Narrowing the nation's power : the Supreme Court sides with the states /
Narrowing the nation's power is the tale of how a cohesive majority of the Supreme Court has, in the last six years, cut back the power of Congress and enhanced the autonomy of the fifty states. The immunity from suit of the sovereign, Blackstone taught, is necessary to preserve the people'...
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| Language: | English |
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University of California Press,
2002
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| Summary: | Narrowing the nation's power is the tale of how a cohesive majority of the Supreme Court has, in the last six years, cut back the power of Congress and enhanced the autonomy of the fifty states. The immunity from suit of the sovereign, Blackstone taught, is necessary to preserve the people's idea that the sovereign is "a superior being." Promoting the common law doctrine of sovereign immunity to constitutional status, the current Supreme Court has used it to shield the states from damages for age discrimination, disability discrimination, and the violation of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and fair labor standards. Not just the states themselves, but every state-sponsored entity--a state insurance scheme, a state university's research lab, the Idaho Potato Commission--has been insulated from paying damages in tort or contract. Sovereign immunity, as Noonan puts it, has metastasized. "It only hurts when you think about it," Noonan's Yalewoman remarks. Noonan is a passionate believer in the place of persons in the law. Rules, he claims, are a necessary framework, but they must not obscure law's task of giving justice to persons. |
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| Item Description: | LC copy 3 signed by author. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 203 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-193) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520937666 052093766X 1417508388 9781417508389 9780520240681 0520240685 9780520235748 1597347698 9781597347693 0520235746 |
| Language: | In English. |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
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