The United States courts of appeals generally have jurisdiction over only" final decisions" by
a district court.'Most litigants must therefore wait until the end of proceedings in the district …

Most of the law of federal appellate jurisdiction comes from judicial interpretations of 28 USC
§ 1291. That statute gives the courts of appeals jurisdiction over only" final decisions" of the …

Federal courts of appeals usually review district court orders only after the entry of final
judgment. There are, however, a number of statutory exceptions to the final judgment rule …

The adoption of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in 1938 may be regarded as one of the
great landmarks of procedural reform in the United States. The many innovations and …

The purpose of this article is to outline the jurisdictional framework which governs the civil
business of New York's two major levels of appellate courts--the Court of Appeals and the …

I 0 NE of the most extensive fields of legal procedure is that which deals with appellate
review. No part of the law is more deeply incrusted with the relics of ancient customs and …

Although they operate within some legislatively imposed constraints on their powers of
review, appellate courts basically control the timing, the standards, and the scope of review …

The burgeoning caseload of the US courts of appeals, which has risen more rapidly than
has the number of appellate judges, has caused a problem for these mandatory jurisdiction …

Increased filings in the appellate courts of this country have caused a crisis which threatens
to undermine the traditional concept of appellate review and justice. Concern which three or …

Judge Cardozo's Nature of the Judicial Process' provided for the substance of decision
making. The time is also ripe for exercising the mind on grand issues of designing the basic …