The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania : : Life and Law in the Commonwealth, 1684-2017 / / ed. by John J. Hare.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Bashman, Howard J.,; Bauman, Jeffrey P.,; Beck, James M.,; Beck, Phyllis W.,; Becker, Charles L.,; Brake, Deborah L.,; Byer, Robert L.,; Carpenter, Meredith E.,; Ceraso, Amy,; Darr, Thomas B.,; Deliberato Jr., Vincent C.,; Dubofsky, Melvyn,; Finkelman, Paul,; Fishman, Joel,; Frietsche, Susan,; Gedid, John L.,; Gildin, Gary S.,; Gormley, Kenneth G.,; Hare, John J.,; Hudzicki-Grimmig, Michele,; Jubelirer, Renée Cohn,; Kline, Thomas R.,; Laidacker, Ruxandra M.,; Larson, Carlton F. W.,; LeFrancois, Arthur G.,; Meilton, Roger B.,; Rieders, Clifford A.,; Sachs, Teresa Ficken,; Saylor, Thomas G.,; Shellenberger, James A.,; Shipman, Pamela L.,; Sholinsky, Edward J.,; Shugerman, Jed H.,; Solano, Carl A.,; Sole, Joseph A. Del,; Specter, Shanin,; Stickman, William S.,; Strazzella, James A.,; Wilkinson Jr., Thomas G.,
• HerausgeberIn: Hare, John J.,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (456 p.) :; 25 illustrations

Established in 1684, over a century before the Commonwealth, Pennsylvania's Supreme Court is the oldest appellate court in North America. This balanced, comprehensive history of the Court examines over three centuries of legal proceedings and cases before the body, the controversies and conflicts with which it dealt, and the impact of its decisions and of the case law its justices createdIntroduced by constitutional scholar Ken Gormley, this volume describes the Supreme Court's structure and powers and focuses at length on the Court's work in deciding notable cases of constitutional law, civil rights, torts, criminal law, labor law, and administrative law. Through three sections, "The Structure and Powers of the Supreme Court," "Decisional Law of the Supreme Court," and "Reporting Supreme Court Decisions," the contributors address the many ways in which the Court and its justices have shaped life and law in Pennsylvania and beyond. They consider how it has adjudicated new and complex issues arising from some of the most notable events and tragedies in American history, including the struggle for religious liberty in colonial Pennsylvania, the Revolutionary War, slavery, the Johnstown Flood, the Homestead Steel Strike and other labor conflicts, both World Wars, and, more recently, the dramatic rise of criminal procedural rights and the expansion of tort law.Featuring an afterword by Chief Justice Saylor and essays by leading jurists, deans, law and history professors, and practicing attorneys, this fair-minded assessment of the Court is destined to become a criterion volume for lawmakers, scholars, and anyone interested in legal history in the Keystone State and the United States.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: The History of a Time-Honored Court -- Part 1: The Structure and Powers of the Supreme Court -- Chapter 1: (S)electing Judges in Pennsylvania -- Chapter 2: The King's Bench Powers -- Chapter 3: The Power of Rulemaking -- Chapter 4: The Supreme Court's Singular Criminal Procedure Work in a Pivotal Era -- Chapter 5: Supervising and Regulating the Practice of Law -- Chapter 6: Supervising and Regulating the Judiciary -- Chapter 7: The Development and Improvement of Pennsylvania's Judicial Computer System -- Image Gallery -- Image Gallery -- Part 2: Decisional Law of the Supreme Court -- Section 1: Constitutional Law and Civil Rights -- Chapter 8: The Supreme Court and the Separation of Powers Under the Pennsylvania Constitution -- Chapter 9: The Supreme Court and Religious Liberty: The Competing Visions of William Penn and Chief Justice John Bannister Gibson -- Chapter 10: Free Expression Versus Reputation: The Supreme Court's Weighing of Interests -- Chapter 11: Women on the Court and the Court on Women -- Chapter 12: Article I, Section 28 of the Pennsylvania Constitution: Prohibiting the Denial or Abridgment of Equality of Rights Because of Sex -- Chapter 13: The Supreme Court's Enforcement of Antidiscrimination Laws -- Chapter 14: The Supreme Court and the Contours of State and Federal Power in Revolutionary Pennsylvania -- Section 2: Tort Law -- Chapter 15: The Floodgates of Strict Liability: The Johnstown Flood of 1889, the Supreme Court, and the Rise of Modern American Tort Law -- Chapter 16: The Supreme Court and Medical Malpractice Law -- Chapter 17: The Ebb and Flow of the Law: The Supreme Court's Product Liability Jurisprudence -- Chapter 18: Clash of Titans: The Supreme Court and Product Liability -- Section 3: Criminal Law -- Chapter 19: The 1778-1779 Chester and Philadelphia Treason Trials: The Supreme Court as Trial Court -- Chapter 20: Slavery and the Supreme Court: High Court Justices and the Problem of Fundamental Justice -- Chapter 21: When Felons Don't Kill: The Felony Murder Rule in Pennsylvania -- Section 4: Labor Law and Economic Rights -- Chapter 22: The Supreme Court and the Labor Movement -- Chapter 23: The Homestead Lockout of 1892 and Jurisprudence in Pennsylvania -- Chapter 24: Defining the Role of the Legislature in Regulating the Economy -- Section 5: Administrative Law -- Chapter 25: The Supreme Court and Administrative Law -- Afterword -- Appendix A: The Reports of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania -- Appendix B: Historical List of Supreme Court Justices -- Index