Brandeis and the Progressive Constitution: Erie, the Judicial Power, and the Politics of the Federal Courts in Twentieth-century America
- ISBN-10
- 0300147392
- ISBN-13
- 9780300147391
- Category
- Judges
- Pages
- 417
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
Description
This book focuses on Supreme Court justice Louis D. Brandeis and his opinion in the 1938 landmark case Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, which resulted in a significant relocation of power from federal to state courts.
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- 2000-02-09
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- Yale University Press
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