Corralling Constitutional Fact: De Novo Fact Review in the Federal Appellate Courts

The Fall and Rise of Specialized Federal Constitutional Courts

Most constitutional challenges in federal court to federal statutes are litigated in the familiar pattern of a decision by a single U.S. District Judge, followed by an appeal to a three-judge panel of one of the U.S. Court of Appeals, followed by the filing of a writ of certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court, which has discretion to grant or deny the writ. Sometimes, however, Congress requires a ...

Female Judges Matter: Gender and Collegial Decisionmaking in the Federal Appellate Courts

Studying the Federal Appellate System

Judicial Opinions and Appellate Advocacy in Federal Courts - One Judge's Views

Dagga: A review of fact and fancy.

'Dagga' is our word for marihuana, hashish, bhang, or Cannabis sativa L. But dagga is also the name applied to 14 species of the plant leonotis, indigenous and common in South Africa. The word has come into our English language via Afrikaans which derived it from pure Hottentot 'daga'. It is only assumed that the idea in the Hottentot mind which attached the word to the plant cannabis had to do...