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JUSTICE FOR WARDS COVE

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    Item specifics

    Condition
    Very Good: A book that has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, ...
    Release Year
    2016
    ISBN
    9781514477083
    Category

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    Product Identifiers

    Publisher
    Xlibris Corporation LLC
    ISBN-10
    1514477084
    ISBN-13
    9781514477083
    eBay Product ID (ePID)
    227713465

    Product Key Features

    Topic
    General
    Book Title
    Justice for Wards Cove
    Publication Year
    2016
    Number of Pages
    324 Pages
    Language
    English
    Genre
    Law
    Author
    Douglas M. Fryer
    Format
    Trade Paperback

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    Item Length
    0.4 in
    Item Width
    0.2 in

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    Synopsis
    The book tells the story of a highly controversial civil rights case which involved the Alaska salmon industry. That industry is an intense summer operation in mostly remote wilderness. The participants were drawn from a wide range of sources: Natives who had harvested salmon for centuries, Italian, Croatian and Scandinavian fishermen and Asians who historically manned the canning lines. The unskilled cannery work was supplied by a predominantly Filipino controlled union. In the early 1970's young activist members of that union initiated a class action suit against Wards Cove Packing Company contending that minority employees were segregated into separate housing and messing and excluded from better paying jobs. The plaintiff s lost the case at trial to the surprise of many and multiple appeals followed. The Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision, over a bitter dissent, ruled in favor of Wards Cove holding that discrimination had not been proven by either the class of workers or by any single worker. The high court's decision was roundly criticized in the press and academia and Congress attempted to intervene. The executive branch became an advocate, first as a party, and later as a friend of the court but changed sides after an election. The case tested the boundary of separation of powers but ultimately the Supreme Court found a way to insulate its decisional process from Congressional interference. There has been a lingering misunderstanding of the case in the media. It has been recently re-enacted as a denial of justice and it has been described by some academics as the death knell of the civil rights movement. This book explains how the plaintiff s lost the main event at trial and how multiple appeals heard by 27 judges did not change the facts as found by the trial court as to what actually happened.

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