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In the years since the publication of the fourth edition, there have been many important developments on the legal front. The Supreme Court has issued important decisions on presidential powers, freedom of religion, and personal liberty. Police shootings and the rise of Black Lives Matter has impacted the court system too. 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The book covers all the main subjects taught in the first year of law school, and discusses every facet of the American legal tradition, including constitutional law, the litigation process, and criminal, property, and contracts law.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-sanitized-data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-sanitized-data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-sanitized-data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTo illustrate how the legal system works, Feinman draws from noteworthy, infamous, and even outrageous examples and cases. We learn about the case involving scalding coffee that cost McDonald's half a million dollars, the murder trial in Victorian London that gave us the legal definition of insanity, and the epochal decision of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-sanitized-data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMarbury vs. Madison\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-sanitized-data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e that gave the Supreme Court the power to declare state and federal law unconstitutional. 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Levy\u003cspan class=\"author notFaded\" data-width=\"\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"contribution\" spacing=\"none\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-color-secondary\"\u003e(Author)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor nearly sixty years, the University of Oklahoma, in obedience to state law, denied admission to African Americans. Only in October 1948 did this racial barrier start to break down, when an elderly teacher named George McLaurin became the first African American to enroll at the university. McLaurin’s case, championed by the NAACP, drew national attention and culminated in a U.S. Supreme Court decision. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBreaking Down Barriers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, distinguished historian David W. 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