Justice and legal change on the shores of Lake Erie [electronic resource] : A history of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio / edited by Paul Finkelman and Roberta Sue Alexander ; foreword by Solomon Oliver, Jr.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Willson era : the inception of the Northern District of Ohio, 1855/67 / Roberta Sue Alexander -- A political show trial in the Northern District : the Oberlin-Wellington fugitive slave rescue case / Paul Finkelman -- The impact of the Northern District of Ohio on industrialization and labor : liability law and labor injunctions in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, 1870-1932 / Melvyn Dubofsky -- The trial of Eugene V. Debs, 1918 / Melvin I. Urofsky -- Bringing Brown to Cleveland / Richard B. Saphire -- The struggle for gender equality in the Northern District of Ohio / Tracy A. Thomas -- Religion in the public sector / Martin H. Belsky -- From Euclid to the development of federal environmental law : the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio and the regulation of physical space / Keith H. Hirokawa -- Preserving trust in government : public corruption and the court / Nancy E. Marion -- The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio and the May 4, 1970, shooting at Kent State University / Thomas R. Hensley -- When law and conscience conflict : the draft nonregistration case of United States v. Mark Arden Schmucker / Elizabeth Reilly -- The trials of John Demjanjuk / Renee C. Redman -- Capital litigation in the Northern District / Alison K. Guernsey.

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