Anastasoff, Unpublished Opinions, and Federal Appellate Justice

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

Is Justice Really Blind? Race and Appellate Review in U.S. Courts

In this paper, I use two new data sets to demonstrate that black federal judges are consistently overturned on appeal more often than white judges. The racial gap is robust and persists after taking into account previous professional and judicial experience, educational backgrounds, qualification ratings assigned by the American Bar Association, and differences in partisanship. This study is th...

If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em: A Pragmatic Approach to Nonprecedential Opinions in the Federal Appellate Courts

A Federal Appellate System for the Twenty-First Century

In December 1998, the Commission on Structural Alternatives for the Federal Courts of Appeals issued a report and recommendations for Congress and the President. The commission resulted from ongoing controversy over splitting the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit The commissioners clearly suggested that the circuit remain intact but proposed three regionally based adjudicative divisio...

Bureaucratic Justice : an Early Warning *

To accommodate the staggering increase in federal litigation that has occurred in recent years, the federal judicial process has been gradually, but significantly, transformed. The number of federal judges has dramatically increased at both the trial and appellate levels.' The number of law clerks and "staff attorneys" employed in the courts of appeals also has grown dramatically.2 Moreover, an...