Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Paul Finkelman -- Part 1: Beginnings -- Chapter 1 The Willson Era: The Inception of the Northern District of Ohio, 1855-67 -- Chapter 2 A Political Show Trial in the Northern District: The Oberlin-Wellington Fugitive Slave Rescue Case -- Chapter 3 The Impact of the Northern District of Ohio on Industrialization and Labor: Liability Law and Labor Injunctions in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, 1870-1932 -- Chapter 4 The Trial of Eugene V. Debs, 1918 -- Part 2: The Modern Court -- Introduction to Part 2: Dan Aaron Polster -- Chapter 5 Bringing Brown to Cleveland -- Chapter 6 The Struggle for Gender Equality in the Northern District of Ohio -- Chapter 7 Religion in the Public Sector -- Chapter 8 From Euclid to the Development of Federal Environmental Law: The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio and the Regulation of Physical Space -- Chapter 9 Preserving Trust in Government: Public Corruption and the Court -- Chapter 10 The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio and the May 4, 1970 Shooting at Kent State University -- Chapter 11 When Law and Conscience Conflict: The Draft Nonregistration Case of United States v. Mark Arden Schmucker -- Chapter 12 The Trials of John Demjanjuk -- Chapter 13 Capital Litigation in the Northern District -- Appendix A: Historical Listing of Northern District Court of Ohio District Judges -- Appendix B: Historical Listing of Northern District Court of Ohio Magistrate Judges -- Notes on Contributors -- Index of Cases -- General Index.