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Author:

Card, Lee Arthur, 1950- author.

Title:

The best courts money could buy : reform of the Oklahoma judiciary, 1956-1967 / Lee Card.

Publisher:

University of Oklahoma Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

vii, 163 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject:

Judicial corruption--Oklahoma--History--20th century.
Justice, Administration of--Oklahoma--History--20th century.
Oklahoma--Politics and government--20th century.
Judicial corruption.
Justice, Administration of.
Politics and government.
Oklahoma.
1900-1999
History.

Notes:

Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University of Oklahoma, 2016) issued under title: Scandal and reform : a historical study of corruption and reform in Oklahoma's court system, 1956-1967. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- A System in Need of Reform -- The State of the Court -- Prosecution and the Seeds of Reform -- The 1965 Legislature and the Impeachment of N. B. Johnson -- The Fall of McCarty, the Sneed Plan, and the Election of -- The Enactment of Legislative Reform and the Defeat of the Sneed Plan -- Oklahoma after Court Reform

Summary:

"Documents the bribery of Oklahoma Supreme Court justices in the 1950s and the subsequent 1967 enactment of judicial reform"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0806166312
9780806166315

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1141030561

LCCN:

2020006485

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)