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Full-Text Articles in Law
Perceptions Of Judicial Responsibility: The Views Of The Nine United States Supreme Court Justices As They Consider Claims In Fourteenth Amendment Noncriminal Cases: A Post-Bakke Evaluation, Arthur R. Landever
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
In this article, the author sketches each Justice by examining his expressed attitudes and silent concurrences in fourteenth amendment noncriminal cases, as well as his remarks in other, non-court settings. While judicial behavioralists have employed quantitative techniques focusing upon analysis of voting records, the author believes that use of the lawyer's traditional method--case and opinion examination-is more appropriate here. Each Justice's composite should tell us not only something about the individual Justice's views, but also something about the views of key blocs on the Court. By such an effort, we learn more about the range of the possible in urging …
The Role Of Judges In Life/Death Decisions For The Neurologically Impaired, H. Richard Beresford
The Role Of Judges In Life/Death Decisions For The Neurologically Impaired, H. Richard Beresford
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
The Massachusetts Supreme Court has recently ruled that decisions about withholding care from hopelessly ill, legally incapacitated patients must be made by judges. It clearly rejected the view that families and attending physicians should be empowered to make such decisions. In this respect, the ruling contrasts with that of the Quinlan case and highlights the issue of whether judges or physicians and families are better able to make medically and morally sound decisions respecting this class of patients.
The Allen Instruction In Criminal Cases: Is The Dynamite Charge About To Be Permanently Defused?, Paul Marcus
The Allen Instruction In Criminal Cases: Is The Dynamite Charge About To Be Permanently Defused?, Paul Marcus
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Justice John Paul Stevens : A11 Initial Assessment, Branch Y. Ball, Thomas M. Uhlma
Justice John Paul Stevens : A11 Initial Assessment, Branch Y. Ball, Thomas M. Uhlma
BYU Law Review
No abstract provided.
Disqalification Of Justices And The Constitutional Status Of The Judicial Budget: State Ex Rel. Bagley V. Blankenship, Kathleen Duffield
Disqalification Of Justices And The Constitutional Status Of The Judicial Budget: State Ex Rel. Bagley V. Blankenship, Kathleen Duffield
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Should Oral Argument On Appeal Be Abolished Unless Requested By The Court?, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Should Oral Argument On Appeal Be Abolished Unless Requested By The Court?, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Powell Speeches
No abstract provided.
Two Types Of Substantive Reasons: The Core Of A Theory Of Common-Law Justification, Robert S. Summers
Two Types Of Substantive Reasons: The Core Of A Theory Of Common-Law Justification, Robert S. Summers
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The Promise And The Performance Of The Missouri Plan: Judicial Selection In The Fifty States, Henry R. Glick
The Promise And The Performance Of The Missouri Plan: Judicial Selection In The Fifty States, Henry R. Glick
University of Miami Law Review
Attempts to improve the integrity of the judiciary have focused on the proper method of selecting judges. In this article, the author analyzes whether the Missouri Plan has achieved its expected goals: improving the selection process; emphasizing professional qualifications rather than political influence; and promoting superior decision-making by the bench.
The Eighteenth-Century Background Of John Marshall's Constitutional Jurisprudence, William E. Nelson
The Eighteenth-Century Background Of John Marshall's Constitutional Jurisprudence, William E. Nelson
Michigan Law Review
This analysis of Marshall's constitutional jurisprudence avoids the pitfalls of previous theories. It does not see the Federalist political program as the source of Marshall's constitutional doctrines and thus does not need to explain how Marshall qualified his political principles or how he convinced non-Federalist judges to accept them. Instead, this essay argues that legal, not political, principles underlay Marshall's jurisprudence, but it attempts to understand those principles in a manner consistent with the unavoidable twentieth-century assumption that law is a body of flexible rules responsive to social reality rather than a series of immutable, unambiguous doctrines derived from a …
Appellate Justice, Ruggero J. Aldisert
Appellate Justice, Ruggero J. Aldisert
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
Justice on Appeal is a pithy analysis of the problem facing appellate courts. Dragon hunters Carrington, Meador, and Rosenberg were not content to look at the problem from an armchair. Instead, they walked to the mouth of the cave; pulled the troublesome dragon into the light, counted its teeth, measured its girth and tail, and decided neither to kill it nor kiss it. They decided to try taming it. I agree with their analysis of the specimen, its size, its growth, and the urgent necessity to bring the beast under control. I have some modest disagreements with some of their …
Justice On Appeal—One Way Or Many?, Michael E. Smith
Justice On Appeal—One Way Or Many?, Michael E. Smith
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
After two centuries of our nation's existence, discussions of federalism are certain to sound familiar. The ground of argument has been worked so thoroughly, there is hardly a patch left unturned. Conventional watchwords suggest the competing interests: adaptability to local circumstances contrasted with efficiencies of scale, circumscribed experimentation contrasted with prevention of forum-shopping, local self-government contrasted with the cosmopolitan perspective. The most that can be done now, absent exceptional insight, is to display these choices in a fresh context.
