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Adversity and Justice: A History of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (Great Lakes Books Series)

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Bankruptcy law is a major a part of the American legal landscape. More than 1,000,000 individuals and thousands of businesses sought relief in the USA’ ninety-three bankruptcy courts in 2014, more than twenty-seven thousand of them in the Eastern District of Michigan. Important business of great consequence takes place in the courts, yet they ordinarily draw little public attention. In Adversity and Justice: A History of the USA Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Kevin Ball takes a closer look at the history and evolution of this court.

Using a lot of sources from newspaper accounts and interviews to personal documentation from key people all through the court’s history, Ball explores not only the history of the court from its beginning in the late nineteenth century but also two major courthouse scandals and their significant and long-lasting effects on the court. The first, in 1919, resulted in the removal of a court referee for a series of small infractions. The second one used to be far more serious and resulted in the resignation of a pass judgement on and criminal convictions of the court’s chief clerk, one of his deputies, and one of Detroit’s most prominent lawyers.

The book culminates with a comprehensive account of the city of Detroit’s own bankruptcy case that used to be filed in 2013. Drawing on the creator’s expertise as both a longtime bankruptcy attorney and a political scientist, the book examines this landmark case in its legal, social, historical, and political contexts. Somebody with an interest in bankruptcy, legal history, or the city of Detroit’s bankruptcy case will be attracted to this thorough case study of this court.

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