San Antonio College Library

Discusses key decisions in the following areas: Those Who Govern; The Right to Vote; Citizenship; Religious Freedom; Freedom of Speech and Press; Obscenity; Privacy; Military Service; Equal Treatment; Due Process of Law; More Specific Guarantees (argues that the 14th amendment incorporates all of the Bill of Rights to the states as well as to the Federal Government).

An important contribution to constitutional literature, this collection of ten unpublished decisions by the Warren Court puts the decision making process of the Supreme Court in a new light. By following the major changes that occur in each case from the circulation of tentative majority opinions to the final issuance of opinion, the book portrays how the justices communicate with each other and how they are influenced by each other's arguments. Interpretations...

"The gripping true story of a Supreme Court civil rights battle to prevent biotech companies from owning the very thing that makes us who we are--our DNA"-- When attorney Chris Hansen learned that the U.S. government was issuing patents for human genes to biotech companies, he discovered that women were being charged exorbitant fees to test for hereditary breast and ovarian cancers, tests they desperately needed--because Myriad Genetics had patented...