Most histories of the Civil War era portray the struggle over slavery as a conflict that
exclusively pitted North against South, free labor against slave labor, and black against …

American National Biography is the first new comprehensive biographical dicionary focused
on American history to be published in seventy years. Produced under the auspices of the …

"[A] fascinating account of the twisted threads of murder, ethnic violence and mob justice in
19th century Southern California."—Jill Leovy, author of Ghettoside: A History of Murder in …

Woman Lawyer tells the story of Clara Foltz, the first woman admitted to the California Bar.
Famous in her time as a public intellectual, leader of the women's movement, and legal …

In two disconnected and hypothetical'locations, two government officers in performance of
their duties run afoul of a state criminal law. One is an FBI sniper who takes an arguably …

IDAHO v. HORIUCHI 253 F.3d 359 (2001) State of IDAHO, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Lon T.
HORIUCHI, Defendant-Appellee. No. 98-30149. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. …

Nevada entered the Union in 1864 as the thirty-sixth state, a mere two decades after John
Charles Frémont and his party undertook the first Euro-American exploration of the Great …

The proposition that the California Constitution is a source of rights independent of the
federal Constitution was not new in 1974, when the state constitution was amended to make …

Bloody Bay recounts the gritty history of law enforcement in San Francisco. Beginning just
before the California gold rush and through the six decades leading up to the twentieth …

[I] t is part of the general duty of counsel to render their professional services to persons
accused of crime, who are destitute of means, upon appointment of the Court, when not …