Hard Judicial Choices
Federal District Court Judges and State and Local Officials
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 14 April 1988
- ISBN 9780195041927
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages384 pages
- Size 234x156x20 mm
- Weight 549 g
- Language English
- Illustrations figures, tables 0
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Long description:
In controversial court cases involving civil rights, schools and housing, prison reform, and other social issues, federal district-court judges are often called upon to make some of the most difficult judicial decisions. Asked to protect the constitutional rights of all individuals, even when such protection may be at odds with the interests of local majorities, federal district-court judges are frequently faced with pressure, ridicule, and even threats to themselves
or their families when deciding and implementing complex remedial decrees. Why do judges issue these decrees given the difficulties involved? How do these cases arise? How are they prosecuted and remedies fashioned when federally protected rights are violated? How can relations between federal
judges and state and local officials be improved?
This book, the first to attempt to view these cases from the perspective of district-court judges, examines some of these questions through five comparative case studies involving housing discrimination, school desegregation, mental health facilities, and the right to treatment, prison conditions, and policy/community relations. An introductory chapter presents a clear overview of the remedial decree process. Each of the following case studies is preceded by a chapter that sets the case in its
legal, administrative, and political context.
'Phillip Cooper's book is essential reading ... It delves behind the public jurisprudence of the Supreme Court to the often sordid facts with which district judges have to cope'
Richard Hodder-Williams, University of Bristol. THES'
