01896     2200265   4500001002100000005001500021035002000036008004100056020001500097041000800112082001300120084001900133100002200152700002100174700001900195245006700214260005100281300003700332500002300369520111600392650003301508650003701541990002601578990002601604INLIS00000000000308420221109112227  a0010-0520003084221109                |          | eng    a0521780381  aeng  a347.7326  a347.7326 SEG s0 aSegal, Jeffrey A.0 aHarold J. Spaeth0 aSara C. Benesh14aSupreme Court in the American Legal System /cJeffrey A. Segal  aCambridge :bCambridge University Press,c2005  axiv, 409p. :b: illus. ;c24 cm.  aIndeks : p.393-409  aThis book examines the American legal system, including a comprehensive treatment of the U.S. Supreme Court. Despite this treatment, the in of the title deserves emphasis, for the authors extensively examine lower courts, providing separate chapters on state courts, the U.S. District Courts, and the U.S. Courts of Appeals. It analyzes these courts from a legal/ extralegal framework, drawing different conclusions about the relative influence of each based on institutional structures and empirical evidence. It is also tied together through its attention to the relationship between lower courts and the Supreme Court. Additionally, Election 2000 litigation provides a common substantive topic linking many of the chapters. It provides extended coverage of the legal process, with separate chapters on civil procedure, evidence, and criminal procedure. This volume contains original research, such research is presented at a level that does not require methodological sophistication. All data used for the authors' original research, and all commands to run the analyses, are provided on the book's Web site. 4aUnited States. Supreme Court 4aJudicial process - United States  a11585/MKRI-P/XII-2008  a11585/MKRI-P/XII-2008