Rationing Justice On Appeal: the Problems of the US Court of Appeals

Examines the problems and proposed reforms of the United States Courts of Appeals, discussing: A Brief History of the U.S. Courts of Appeals; Federal Appellate Design: Tradition and Ideal; Crisis of Volume, Congress Divides the Fifth Circuit; Congress Declines to Divide the Ninth Circuit: Intramural Forms Already Implemented: What the Courts of Appeals Have Done to Help Themselves; Proposed Intramural Reforms: What Else the Courts of Appeals Might Do to Help Themselves; Extramural Reforms of the Past, Possible Extramural Reforms of the Future; and Postscript for the Near Future. Includes detailed index, and tables of cases, statutes, and rules.