Suburbs under Siege : : Race, Space, and Audacious Judges / / Charles M. Haar.

In Suburbs under Siege Charles Haar argues passionately that all people--rich or poor, black or white--have a constitutional right to live in the suburbs and that a socially responsible judiciary should vigorously uphold that right. For various reasons, American courts have generally failed to quest...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1996
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 328
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Physical Description:1 online resource (282 p.) :; 27 halftones 6 line drawings 3 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Prologue. A NATION OF SUBURBS
  • I. Breaking New Ground: The Role of the Courts in Social Change
  • Part I. CHALLENGE AND RESPONSE
  • II. Launching the Mount Laurel Doctrine: "Pack Up and Move to Camden!"
  • III. The View from the Mount
  • IV. Judges into the Fray
  • V. Of Special Masters and the Front Line
  • PART II: AN UNEASY TRIUMPH
  • VI. The Legislature Strikes Back . . .
  • VII. ... And the Judiciary Responds: Holmdel and Warren
  • PART III: INSTITUTIONAL REFORM THROUGH THE COURTS
  • VIII. The New World of Judicial Remedies
  • IX. Discretion and Its Discontents: Checking Abuses
  • PART IV: THE LEGACY
  • X. Leadership in Institutional Reform: Rallying Support for a Vision
  • XI. The Last Recourse: Why Judges Intervene
  • XII. National Ramifications: Judges as Social Innovators
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Picture Credits
  • Index