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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Hardcover Edition. Book Club Code O26. Beige boards lettered with black on the spine. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket with a few small nicks around the edges; no interior markings. Dj art by Shelly Shapiro; interiors by Wendy Adrian Shultz. Size: 8vo. Shelly Shapiro; Wendy Adrian Shultz; (illustrator). Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: As New. First Edition. . . . . 1st ed. 8vo, hardcover, cloth [no dj]. As new condition. 315 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. Slight wear to book and dust jacket. No stamps or writing. Size: 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". Cover art by Shelly Shapiro, illustrations by Wendy Adrian Shultz (illustrator). Book.

Softcover. Condition: Excellent condition. viii, 360 pp. Softcover. LCC: 2001027018.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. For more than eight centuries, three Latin words have stood between individual citizens and the governments that claim the power to imprison them. Habeas corpus. You shall have the body. A court order. A command. A demand that every government that locks a person behind a door appear before a judge and answer the most fundamental question any legal system built on liberty must be able to answer - by what right do you hold this person?The founders considered this protection so essential that they placed it in the structural core of the Constitution itself - not in the Bill of Rights, but in the original document, in the article that defines and limits the powers of Congress. The Suspension Clause of Article I, Section 9 prohibits suspension of the writ of habeas corpus except in cases of rebellion or invasion. That is how seriously the founders took the principle that government detention must be justified in court.Today, that protection exists - and it is surrounded by procedural barriers that make it extraordinarily difficult to reach.The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 imposed a one-year filing deadline on federal habeas petitions. It required federal courts to defer to state court decisions unless those decisions were not just wrong but objectively unreasonable. It restricted the ability of prisoners to file successive petitions when new evidence emerged. The exhaustion doctrine requires prisoners to present every federal constitutional claim to the state courts in precisely the right way before a federal court will consider it. The procedural default doctrine permanently bars federal review of claims not raised in exactly the right procedural vehicle at exactly the right time - even when the failure was the attorney's, not the prisoner's. The result is a system in which federal courts receive fifteen thousand to twenty thousand state prisoner habeas petitions every year and grant relief in fewer than one percent of them.This book documents habeas corpus completely - where it came from, what it actually does, and what it takes to use it. It covers the complete eight-century history of the great writ from Magna Carta through the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679 through the American founding and into the post-AEDPA system that governs federal habeas practice today. It covers federal habeas corpus for state prisoners under 28 USC 2254 and for federal prisoners under 28 USC 2255 - every element, every requirement, every procedural barrier, and every documented exception. It covers AEDPA and what that statute did to habeas corpus access. It covers exhaustion, procedural default, the cause and prejudice exception, the Martinez gateway, the actual innocence doctrine under Schlup v. Delo and McQuiggin v. Perkins, and ineffective assistance of counsel claims under Strickland v. Washington. It covers capital habeas corpus, immigration detention, military detention, civil commitment, and juvenile detention. It covers real cases - DNA exonerations, Brady violations exposed in post-conviction proceedings, ineffective assistance victories, and the documented cases where procedural barriers prevented meritorious claims from reaching federal review.And it hands every prisoner, every family member, every defense attorney, and every innocence advocate the specific legal tools to understand, invoke, and fight for the oldest protection individual liberty has ever had.This is not a book that tells you the system works. The system does not work well. This is a book that tells you exactly how the system works - every procedural requirement, every deadline, every exception, every gateway - so that the question the great writ has been asking for eight centuries can still be asked by every person who needs to ask it.By what right do you hold this person?That question st Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. More than one in four American workers now requires a government license to do their job. In the 1950s, that number was closer to one in twenty. No constitutional amendment authorized that expansion. No public safety crisis demanded it. It happened because occupational licensing is one of the most effective political tools ever invented for protecting established practitioners from competition - and because the constitutional limits on government licensing authority are among the best-kept secrets in American law.Those limits are real. They are grounded in Supreme Court decisions spanning eight decades. And this book explains exactly what they are, where they apply, and how to use them.The Supreme Court established in Murdock v. Pennsylvania that government cannot require a license for the exercise of a First Amendment right and charge a fee for that license. It established in Shuttlesworth v. City of Birmingham that a permit ordinance giving officials unbridled discretion to grant or deny