Rationing Justice On Appeal: the Problems of the US Court of Appeals

Thomas E Baker, Justice Research Inst., Slate

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ISBN-13: 9780314034946

Last Updated: 2/28/1994

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Examines the problems and proposed reforms of the United States Courts of Appeals, discussing: A Brief History of the U.S. Courts of Appeals; Federal Appellate Design: Tradition and Ideal; Crisis of Volume, Congress Divides the Fifth Circuit; Congress Declines to Divide the Ninth Circuit: Intramural Forms Already Implemented: What the Courts of Appeals Have Done to Help Themselves; Proposed Intramural Reforms: What Else the Courts of Appeals Might Do to Help Themselves; Extramural Reforms of the Past, Possible Extramural Reforms of the Future; and Postscript for the Near Future. Includes detailed index, and tables of cases, statutes, and rules.

Features

Allows fast, easy, and on-point research
Analyzes the congressional preoccupation with the intermediate tier
Discusses the "crisis of volume" in cases facing the Courts of Appeals
Examines the avoidance and delay of appellate reform
Examines the division of the Fifth Circuit, and the refused division of the Ninth Circuit
Identifies and summarizes the problems and proposed reforms of the United States Courts of Appeals
Includes detailed index, and tables of cases, statutes, and rules
Updated as needed