Fifty years of justice : a history of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida /
This book looks at the U.S. Middle District Court of Florida, which represents about 1/2 of Florida's population and is one of the busiest courts in the state, interpreting and applying Supreme Court decisions in cases such as the Terry Schaivo "right to die" case.
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida : The Historical Society of United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Inc.,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- From the Southern to the U.S. Middle District of Florida, 1950s-1962
- The U.S. Middle District of Florida, first years, 1962-1968
- The Middle District and civil rights, 1962-1968
- Adjudicating equality continues: the Middle District and school desegregation, 1968-1976
- The Middle District and the war on crime, 1968-1976
- Growing pains, constitutional questions, and bankruptcy, 1976-1980
- A new era begins: the Reagan years, 1980-1988
- Drugs, drugs, and more drugs, 1980-1988
- Mad dogs, spies, and international weapons dealers
- Income tax evasion, the death penalty, the environment, the aids epidemic, desegregation, and voting and employment discrimination, 1980-1988
- New judges, new challenges, 1988-1992
- The court expands and confronts antigovernment activity, 1992-2000
- Bankruptcy in the Middle District, 1984-2000
- First amendment, abortion rights, employment discrimination, and school desegregation litigation runs its course, 1992-2000
- Drugs, outlaws, fraud, pollution, endangered species, and a baby named Sabrina
- "It's a tidal wave ... and I"m not kidding about it!"
- Into the new century, 2000-2004
- Contesting sentencing guidelines, the Patriot Act, terrorism, and cases involving international questions
- Constitutional questions of the twenty-first-century court
- Income tax evasion, medicare fraud, organized crime, environmental disputes, and bankruptcy
- Closing arguments and taking stock: fifty years of justice.