permission for citizens to exercise constitutional rights is unconstitutional on its face. The landmark decisions in Heller and Bruen established that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms that firearms licensing requirements must justify against demanding constitutional scrutiny. And the Fourteenth Amendment's protection of liberty has been applied by federal courts to strike down occupational licensing requirements that serve no purpose other than protecting incumbent practitioners from price competition.This book covers all of it - accurately, completely, and in plain English that any reader can understand and use.You will learn what Shuttlesworth v. Birmingham actually held versus what it is popularly claimed to say, and why that distinction matters enormously for anyone who tries to invoke it. You will learn how licensing fees function as unconstitutional taxes on fundamental rights, what the poll tax parallel reveals about the Constitution's limits on government pricing of rights, and how to challenge fees that exceed legitimate administrative cost recovery. You will learn how licensing boards dominated by incumbent practitioners function as government-enforced cartels, what the Supreme Court's antitrust decision in North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners means for practitioners facing anticompetitive board conduct, and what the documented research on licensing and consumer outcomes reveals about the public safety justification that licensing advocates invoke in every legislative hearing.The Institute for Justice has spent three decades litigating these constitutional limits in federal courts across the country - winning landmark victories for hair braiders, tour guides, casket makers, and dozens of other practitioners whose licensing requirements could not survive honest constitutional scrutiny. This book examines that litigation record in full, including the defeats alongside the victories, because understanding where constitutional challenges succeed and where they face genuine doctrinal obstacles is more useful than a curated list of favorable precedents.Whether you are a small business owner facing burdensome licensing requirements, a citizen confronting permit demands for the exercise of First Amendment rights, a firearms owner navigating the post-Bruen licensing landscape, or an aspiring professional blocked from economic opportunity by a licensing requirement that bears no relationship to your work - this book hands you the specific constitutional knowledge, the practical challenge framework, and the organizational resources to understand when the government's permission slip demand is legitimate and when it crosses a constitutional line that eighty years of Supreme Court decisions have made clear.Your rights do not require a lic Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

First Edition. First edition. Softcover. 306 pages. Literary journal that includes contributions by Chris Adrian, Jim Shepard, Kate Braverman, Ryan Boudinot, Jessica Anthony, Wells Tower, Joshuah Bearman, Pia Z. Ehrbardt, Jessica Lamb-Shapiro, T.C. Boyle, Laurence Weschler, Silvia DiPierdomenico, Susan Straight, Malinda McCollum, Robert Olen Butler, Chris Bachelder, Claire Light, Linday Carleton, and Denis Johnson. A near fine copy in wrappers with some very minor wear. …

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 137 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.35 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. 315pp. Fine, without dust jacket as issued. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. Without dustwrapper as issued. Near fine with spine ends and corners lightly worn.

Condition: good. This is a pre-loved book that shows moderate signs of wear from previous reading. You may notice creases, edge wear, or a cracked spine, but it remains in solid, readable condition. Please note: -May include library or rental stickers, stamps, or markings. -Supplemental materials e.g., CDs, access codes, inserts are not guaranteed. -Box sets may not come with the original outer box. If it does, the box will not be in perfect condition. Your satisfaction is our top priority! If you have any questions or concerns about your order, please don't hesitate to reach out. Thank you for shopping with us and supporting small businessâ"happy reading.…

Condition: good. This is a pre-loved book that shows moderate signs of wear from previous reading. You may notice creases, edge wear, or a cracked spine, but it remains in solid, readable condition. Please note: -May include library or rental stickers, stamps, or markings. -Supplemental materials e.g., CDs, access codes, inserts are not guaranteed. -Box sets may not come with the original outer box. If it does, the box will not be in perfect condition. Your satisfaction is our top priority! If you have any questions or concerns about your order, please don't hesitate to reach out. Thank you for shopping with us and supporting small businessâ"happy reading.