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Unfairness In Access To And Citation Of Unpublished Federal Court Decisions, Peter Jan Honigsberg, James A. Dikel
Unfairness In Access To And Citation Of Unpublished Federal Court Decisions, Peter Jan Honigsberg, James A. Dikel
Golden Gate University Law Review
An unfair system has evolved over the past fifteen years in the federal courts. The federal courts changed the concept of stare decisis. In 1972, the Judicial Conference of the United States decided that they needed to reduce the increasing workload of the federal judges. The best way to do so, they thought, was to distinguish between decisions. Some would be worthy of publication and some would not be. Thus, federal judges were instructed to separate out those rulings which would be useful to future litigants or which did more than merely repeat and mechanically apply well-settled rules of law. …