Classic Cases

Oversight of the Criminal Division (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1981

Philip Heymann, assistant attorney general in the criminal division of the Department of Justice, is under pressure from Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to provide them with files on several public corruption cases and to...

Oversight of the Criminal Division (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1981

Philip Heymann, assistant attorney general in the criminal division of the Department of Justice, is under pressure from Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to provide them with files on several public corruption cases and to...

Bill White and the Veterans Administration: Federal Version

Publication Date: January 1, 1981

In this disguised case, Jack Goldman, director of the Illiana Veterans Administration Hospital, and his assistant for administrative services, Bill White, are requested by the new VA administration in Washington, DC to offer a position in the...

Voting Rights Act of 1965: Summary Case

Publication Date: January 01, 1980

This case series examines the events that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Part A traces the development of voting registration drives in Selma, Alabama, and examines their role in furthering voting rights legislation...

Police Negotiations in Barkfield, MA (C)

Publication Date: January 01, 1980

This disguised case concerns contract negotiations between the town of Barkfield, Massachusetts, and its ten-officer police local. After an impasse was reached, the Joint Labor management Committee, a state-appointed standing committee with...

Police Negotiations in Barkfield, MA (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1980

This disguised case concerns contract negotiations between the town of Barkfield, Massachusetts, and its ten--officer police local. After an impasse was reached, the Joint Labor management Committee, a state--appointed standing committee with...

Police Negotiations in Barkfield, MA (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1980

This disguised case concerns contract negotiations between the town of Barkfield, Massachusetts, and its ten-officer police local. After an impasse was reached, the Joint Labor management Committee, a state-appointed standing committee with...

Legalizing Laetrile

Publication Date: January 01, 1980

This case describes the legalization of Laetrile, a purported natural cancer treatment, by the New Jersey legislature and the subsequent resistance by the state health department.Learning Objective:It considers both the policy dilemma of whether...

Labor/Mgt Relations & Civil Service Reform Act

Publication Date: January 01, 1980

The Civil Service Reform Act, which was signed into law by President Carter in 1978, constituted the first comprehensive revision of the civil service system since its inception in 1883. The case examines the reorganization of a military base,...

Controlling AFDC Error Rates (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1980

Five HEW secretaries, from the late sixties through 1979, struggled to implement "quality control" in the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program. This quality control aimed to reduce financially and politically costly errors in payments...

Controlling AFDC Error Rates (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1980

Five HEW secretaries, from the late sixties through 1979, struggled to implement "quality control" in the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program. This quality control aimed to reduce financially and politically costly errors in payments...

Americanizing the Vietnam War: Vietnam Documents

Publication Date: January 01, 1980

In 1964-65, the United States made a series of decisions that culminated in the commitment of large ground forces to South Vietnam for sustained offensive action. President Johnson thus effectively took over the defense of South Vietnam. This...