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. For more than eight centuries, three Latin words have stood between individual citizens and the governments that claim the power to imprison them. Habeas corpus. You shall have the body. A court order. A command. A demand that every government that locks a person behind a door appear before a judge and answer the most fundamental question any legal system built on liberty must be able to answer - by what right do you hold this person?The founders considered this protection so essential that they placed it in the structural core of the Constitution itself - not in the Bill of Rights, but in the original document, in the article that defines and limits the powers of Congress. The Suspension Clause of Article I, Section 9 prohibits suspension of the writ of habeas corpus except in cases of rebellion or invasion. That is how seriously the founders took the principle that government detention must be justified in court.Today, that protection exists - and it is surrounded by procedural barriers that make it extraordinarily difficult to reach.The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 imposed a one-year filing deadline on federal habeas petitions. It required federal courts to defer to state court decisions unless those decisions were not just wrong but objectively unreasonable. It restricted the ability of prisoners to file successive petitions when new evidence emerged. The exhaustion doctrine requires prisoners to present every federal constitutional claim to the state courts in precisely the right way before a federal court will consider it. The procedural default doctrine permanently bars federal review of claims not raised in exactly the right procedural vehicle at exactly the right time - even when the failure was the attorney's, not the prisoner's. The result is a system in which federal courts receive fifteen thousand to twenty thousand state prisoner habeas petitions every year and grant relief in fewer than one percent of them.This book documents habeas corpus completely - where it came from, what it actually does, and what it takes to use it. It covers the complete eight-century history of the great writ from Magna Carta through the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679 through the American founding and into the post-AEDPA system that governs federal habeas practice today. It covers federal habeas corpus for state prisoners under 28 USC 2254 and for federal prisoners under 28 USC 2255 - every element, every requirement, every procedural barrier, and every documented exception. It covers AEDPA and what that statute did to habeas corpus access. It covers exhaustion, procedural default, the cause and prejudice exception, the Martinez gateway, the actual innocence doctrine under Schlup v. Delo and McQuiggin v. Perkins, and ineffective assistance of counsel claims under Strickland v. Washington. It covers capital habeas corpus, immigration detention, military detention, civil commitment, and juvenile detention. It covers real cases - DNA exonerations, Brady violations exposed in post-conviction proceedings, ineffective assistance victories, and the documented cases where procedural barriers prevented meritorious claims from reaching federal review.And it hands every prisoner, every family member, every defense attorney, and every innocence advocate the specific legal tools to understand, invoke, and fight for the oldest protection individual liberty has ever had.This is not a book that tells you the system works. The system does not work well. This is a book that tells you exactly how the system works - every procedural requirement, every deadline, every exception, every gateway - so that the question the great writ has been asking for eight centuries can still be asked by every person who needs to ask it.By what right do you hold this person?Tha Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. More than one in four American workers now requires a government license to do their job. In the 1950s, that number was closer to one in twenty. No constitutional amendment authorized that expansion. No public safety crisis demanded it. It happened because occupational licensing is one of the most effective political tools ever invented for protecting established practitioners from competition - and because the constitutional limits on government licensing authority are among the best-kept secrets in American law.Those limits are real. They are grounded in Supreme Court decisions spanning eight decades. And this book explains exactly what they are, where they apply, and how to use them.The Supreme Court established in Murdock v. Pennsylvania that government cannot require a license for the exercise of a First Amendment right and charge a fee for that license. It established in Shuttlesworth v. City of Birmingham that a permit ordinance giving officials unbridled discretion to grant or deny permission for citizens to exercise constitutional rights is unconstitutional on its face. The landmark decisions in Heller and Bruen established that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms that firearms licensing requirements must justify against demanding constitutional scrutiny. And the Fourteenth Amendment's protection of liberty has been applied by federal courts to strike down occupational licensing requirements that serve no purpose other than protecting incumbent practitioners from price competition.This book covers all of it - accurately, completely, and in plain English that any reader can understand and use.You will learn what Shuttlesworth v. Birmingham actually held versus what it is popularly claimed to say, and why that distinction matters enormously for anyone who tries to invoke it. You will learn how licensing fees function as unconstitutional taxes on fundamental rights, what the poll tax parallel reveals about the Constitution's limits on government pricing of rights, and how to challenge fees that exceed legitimate administrative cost recovery. You will learn how licensing boards dominated by incumbent practitioners function as government-enforced cartels, what the Supreme Court's antitrust decision in North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners means for practitioners facing anticompetitive board conduct, and what the documented research on licensing and consumer outcomes reveals about the public safety justification that licensing advocates invoke in every legislative hearing.The Institute for Justice has spent three decades litigating these constitutional limits in federal courts across the country - winning landmark victories for hair braiders, tour guides, casket makers, and dozens of other practitioners whose licensing