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Author Urbom, Warren K

Title Called to justice : the life of a federal trial judge / Warren K. Urbom ; foreword by William Jay Riley
Published Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 360 pages) : illustrations
Series Law in the American West
Law in the American West.
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Rocky Road to a Judgeship -- 2. Growing Up -- 3. Looking for Answers and Finding Them -- 4. Practicing Law -- 5. Church and Family -- 6. Federal Trial Judge Gives Answers -- 7. Wounded Knee and the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 -- 8. Progressive Farmers Association Trial -- 9. Back to Normal -- 10. Judging throughout the Nation
Summary Early in his judicial career, U.S. District Judge Warren K. Urbom was assigned a yearlong string of criminal trials arising from a seventy-one-day armed standoff between the American Indian Movement and federal law enforcement at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. In Called to Justice Urbom provides the first behind-the-scenes look at what quickly became one of the most significant series of federal trials of the twentieth century. Yet Wounded Knee was only one set of monumental cases Urbom presided over during his years on the bench, a set that in turn forms but one chapter in a remarkable
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Subject Urbom, Warren K
SUBJECT Urbom, Warren K. fast
Subject Judges -- Nebraska -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Lawyers & Judges.
LAW -- Government -- Federal.
Judges
Nebraska
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
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Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012014821
ISBN 9780803244573
0803244576