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2001

University of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School of Law

Legal History

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Procedural Uniformity And The Exagerated Role Of Rules, Thomas O. Main Jan 2001

Procedural Uniformity And The Exagerated Role Of Rules, Thomas O. Main

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Growing Up Dependent: Family Preservation In Early Twentieth-Century Chicago, David S. Tanenhaus Jan 2001

Growing Up Dependent: Family Preservation In Early Twentieth-Century Chicago, David S. Tanenhaus

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Beginning in 1911 with Illinois’ passage of the Funds to Parents Act—the first statewide mothers’ pensions legislation—the Chicago Juvenile Court built a two-track system for dependency cases that used the gender of single parents to track their children. The first or “institutional” track followed a nineteenth century model of family preservation that poor families had relied upon since before the Civil War, in which parents had used institutions to provide short-term care for their children during hard times. The juvenile court also established a “home-based” track for dependency that reflected a new model of family preservation. Progressive child-savers denounced the …


Dedication For Justice Hans Linde: A Modest Relativism, Leslie C. Griffin Jan 2001

Dedication For Justice Hans Linde: A Modest Relativism, Leslie C. Griffin

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