Product Description: When the U.S. Supreme Court announces a decision, reporters simplify and dramatize the complex legal issues by highlighting dissenting opinions and thus emphasizing conflict among the justices themselves. This often sensationalistic coverage fosters public controversy over specific rulings despite polls which show that Americans strongly believe in the Court’s legitimacy as an institution...read more

Product Description: in the professional world as a starting point for collaboration; rather than leaving decisions to just one person, dissent offers the opportunity to rethink or reinvent an idea, leading, one hopes, to a better result. When dissensus occurs in a federal court, however, it raises the question of whether this difference of opinion maintains the integrity of the judiciary or undermines its legitimacy...read more

Product Description: Supreme Court Justices Brennan and Marshall dissented in over 2,500 capital punishment cases from 1976 until their retirements in the 1990s. Mello (law, Vermont Law School) scrupulously researches their opinions, sometimes drawing on personal papers and internal memoranda, to analyze the legal, his...read more

Product Description: This volume contains the texts of thirty-three Supreme Court cases. The editor presents the case as well as the dissent in these cases which address four aspects of the right to communicateómessages, context, channel and access. Introduced by a short summary of the positions taken by the members of the court and the highlights of the case, this is a valuable text for students studying freedom of expression...read more

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