requirements could not survive honest constitutional scrutiny. This book examines that litigation record in full, including the defeats alongside the victories, because understanding where constitutional challenges succeed and where they face genuine doctrinal obstacles is more useful than a curated list of favorable precedents.Whether you are a small business owner facing burdensome licensing requirements, a citizen confronting permit demands for the exercise of First Amendment rights, a firearms owner navigating the post-Bruen licensing landscape, or an aspiring professional blocked from economic opportunity by a licensing requirement that bears no relationship to your work - this book hands you the specific constitutional knowledge, the practical challenge framework, and the organizational resources to understand when the government's permission slip demand is legitimate and when it crosses a constitutional line that eighty years of Supreme Court decisions have made clear.Your rights do not Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - A trust on paper protects nothing.Most trust books spend three hundred pages explaining what a trust is - and almost none teaching you to put something inside it. The result is a filing cabinet full of trusts that own nothing, control nothing, and shield nothing. The grantor dies, the family goes through probate anyway, and the trust sits in the drawer doing exactly what an empty box does.This book is different. It is an operating manual - the one that teaches you to move real assets into trusts and run them correctly, including the advanced structures most consumer trust books leave out entirely.The arc runs from title transfer to tax freeze: from the first recorded deed on your home to the structures the wealthy use quietly to lock the value of an estate before it is taxed. Across sixteen detailed chapters, you'll learn: - How to move your home into a trust without triggering the due-on-sale clause - and the QPRT that passes it to heirs at a discount- Gun trusts done correctly under NFA and ATF 41F rules - and how to fund pets, vehicles, and personal property so the transfer actually holds- The ILIT that keeps a life insurance death benefit out of the taxable estate - and the honest line between cash value you can borrow against and a death benefit you cannot- The trust bank account under its own EIN - what it really does for reporting, and what it does not- GRATs, IDGTs, and SLATs - the tax-freeze structures that move appreciation to heirs lawfully- Dynasty trusts in perpetuities-repeal states, and how to choose your trust's home state- Serious asset protection - domestic and fully reported offshore trusts, spendthrift provisions, decanting, and trust protectors- How trusts and LLCs layer rather than compete - and the buy-sell agreements that keep a business alive- What a trustee actually owes, and the personal liability of getting it wrong- The assets that should never go into a trust - and why the wrong move triggers immediate taxEvery method is built to work as described when you actually do it. Where a structure has a hard line between legitimate and abusive, this book names the line - so you know exactly where it sits and never cross it by accident.The law that builds a tax-freeze trust for a billionaire is the same law printed in these pages, and it does not check the size of the estate before it applies.Stop holding an empty box. Start funding a trust that works.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Uncover the hidden world of bonds and the critical role they play in the American legal and financial system. This comprehensive guide delves into the history, structure, and application of bonds across a wide range of contexts, from criminal justice to business transactions. Explore the evolution of bonds from their origins in English common law to their modern-day use in fields as diverse as construction, healthcare, and environmental protection.Gain a deep understanding of the legal and financial principles underlying bond agreements, including the rights and obligations of parties, the role of collateral, and the function of bonds as tradable securities. Examine the unique three-party structure of surety bonds and the complex relationships between principals, sureties, and obligees. Learn how indemnification agreements and penal sums work to align interests and manage risk.Discover the various types of bonds used in different industries and sectors, from bid bonds and performance bonds in construction to fidelity bonds and fiduciary bonds in business. Understand how the Miller Act and Little Miller Acts regulate the use of surety bonds in government contracts. Explore the role of bonds in managing risk and ensuring compliance in fields such as environmental protection and intellectual property.Recognize the challenges and limitations of bonds, including the potential for fraud, default, and insolvency, and learn strategies for mitigating these risks. Gain insights into the underwriting and claims processes, and the factors that determine bond pricing and availability. Understand the impact of economic cycles, regulatory changes, and technological innovation on the bond market.Suitable for professionals in law, finance, and business, as well as students and general readers, this book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the world of bonds. Whether you're a contractor seeking to understand bonding requirements, an investor evaluating bond offerings, or a policymaker seeking to regulate the bond market, this guide provides the knowledge and tools you need to navigate this complex and essential aspect of the American legal and financial system.Gain a competitive edge by mastering the intricacies of bonds and the critical role they play in managing risk, ensuring performance, and facilitating commerce. With its clear explanations, practical examples, and expert insights, this book is an indispensable resource for anyone seeking to understand and utilize bonds effectively in their professional or personal endeavors.…

