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Appellate Capacity And Caseload Growth, Thomas B. Marvell Jul 2015

Appellate Capacity And Caseload Growth, Thomas B. Marvell

Akron Law Review

This article has two purposes. The first is to show that, indeed, the three categories of responses to caseload growth are the only feasible responses. This article argues that case-management techniques, another popular response, is of little or no use in reducing the substantial backlogs that result from the caseload growth. Instead of focusing on case management techniques one should focus on the judges - their number and their productivity - as sources of appellate court delay.


Response To Professor Parness And Mr. Reagle, Jack Grant Day Jul 2015

Response To Professor Parness And Mr. Reagle, Jack Grant Day

Akron Law Review

I subscribe to so much of the reform suggestions proposed by the authors that I believe my response can be most useful if confined to some emphasis or expansion of concurrent views, specific reference to disagreements and support for points of reform needed but not recommended.


Reforms In The Business And Operating Manner Of The Ohio Courts Of Appeals, Jeffrey A. Parness, Jack E. Reagle Jul 2015

Reforms In The Business And Operating Manner Of The Ohio Courts Of Appeals, Jeffrey A. Parness, Jack E. Reagle

Akron Law Review

This article will review, and comment upon, some of the techniques available to the Ohio appeals courts. The task of preparing this article was facilitated greatly by the many Ohio appeals court judges who responded to a survey letter, reproduced in the appendix, sent by the authors in the Summer of 1981. The results of this survey are incorporated in the following pages, though we are confident they do not represent the judges' last words. To promote further dialogue, we have deleted references to the names of the particular judges whose remarks are noted, and have instead assigned each judge …