| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 288 pages) : maps |
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The Texas experience |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
Human drama, Texas-style -- Butcher, baker, candlestick maker, uber driver -- Sue me, sue me, what can you do me? -- Bag and baggage -- A jury of their peers -- Dead reckoning -- I'm blessed that i don't dream about them -- What's happening in JP court is downright criminal -- Juvenile justice -- Gettin' hitched -- To hitch or not to hitch -- Four-footed constituents -- Forward and in sensible shoes (sometimes boots). With spangles -- In God some of us trust -- Brain, heart, and nerve -- In the opinion of the court -- Disrespecting the robe -- Goin' rogue -- Just a member of the community -- And in conclusion, your honor. Let's wrap this up |
| Summary |
"From 1983 to 1987, author Mark Dunn worked as a court clerk for a justice of the peace in Travis County, Texas, where, he says, "I learned more about human nature . . . than I could have learned in any other job I might have taken up as a bushy-tailed kid from Tennessee." Based on interviews with 200 justices of the peace from all parts of Texas, Texas People's Court promises to take readers on a tour of what it means to be a Texas justice of the peace: an experience that is by turns hilarious, sobering, heart-wrenching, and, from one end to the other, fascinating. Here in the Texas justice court, wrongs can be righted and lives changed in profound ways. A priceless family necklace might finally be restored to the rightful owner; an occupational driver's license fortuitously granted. A death inquest may become an opportunity for family reflection and valediction, with the attending judge as sympathetic witness. In each of its chapters, Texas People's Court takes up a different aspect, duty, or area of thought related to the profession of justice of the peace taken from conversations with JPs throughout the state of Texas-from those who serve in its most populous municipalities to rural county JPs-putting a human face on the responsibilities, attitudes, and perspectives that motivate their judgments. The result is a thoroughly entertaining, sympathetic view of what Dunn calls "the day-to-day observation of human conflict in microcosm.""-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Judicial process -- Texas -- Cases
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Small claims courts -- Texas
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Justices of the peace -- Texas
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Small claims courts.
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Justices of the peace.
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Judicial process.
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Texas.
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| Genre/Form |
Trials, litigation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Project Muse. distributor.
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| LC no. |
2021040591 |
| ISBN |
9781623499785 |
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9781623499792 |
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1623499798 |
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162349978X |
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