Browsing by Subject "Judicial process -- United States"

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    • Altering Attention in Adjudication 
      Guthrie, Chris; Rachlinski, Jeffrey John; Wistrich, Andrew J. (UCLA Law Review, 2013)
      Judges decide complex cases in rapid succession but are limited by cognitive constraints. Consequently judges cannot allocate equal attention to every aspect of a case. Case outcomes might thus depend on which aspects of ...
    • The Constitutionality of Federal Jurisdiction-Stripping Legislation and the History of State Judicial Selection and Tenure 
      Fitzpatrick, Brian T. (Virginia Law Review, 2012)
      Few questions in the field of Federal Courts have captivated scholars like the question of whether Congress can simultaneously divest both lower federal courts and the U.S. Supreme Court of jurisdiction to hear federal ...
    • Deciphering Courts of Appeals Decisions Using the U.S. Courts of Appeals Data Base 
      George, Tracey E., 1967-; Sheehan, Reginald S., 1959- (Judicature, 2000)
      Is one circuit significantly more conservative or liberal than the others? Do circuit courts consistently avoid deciding the substance of certain appeals by concluding that the plaintiffs lack standing? Have state ...
    • The "Hidden Judiciary": An Empirical Examination of Executive Branch Justice 
      Guthrie, Chris; Rachlinski, Jeffrey John; Wistrich, Andrew J. (Duke Law Journal, 2009)
      Administrative law judges attract little scholarly attention, yet they decide a large fraction of all civil disputes. In this Article, we demonstrate that these executive branch judges, like their counterparts in the ...
    • Institutional Design and the Lingering Legacy of Antifederalist Separation of Powers Ideals in the States 
      Rossi, Jim, 1965- (Vanderbilt Law Review, 1999)
      This Article applies comparative institutional analysis to separation of powers under state constitutions, with a particular focus on the nondelegation doctrine and states' acceptance of Chadha-like restrictions on legislative ...
    • Other Disciplines, Methodologies, and Countries: Studying Courts and Crisis 
      George, Tracey E., 1967- (Missouri Law Review, 2004)
      How do governments and their citizens respond to fear and risk in times of crisis? Dr. Lee Epstein and Professor Christina Wells, in papers presented on the final symposium panel focus in particular on the Supreme Court's ...
    • Suing Courts 
      Serkin, Christopher; Bloom, Frederic (University of Chicago Law Review, 2012)
      This Article argues for a new and unexpected mechanism of judicial accountability: suing courts. Current models of court accountability focus almost entirely on correcting legal errors. A suit against the court would ...
    • "The Threes": Re-Imagining Supreme Court Decisionmaking 
      Guthrie, Chris; George, Tracey E. (Vanderbilt Law Review, 2008)
      In this Essay--the first in a series of essays designed to reimagine the Supreme Court--we argue that Congress should authorize the Court to adopt, in whole or part, panel decision making... With respect to the prospect ...
    • The Unmaking of a Precedent 
      Sherry, Suzanna (Supreme Court Review, 2003)
      How far can you stretch precedent before it breaks? The 2002 Term suggests that some Justices seem to think that treating precedent like silly putty is preferable to acknowledging that it might be in need of revision. But ...