94 pp.; 27 x 26.5 cm.; staple bound; black-and-white & color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; November 1979 issue of Artforum, edited by Joseph Masheck. Contents include: "Sean Scully's Absolute Paintings," by Sam Hunter; "Joseph Glasco: Painting Under Construction," by Vered Lieb; "Jene Highstein: A Full Roundness," by Ted Castle; "Nothing/Not Nothing/Something," by Joseph Masheck; "Ideas and Earth," by David Shapiro; "Jackie Ferrara's Il-lusions," by Kate Linker; "A Tournament of Rose's," by Hal Foster "Books: 'The Decorative Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright," by Alice van Buren. Reviews by Stuart Morgan, Adrian Searle, Richard Armstrong, Christopher Knight, Jeff Perrone, and George Tatge. Cover: Sean Scully. Good. Wear to covers including 6 cm. dog-ear to bottom right corner of recto, 7.5 cm. dog-ear to bottom left corner of verso, visible handling wear to covers and bumping of corners and 4.5 cm. of soiling to verso. Contents clean and unmarked. …

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Every American knows the phrase. Innocent until proven guilty. Judges recite it. Prosecutors acknowledge it. Juries are instructed on it before every deliberation. It is called the foundation of American criminal justice - traced through two thousand years of legal history, enshrined in the Constitution, and recognized in international human rights law as a universal guarantee that no just legal system can deny.And then the system does the opposite.On any given day, more than 400,000 people sit in American jails who have not been convicted of any crime. They are there because they could not afford bail. More than 97 percent of federal criminal cases never reach a jury - resolved through guilty pleas entered in a system where exercising the right to trial carries a sentencing premium so severe that innocent defendants routinely plead guilty to crimes they did not commit. The National Registry of Exonerations has recorded more than 3,300 wrongful convictions formally recognized since 1989.This is what innocent until proven guilty looks like in practice.Presumption of Innocence: Guilty Until You Can Prove Otherwise maps the complete gap between what the presumption promises and what the system delivers. It traces the principle from its origins in Roman law and English common law through the Supreme Court decisions that established it as a constitutional requirement. It documents every mechanism through which the system erodes the presumption - the money bail apparatus, the plea bargaining machine, the pretrial publicity environment, the courtroom practices that communicate guilt before evidence is presented, and the prosecutorial practices that hide the evidence most likely to support innocence.Then it hands every reader the tools to fight back.Every chapter closes with a practical guide to the specific motions, objections, voir dire strategies, and appellate arguments that give any defendant the strongest possible protection of a right the system routinely erodes while proclaiming its sanctity.For defendants. For defense attorneys. For jurors. For every American who believes the government must prove guilt before it takes liberty.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Most people who lose in civil court never had a chance to fight back - not because their position was indefensible, but because they never knew the fight existed.Every year, millions of Americans face civil proceedings they did not choose. A debt collector files suit. A landlord initiates eviction. A former employer seeks to enforce a non-compete. A government agency takes adverse action. And in the overwhelming majority of those proceedings, the person on the receiving end does the same thing - they show up unprepared, they respond emotionally rather than procedurally, or they do not show up at all. The party pursuing relief counts on exactly that.This book is about the obligations that party has never been required to meet.Equity is not a loophole. It is not a sovereign citizen theory. It is a body of law that has governed civil proceedings in Anglo-American courts for more than five centuries - and it places documented threshold requirements on every party seeking relief from a court before that court will help them. Clean hands. Standing. Freedom from unreasonable delay. Consistency with prior representations. These requirements apply to the debt collector, the opposing spouse, the former employer, the landlord, and the government agency. They apply in every civil proceeding those parties bring. Most people who face those proceedings never invoke those requirements - not because they are illegitimate but because nobody told them the requirements exist.This book changes that.Invoke Equity covers the complete equitable framework across every major civil proceeding category - debt collection, family court, contract disputes, property disputes, government proceedings, landlord-tenant cases, and employment disputes. Every chapter documents the specific equitable principles most relevant to each proceeding type, the published case law establishing those principles, and the specific questions, discovery demands, and procedural tools that give any litigant the ability to invoke them properly.This is not a book about magic formulas or guaranteed outcomes. It is an honest, deeply researched guide to a body of law that has always required opposing parties to demonstrate their right to what they seek - and that is available to any litigant who understands it well enough to invoke it.The framework exists. It has always existed. What changes with this book is how many people know it is there.…