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According to author Alexander (emeritus, history, U. of Dayton), the development of the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, one of 91 US district courts, illustrates the transformation of federal district courts from sleepy institutions--hearing a few land title disputes, federal attempts to collect penalties, and other relatively inconsequential cases--to major arbiters of national and state power ruling on such economically and socially significant issues as corporate abuse and antitrust violations, the enforcement of the draft and wartime restrictions, and the desegregation of schools. She examines the types of litigation that the court has dealt with, its judges, and the substantive and procedural transformations of the court, narrating a 200-year history and arguing that the court has increasingly come to see itself as a protector of individual rights under the Constitution. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)