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The federal courts are the world's most powerful judiciary and a vital element of the
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Students of judicial behavior have increasingly turned to strategic accounts to understand
judicial decision making. Scholarship on the Supreme Court and state high courts suggests …

Believers in an independent federal judiciary are battle-weary. A familiar refrain used to
comfort them is that partisanship, at least among lower court judges, is not tolerated. As …

One of the central institutional features of the United States courts of appeals is the use of
judicial panels to decide cases. Rather than having a single appellate judge decide each …

The ability of US Courts of Appeals to control the development of law within their respective
circuits has been strained by the practice of divisional sittings, the growing caseload at the …

Landis remarked that" great judiciary acts, unlike great poems, are not written for all time." 2
As democracies evolve through demographic, social, technological, and political changes …

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