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Evaluation of the First Judicial District Court Adult Drug Court:

Caste and the Court: Examining Judicial Selection Bias on Bench Assignments on the Indian Supreme Court

This paper is a study on the effect of caste on bench assignments on the Indian Supreme Court. The objective was to determine whether the Chief Justices have historically assigned associate justices to benches based on their individual castes – Brahmin or Non-Brahmin – in order to tilt the bias of the Court in either an elitist (Brahmin) direction or a non-elitist (Non-Brahmin) direction. Based...

The Least Activist Supreme Court in History? the Roberts Court and the Exercise of Judicial Review

Not too many years ago, scholars could reasonably speak of the U.S. Supreme Court as being among the most activist in American history. Both empirical and normative scholarship was driven by the sense of a Court that was aggressive in the assertion of its own supremacy and active in the exercise of the power of judicial review. The Court under Chief Justice John Roberts cannot be viewed in the ...

Economic Trends and Judicial Outcomes: A Macrotheory of the Court

We investigate the effect of economic conditions on the voting behavior of U.S. Supreme Court Justices. We theorize that Justices are akin to voters in political elections; specifically, we posit that the Justices will view short-term and relatively minor economic downturns—recessions—as attributable to the failures of elected officials, but will consider long-term and extreme economic contract...

Confirmation Bias in the United States Supreme Court Judicial Database

We ask whether the widely used direction of decision and direction of vote variables in the United States Supreme Court Judicial Database (USSCJD) are contaminated by confirmation bias, or have been affected by expectations about the likely effects of judicial preferences on case outcomes. Using a sample of generally comparable cases, we find evidence that the assignment of issue codes to these...

Evaluation of the Eleventh Judicial District Court San Juan County Juvenile Drug Court: Quasi-Experimental Outcome Study Using Historical Information Prepared for: The Eleventh Judicial District Court Prepared by: The Institute for Social Research, University of New Mexico