Live stream preview

Watch this video and more on OVID.tv

Watch this video and more on OVID.tv

Start your free trial

Already subscribed? Sign in

Rule of Law

Bullfrog Films • 47m

Directed by Dan Iacovella • Documentary • 2017 • 47 minutes

RULE OF LAW shares the story of a newly-disabled outlaw in rural Tennessee whose local court case on minor traffic violations evolves into a landmark class action lawsuit before the U.S. Supreme Court where the rights of 55 million people and the Americans with Disabilities Act itself are at stake. A lawyer from one of the smallest counties in the country represents the outlaw and takes it to the highest court in the land to debate issues of sovereign immunity and due process.

It reveals how questions of civil rights affecting a broad spectrum of people can arise out of the most unlikely sources, how a good lawyer should never ignore any client and should look for constitutional issues in whatever thorny problems his/her clients have, how slow the legal system is, how unresponsive government lawyers can sometimes be and how anyone, no matter what their history, along with a single small-town lawyer can work together to help millions of people.

Tags
ada, american (u.s.) studies, american studies, americans with disabilities act, americas, area studies, beverly jones, bullfrog films, citizenship, civil rights, class action lawsuit, community, constitutional law, criminal justice, disabilities, disabled outlaw, doc, due process, expository, george lane, health, healthcare, healthcare1, history, history of law, human rights, human rights law, landmark case, law and legal studies, martha lafferty, medicine and nursing, north american studies, ovid, ovid_ca, physical disabilities, politics and political science, rule of law, s_0041, s_0050, s_0054, s_0150, s_0175, s_0222, s_0263, s_0271, s_0278, s_0301, s_0306, s_0642, small-town lawyer, social issues, social movements and activism, social studies, sociology, sovereign immunity, tennessee, tennessee v. lane, the, the 21st century, title_nopqrs, title_r, u.s. government and politics, u.s. history, united states, william j brown, world regions

Up Next in Bullfrog Films

  • Sacred Cod
    1:04:41
    Sacred Cod

    Sacred Cod

    Directed by Steve Liss, Andy Laub, David Abel • Documentary • 2017 • 65 minutes

    For centuries, cod was like gold, driving men to extremes. Cod were so abundant in the waters off New England that fishermen used to say they could walk across the Atlantic on the backs of them, and generations of me...

  • School's Out
    35:56
    School's Out

    School's Out

    Directed by Lisa Molomot • Documentary • 2014 • 36 minutes

    No classroom for these kindergarteners. In Switzerland's Langnau am Albis, a suburb of Zurich, children 4 to 7 years of age go to kindergarten in the woods every day, no matter what the weather. This eye-opening film follows the forest k...

  • Shattered Sky
    57:00
    Shattered Sky

    Shattered Sky

    Directed by Steve Dorst & Dan Evans • Documentary • 2012 • 57 minutes

    Thirty years ago, scientists reported a hole in the ozone layer 'the size of North America.' The culprits were man-made chemicals called CFCs, which were prevalent in billions of dollars worth of refrigeration, air conditi...

×