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Select Legal Topics

Volume 2

Andrew J. Schatkin

The second volume of Select Legal Topics updates, analyses, and covers current developments in such areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, state civil procedure, civil rights matters, constitutional issues, and significant recent Supreme Court decisions. Select Legal Topics also covers issues of mental disease or defects in the case of a criminal client and considers the rules in the criminal procedure law concerning motions to set aside the verdict as well as post-conviction motions.

Section one analyzes mainly criminal law issues. Section two considers civil rights issues. Included in this section are such issues as the First Amendment, state action, and other more specific and exact issues in this area. Section three of the book considers various procedural issues. The book also includes a comprehensive index and table of cases. This book, to some extent, is general in character but also hones in and analyses certain legal developments in significant United States Supreme Court decisions. It will be of great benefit both to lawyers, law students, law faculty, university professors, and judges at the federal and state level.
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University Press of America
Pages: 190 • Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7618-6636-7 • Paperback • November 2015 • $41.99 • (£35.00)
978-0-7618-6637-4 • eBook • November 2015 • $39.50 • (£30.00)
Subjects: Law / Constitutional, Law / Criminal LAW / Sentencing, Law / Criminal Procedure, Law / Civil Law, Law / Civil Procedure
Andrew J. Schatkin is the principal of a law firm in Long Island and New York City. He has published five book chapters in the fields of evidence, criminal law, and family law. He is the author of Select Legal Topics: Civil, Criminal, Federal, Evidentiary, Procedural, and Labor (University Press of America, 2009), a 650-page legal treatise covering most areas of American law, and a more general book of philosophical essays. Schatkin will be publishing a forthcoming book of general philosophical essays, as well as a book on the parables in the Bible.
Preface
Section I – Criminal Law
Introduction
1. Post-Conviction Motions: First in a Three-part Series
2. Post-Conviction Motions: Second in a Three-part Series
3. Post-Conviction Motions: Part Three
4. Notice of Alibi: An Overview and Analysis
5. The Motion to Set Aside the Verdict: A Compilation of Cases
6. An Analysis of the Motion to Set Aside the Verdict: Subsection 1
7. An Analysis of the Motion to Set Aside the Verdict: Subsection 2
8. An Analysis of the Motion to Set Aside the Verdict: Part IV
9. Article 730 / Mental Disease or Defect Excluding Fitness to Proceed: Part I
10. Article 730 / Mental Disease or Defect Excluding Fitness to Proceed: Part II
11. Article 730 / Mental Disease or Defect Excluding Fitness to Proceed: Part III

Section II – Civil Rights Law
Introduction
12. The First Amendment and State Action
13. Named or Unnamed: A Neat Question
14. State Human Rights and Title VII
15. A Matter of Time
16. A Question of National Origin
17. A Note on Equitable Tolling
18. A Recent Civil Rights Case
19. A Word about Civil Rights and Domestic Violence
20. A Recent Case on Corporate Finance
21. Section 1983 and Excessive Force
22. Termination At Will?
23. A Few Words on a Recent United States Supreme Court Case
24. A Final and Disturbing Labor Law Decision
25. Some Comments on Three Recent Supreme Court Cases

Section III – Procedural Issues
Introduction
26. The Motion to Strike
27. When an Attorney Does Not Appear: The CPLR Solution
28. A Note on Objections Under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
Table of Cases
Index
This new book by Andrew Schatkin will be a great benefit to lawyers, judges, law students, and the general public. Having this reference book will be helpful to anyone who wishes to be informed about the areas of law the book covers. I look forward to further books by Andrew Schatkin.
— Richard Gutierrez, attorney at law


For more than 35 years, Andrew J. Schatkin has been a practicing attorney, author, and teacher. There are very few lawyers or judges in these United States who can rival his prolific output, his analysis, or his insightful commentaries on subjects relating to the law. All lawyers and the public owe him a debt of thanks for his due diligence.
— Thomas E. Liotti, village justice in Westbury, Long Island, NY, and former chair of New York State Bar Associations’ Criminal Justice Section


Select Legal Topics

Volume 2

Cover Image
Paperback
eBook
Summary
Summary
  • The second volume of Select Legal Topics updates, analyses, and covers current developments in such areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, state civil procedure, civil rights matters, constitutional issues, and significant recent Supreme Court decisions. Select Legal Topics also covers issues of mental disease or defects in the case of a criminal client and considers the rules in the criminal procedure law concerning motions to set aside the verdict as well as post-conviction motions.

