Anthony G. Amsterdam (1935–)
Anthony Amsterdam, law professor and opponent of the death penalty, earned an A.B. from Haverford College in 1957 and an L.L.B. in 1960 from the University of Pennsylvania.
Read the full storyAnders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967)
In Douglas v. California, 372 U.S. 353 (1963), the Supreme Court held that an indigent defendant was entitled to have counsel appointed to handle the appeal of his conviction.
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The Puritans of the early Massachusetts Bay Colony formed a tightly knit community with a common belief system enforced by civil and ecclesiastical law.
Read the full storyAnonymity and Free Speech
Anonymity has long been an important issue in American politics and jurisprudence. The key tension in American anonymity law is between the potentially chilling effects on speech stemming from compelled disclosure of identity and the desire to hold individuals accountable for harmful speech.
Read the full storyAnonymity in On‐line Communication
The current Internet architecture allows most on-line communications to be traced back to the author’s computer. That tracing process depends on the cooperation of Internet Service Providers (ISPs).
Read the full storyHarry Jacob Anslinger (1892–1975)
Harry Anslinger was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania, the son of an immigrant railroad worker. He earned an associate degree in engineering and business management and then went to work for the Pennsylvania Railroad as an investigator.
Read the full storySusan B. Anthony (1820–1906)
Susan B. Anthony, reformer and women’s suffragist, was born in Adams, Massachusetts, to Daniel Anthony and Lucy Read, one of eight children.
Read the full storyAnti-Abolitionist Gag Rules
The First Amendment to the Constitution provides for the right of the people ‘‘to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.’’
Read the full storyAnti-Abortion Protest and Freedom of Speech
The concept of a ‘‘buffer zone’’ was first raised in the 1990s. It was based on two things: increasingly violent and intrusive protests by anti-abortion forces and clinic actions to try to keep protesters a certain distance away from the clinics.
Read the full storyAnti-Anarchy and Anti-Syndicalism Statutes
From the ‘‘Salem witch trials’’ to the criminal prosecutions that constitute part of the government’s ‘‘war on terror,’’ American criminal law has been used to stamp out threats, perceived or actual, to federal and state governments.
Read the full storyAnti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) was founded in 1913 by Sigmund Livingston, a Chicago lawyer, to combat the anti-Semitism and discrimination against Jews that was prevalent at the time.
Read the full storyAntidiscrimination Laws
Discrimination occurs when the civil rights of an individual are denied or interfered with because of the individual’s membership in a particular group or class.
Read the full storyAntipolygamy Laws
In the United States antipolygamy laws were exclusively aimed at the polygamous practices of the nineteenth- century Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) which began to publicly practice and advocate polygamy in 1852.
Read the full storyApodaca v. Oregon, 406 U.S. 404 (1972)
In Apodaca v. Oregon, the U.S. Supreme Court addressed the question of whether the Sixth Amendment’s right to a jury trial required a unanimous verdict.
Read the full storyApplication of First Amendment to States
Those responsible for adding the Bill of Rights to the new federal constitution intended those amendments to act as limits on the national government only, a point illustrated as succinctly as possible by the opening words of the First Amendment: ‘‘Congress [emphasis added] shall make no law . . . .’’
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