Dan Bernstein

Justice in Plain Sight

How a Small-Town Newspaper and Its Unlikely Lawyer Opened America's Courtrooms

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Produktbeschreibung

The improbable story of a modest-sized Southern California newspaper and its lawyer, who took two cases to the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1980s, winning them both and establishing First Amendment rights that significantly expanded public access to the American judicial system.  

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9781496219794
• ISBN-10: 1496219791
• Artikelnr.: 58018157

Autorenporträt

Dan Bernstein is a retired reporter, editorial writer, and general interest columnist for the Press-Enterprise newspaper in Riverside, California. He has won various state and national awards for column writing and is the author of two children’s books.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Prologue
1. “They Can’t Do That, Can They?”
2. “You’ll Never See Your Daughter Again”
3. Slamming the Door
4. The “Thrill-Killer” Nurse
5. The Hays-Cherniss Newspaper
6. “They Won’t Laugh at You Now”
7. “Mr. Everything”
8. The Battleground
9. Building the Case
10. The Diaz Case Advances
11. Mr. Ward Goes to Washington
12. The Audience of Nine
13. “I Will Be Back”
14. “The Presumption of Openness”
15. A Halt to the “Ominous Progression”?
16. Smacked Down Again
17. “Expanding the Right of Access”
18. Needle in a Haystack
19. “The Soil of Openness”
20. “Hands over His Face”
21. “Safeguard against the Corrupt and Eccentric”
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index