Frontmatter
Contents
Foreword
Introduction: The History of a Time-Honored Court
Part 1: The Structure and Powers of the Supreme Court
Chapter 1: (S)electing Judges in Pennsylvania
Chapter 2: The King's Bench Powers
Chapter 3: The Power of Rulemaking
Chapter 4: The Supreme Court's Singular Criminal Procedure Work in a Pivotal Era
Chapter 5: Supervising and Regulating the Practice of Law
Chapter 6: Supervising and Regulating the Judiciary
Chapter 7: The Development and Improvement of Pennsylvania's Judicial Computer System
Image Gallery
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Part 2: Decisional Law of the Supreme Court
Section 1: Constitutional Law and Civil Rights
Chapter 8: The Supreme Court and the Separation of Powers Under the Pennsylvania Constitution
Chapter 9: The Supreme Court and Religious Liberty: The Competing Visions of William Penn and Chief Justice John Bannister Gibson
Chapter 10: Free Expression Versus Reputation: The Supreme Court's Weighing of Interests
Chapter 11: Women on the Court and the Court on Women
Chapter 12: Article I, Section 28 of the Pennsylvania Constitution: Prohibiting the Denial or Abridgment of Equality of Rights Because of Sex
Chapter 13: The Supreme Court's Enforcement of Antidiscrimination Laws
Chapter 14: The Supreme Court and the Contours of State and Federal Power in Revolutionary Pennsylvania
Section 2: Tort Law
Chapter 15: The Floodgates of Strict Liability: The Johnstown Flood of 1889, the Supreme Court, and the Rise of Modern American Tort Law
Chapter 16: The Supreme Court and Medical Malpractice Law
Chapter 17: The Ebb and Flow of the Law: The Supreme Court's Product Liability Jurisprudence
Chapter 18: Clash of Titans: The Supreme Court and Product Liability
Section 3: Criminal Law
Chapter 19: The 1778-1779 Chester and Philadelphia Treason Trials: The Supreme Court as Trial Court
Chapter 20: Slavery and the Supreme Court: High Court Justices and the Problem of Fundamental Justice
Chapter 21: When Felons Don't Kill: The Felony Murder Rule in Pennsylvania
Section 4: Labor Law and Economic Rights
Chapter 22: The Supreme Court and the Labor Movement
Chapter 23: The Homestead Lockout of 1892 and Jurisprudence in Pennsylvania
Chapter 24: Defining the Role of the Legislature in Regulating the Economy
Section 5: Administrative Law
Chapter 25: The Supreme Court and Administrative Law
Afterword
Appendix A: The Reports of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appendix B: Historical List of Supreme Court Justices
Index