    Section one analyzes mainly criminal law issues. Section two considers civil rights issues. Included in this section are such issues as the First Amendment, state action, and other more specific and exact issues in this area. Section three of the book considers various procedural issues. The book also includes a comprehensive index and table of cases. This book, to some extent, is general in character but also hones in and analyses certain legal developments in significant United States Supreme Court decisions. It will be of great benefit both to lawyers, law students, law faculty, university professors, and judges at the federal and state level.
Details
Details
  • University Press of America
    Pages: 190 • Trim: 6 x 9
    978-0-7618-6636-7 • Paperback • November 2015 • $41.99 • (£35.00)
    978-0-7618-6637-4 • eBook • November 2015 • $39.50 • (£30.00)
    Subjects: Law / Constitutional, Law / Criminal LAW / Sentencing, Law / Criminal Procedure, Law / Civil Law, Law / Civil Procedure
Author
Author
  • Andrew J. Schatkin is the principal of a law firm in Long Island and New York City. He has published five book chapters in the fields of evidence, criminal law, and family law. He is the author of Select Legal Topics: Civil, Criminal, Federal, Evidentiary, Procedural, and Labor (University Press of America, 2009), a 650-page legal treatise covering most areas of American law, and a more general book of philosophical essays. Schatkin will be publishing a forthcoming book of general philosophical essays, as well as a book on the parables in the Bible.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Preface
    Section I – Criminal Law
    Introduction
    1. Post-Conviction Motions: First in a Three-part Series
    2. Post-Conviction Motions: Second in a Three-part Series
    3. Post-Conviction Motions: Part Three
    4. Notice of Alibi: An Overview and Analysis
    5. The Motion to Set Aside the Verdict: A Compilation of Cases
    6. An Analysis of the Motion to Set Aside the Verdict: Subsection 1
    7. An Analysis of the Motion to Set Aside the Verdict: Subsection 2
    8. An Analysis of the Motion to Set Aside the Verdict: Part IV
    9. Article 730 / Mental Disease or Defect Excluding Fitness to Proceed: Part I
    10. Article 730 / Mental Disease or Defect Excluding Fitness to Proceed: Part II
    11. Article 730 / Mental Disease or Defect Excluding Fitness to Proceed: Part III

    Section II – Civil Rights Law
    Introduction
    12. The First Amendment and State Action
    13. Named or Unnamed: A Neat Question
    14. State Human Rights and Title VII
    15. A Matter of Time
    16. A Question of National Origin
    17. A Note on Equitable Tolling
    18. A Recent Civil Rights Case
    19. A Word about Civil Rights and Domestic Violence
    20. A Recent Case on Corporate Finance
    21. Section 1983 and Excessive Force
    22. Termination At Will?
    23. A Few Words on a Recent United States Supreme Court Case
    24. A Final and Disturbing Labor Law Decision
    25. Some Comments on Three Recent Supreme Court Cases

    Section III – Procedural Issues
    Introduction
    26. The Motion to Strike
    27. When an Attorney Does Not Appear: The CPLR Solution
    28. A Note on Objections Under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
    Table of Cases
    Index
Reviews
Reviews
  • This new book by Andrew Schatkin will be a great benefit to lawyers, judges, law students, and the general public. Having this reference book will be helpful to anyone who wishes to be informed about the areas of law the book covers. I look forward to further books by Andrew Schatkin.
    — Richard Gutierrez, attorney at law


    For more than 35 years, Andrew J. Schatkin has been a practicing attorney, author, and teacher. There are very few lawyers or judges in these United States who can rival his prolific output, his analysis, or his insightful commentaries on subjects relating to the law. All lawyers and the public owe him a debt of thanks for his due diligence.
    — Thomas E. Liotti, village justice in Westbury, Long Island, NY, and former chair of New York State Bar Associations’ Criminal Justice Section


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