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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...