules
• Legislative history
• Administrative law
• Updating research with citators
• Secondary sources and practice materials
• Legal ethics research
• Online legal research
• Research strategies and organization.

• 1. The voting rights act of 1965: a great divide
• 2. After the civil war
• recreating 'the white man's Georgia'
• 3. The dawning of a new day: abolition of the white primary
• 4. Passage of the civil rights act of 1957: the white response
• 5. One person, one vote: the end of the county unit system and the malapportioned legislature and congressional delegation
• 6. The election code of 1964: twilight of the county unit legislature
• 7. The voting rights scene outside the golden dome
• 8. The voting rights act
• how it works
• 9. Increased black registration: the white response
• 10. 1970 extension of the voting rights act: more white resistance
• 11. The 1975 extension of the voting rights act: the private enforcement campaign
• 12. Redistricting in the 1980s
• 13. 1982: voting rights in the balance
• 14. Continued enforcement of the voting rights act
• 15. The demise of Georgia's nineteenth-century voter registration system: taking stock of the impact of the voting rights act
• 16. Recreating the past: the challenge to the majority vote requirement
• 17. The white backlash: redistricting in the 1990s
• 18. Keysville, Georgia - a voting rights crusade.
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From slavery to the white backlash of the 1990s, A Voting Rights Odyssey is a riveting account of the crusade for equal voting rights in Georgia. Written by a veteran civil rights lawyer the book draws upon expert reports and other court records, as well as trial testimony and interviews with the men and women who served as plaintiffs and witnesses in litigation that helped forge a revolution in voting rights. The book explores, and repudiates, the myths of the Reconstruction era that blacks were incapable of voting and holding office. It also catalogues the attempts of the state leadership to maintain white supremacy after the abolition of the white primary, the demands of the Civil Rights Movement, and passage of the historic Voting Rights Act of 1965. A must read for anyone interested in the way in which race has driven and distorted the political process in the South.
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• 1. The voting rights act of 1965: a great divide
• 2. After the civil war
• recreating 'the white man's Georgia'
• 3. The dawning of a new day: abolition of the white primary
• 4. Passage of the civil rights act of 1957: the white response
• 5. One person, one vote: the end of the county unit system and the malapportioned legislature and congressional delegation
• 6. The election code of 1964: twilight of the county unit legislature
• 7. The voting rights scene outside the golden dome
• 8. The voting rights act
• how it works
• 9. Increased black registration: the white response
• 10. 1970 extension of the voting rights act: more white resistance
• 11. The 1975 extension of the voting rights act: the private enforcement campaign
• 12. Redistricting in the 1980s
• 13. 1982: voting rights in the balance
• 14. Continued enforcement of the voting rights act
• 15. The demise of Georgia's nineteenth-century voter registration system: taking stock of the impact of the voting rights act
• 16. Recreating the past: the challenge to the majority vote requirement
• 17. The white backlash: redistricting in the 1990s
• 18. Keysville, Georgia - a voting rights crusade.
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From slavery to the white backlash of the 1990s, A Voting Rights Odyssey is a riveting account of the crusade for equal voting rights in Georgia. Written by a veteran civil rights lawyer the book draws upon expert reports and other court records, as well as trial testimony and interviews with the men and women who served as plaintiffs and witnesses in litigation that helped forge a revolution in voting rights. The book explores, and repudiates, the myths of the Reconstruction era that blacks were incapable of voting and holding office. It also catalogues the attempts of the state leadership to maintain white supremacy after the abolition of the white primary, the demands of the Civil Rights Movement, and passage of the historic Voting Rights Act of 1965. A must read for anyone interested in the way in which race has driven and distorted the political process in the South.
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• Trial courts
• Research framework and study site
• Civil justice in Mountain County
• Civil mediation in Mountain County
• The impact of mediation on case processing in Hall County
• Mediation, civil justice, and court actors.

• Trial courts
• Research framework and study site
• Civil justice in Mountain County
• Civil mediation in Mountain County
• The impact of mediation on case processing in Hall County
• Mediation, civil justice, and court actors.

Annotation Hartley examines the introduction of alternative dispute resolution (e.g., mediation) in a court system in Georgia. Attorneys supported the introduction of mediation to consolidate control of the legal process and to add it to their practices. They also used mediation to settle some cases more quickly. Mediation gave judges flexibility to weed out minor cases and process others more quickly. However, these changes were not so great as to put a dent in settlement or trial rates, and Hartley concludes that while changes in court procedures have effects, researchers need to examine the behavior of actors in depth in order to discover these effects.

This text describes the political events behind the changes in ten constitutions and a number of amendments from colonial times through the Civil War to the present, during which Georgia gained regional and national prominence. The text of the constitution and a commentary are included.
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