Civil Rights Legislation
Cases and Materials
Sixth Edition
by Theodore Eisenberg, Ann M. Eisenberg
2014
Tags: Civil Rights/Race and the Law, Legislation
1452 pp $221.00
ISBN 978-1-63044-005-3
eISBN 978-1-63044-007-7
The Sixth Edition of Civil Rights Legislation includes:
- The latest materials on the basic principles of section 1983 and the Bivens doctrine (including Minneci v. Pollard, Van de Kamp v. Goldstein, Skinner v. Switzer)
- Issues related to pleading standards (including Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, Ashcroft v. Iqbal)
- Treatment of qualified immunity (including Safford Unified School District #1 v. Redding, Pearson v. Callahan, Ortiz v. Jordan)
- Issues related to municipal liability (including Connick v. Thompson, Los Angeles County v. Humphries)
- Issues arising from federal habeas corpus (including McQuiggin v. Perkins, Chaidez v. United States, Magwood v. Patterson)
- Recent treatment of federal court abstention (including Sprint Communications, Inc. v. Jacobs)
- Remedies for violations of constitutional rights (including Perdue v. Kenny A., Brown v. Plata)
- Developments under section 1981 (including CBOCS West, Inc. v. Humphries)
- Developments under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (including Vance v. Ball State University, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes)
- Recent treatment of the Americans with Disabilities Act in district and appellate courts
Supplementary Materials
Civil Rights Legislation Document Supplement: Cases and Materials, Fifth Edition
2009, 1454 pp, paper, ISBN 978-0-82056-071-7
$48.00
Comp Copy If you are a professor teaching in this field you may request a complimentary copy.