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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Map of route from New Orleans to Pointe Coupée Parish -- Partial family tree for Madame Josephine Dubuclet Decuir and Antoine Decuir II -- Introduction -- 1. Louisiana's Gens de Couleur and the Decuir and Dubuclet Families -- 2. Madame Decuir Returns from France and Hires New Lawyers -- 3. Madame Decuir's Journey and Reconstruction -- 4. Madame Decuir's Suit against Captain Benson -- 5. Judge Collum Decides -- 6. The Louisiana Supreme Court Affirms -- 7. Captain Benson Takes His Case to the US Supreme Court -- 8. Louisiana (and the Entire South) Redeemed -- 9. The Supreme Court Decides -- 10. The Completion of the Law's Journey to "Equal, but Separate" -- Epilogue -- Appendix. The Commerce Clause -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover.

Introduction to administrative law -- Separation of powers and administrative law -- The availability of judicial review of administrative decisions -- Scope of judicial review of administrative decisions -- Advanced issues in agency decisionmaking : reasoned decisionmaking, cost-benefit analysis and impact statements -- Agency choice of decisionmaking procedure -- APA rulemaking procedures -- Agency adjudication and due process -- Agency and private enforcement -- Licensing and ratemaking -- Agency inspections and information gathering -- Preemption and primary jurisdiction -- Liability of agencies and officials -- Freedom of information and open meetings.

Transitions: Legal Change, Legal Meanings illustrates the various intersections, crises, and shifts that continually occur within the law, and how these moments of change interact with and comment on contemporary society. Together the essays in this volume investigate the transformation of US law during moments of political change and explore what we can learn about law by examining its role and its use in times of transition. Whether by an abrupt shift in regime or an orderly progression from one government to the next, political change often calls into question the stability and versatili