What follows is yet another variation on the theme. It concerns the propriety, perhaps the desirability, of diversity among the federal …
Judicial Administration And Invisible Justice, Mary Murphy Schroeder
Judicial Administration And Invisible Justice, Mary Murphy Schroeder
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
My theme here is the conflict between the visibility of the appellate judge and recent procedural changes designed to cope with the quantum leaps in the numbers and complexity of cases. I will develop that theme, first, by suggesting the ways that three of the major controls on the system, namely the selection, evaluation, and discipline of judges, depend upon the exercise of recognizable and individual judicial responsibility; second, by illustrating how this "imperative" can be undermined if devices intended to cope with increased volume are adopted without vigilance; and finally by pointing up some approaches to permit courts to …
Book Reviews, Stephen L. Wasby, Herbert A. Johnson
Book Reviews, Stephen L. Wasby, Herbert A. Johnson
Vanderbilt Law Review
The Courts and Social Policy Author: Donald L. Horowitz
Reviewed by Stephen L. Wasby
Donald Horowitz's The Courts and Social Policy is a serious effort to deal with the question of judicial capacity. Horowitz talks first of the expansion of judicial responsibility, which he thinks is a departure from the traditional exercise of the judicial function, and then explores the sources of this growth, particularly expansive statutory interpretation. He believes that courts do not do well at interpreting the mixes of statutes, regulations, and local arrangements with which they are faced more and more frequently. "Griggs v. Duke Power Co.," …
Glimpses Of England, 1895: A Letter From Hoosier Judge David Demaree Banta, Katharine Kell
Glimpses Of England, 1895: A Letter From Hoosier Judge David Demaree Banta, Katharine Kell
David Banta (1889-1896)
An article profiling David Demaree Banta and a letter he wrote his son in 1895 from England in which he describes his trip.
Judicial Administration In A System Of Independents : A Tribe With Only Chiefs, J. Clifford Wallace
Judicial Administration In A System Of Independents : A Tribe With Only Chiefs, J. Clifford Wallace
BYU Law Review
No abstract provided.
General Equitable Principles Under Section 1-103 Of The Uniform Commercial Code, Robert S. Summers
General Equitable Principles Under Section 1-103 Of The Uniform Commercial Code, Robert S. Summers
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The Non-Precedential Precedent - Limited Publication And No-Citation Rules In The United States Courts Of Appeals, William L. Reynolds, William M. Richman
The Non-Precedential Precedent - Limited Publication And No-Citation Rules In The United States Courts Of Appeals, William L. Reynolds, William M. Richman
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Review On A Virginia Cause, William Hamilton Bryson
Review On A Virginia Cause, William Hamilton Bryson
Law Faculty Publications
A book review on A Virginia Cause by B. Lamb.
Crisis In The Courts: Proposals For Change, Griffin B. Bell
Crisis In The Courts: Proposals For Change, Griffin B. Bell
Vanderbilt Law Review
The popular conception of the crisis in the courts focuses upon the condition of the courts and particularly upon the increasing volume of disputes that are presented for resolution. For example,Judge Ruggero J. Aldisert of the Third Circuit, one of the busiest federal circuits, has observed: "The reality is that today there is a mad rush to the Federal courts." The available statistics reflect Judge Aldisert's observation. For instance, according to the most recent report of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, record numbers of cases have been filed in the circuit and district courts during the past …
Managing Civil Litigation: The Trial Judge's Role, William W. Schwarzer
Managing Civil Litigation: The Trial Judge's Role, William W. Schwarzer
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Judge Robert R. Merhige, Jr. - Strict Constructionist Weathers The Storm, Paul K. Campsen, P. Christopher Guedri, Jennings G. Ritter Ii, Edward H. Starr Jr.
Judge Robert R. Merhige, Jr. - Strict Constructionist Weathers The Storm, Paul K. Campsen, P. Christopher Guedri, Jennings G. Ritter Ii, Edward H. Starr Jr.
University of Richmond Law Review
On August 27, 1967, Robert R. Merhige, Jr., was commissioned as a United States District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, the embarkment upon what many members of the legal community have labeled a controversial judicial career. However, examination of Judge Merhige's numerous decisions reveals that his image as a disputatius public figure has been more than a function of his flare for vehemently enforcing pronouncements and policies of the Supreme Court. The man, who created fervor throughout this state and the South with his publicly chastised busing decisions of the early 1970s, has been a victim of …
Epieikeia: Equitable Lawmaking In The Construction Of Statutes, Raymond B. Marcin
Epieikeia: Equitable Lawmaking In The Construction Of Statutes, Raymond B. Marcin
Scholarly Articles
No abstract provided.
Prior Consistent Statements, Arthur H. Travers Jr.
The Business Of The Supreme Court Under The Judiciary Act Of 1925: The Plenary Docket In The 1970'S, Arthur D. Hellman
The Business Of The Supreme Court Under The Judiciary Act Of 1925: The Plenary Docket In The 1970'S, Arthur D. Hellman
Articles
During the last decade, the Supreme Court has been deciding 65 to 70 cases a Term after oral argument. That represents a sharp decline from the 1970s and 1980s, the era of the Burger Court, when the Court was deciding about 150 cases a Term. The Burger Court’s docket, in turn, reflected a shift from the 1960s, when the docket was smaller. In short, what is “normal” for the plenary docket varies from one era to another. The period of the Burger Court retains a special interest in that regard because that was the only period after World War II …
Prosecutorial Discretion, Plea Bargaining And The Supreme Court's Opinion In Bordenkircher V. Hayes, William T. Pizzi
Prosecutorial Discretion, Plea Bargaining And The Supreme Court's Opinion In Bordenkircher V. Hayes, William T. Pizzi
Publications
No abstract provided.
Judicial Immunity And Sovereignty, Robert F. Nagel
Justice Harold H. Burton And The Work Of The Supreme Court, David N. Atkinson
Justice Harold H. Burton And The Work Of The Supreme Court, David N. Atkinson
Cleveland State Law Review
Harold H. Burton served for thirteen years on the United States Supreme Court during a turbulent period of innovative constitutional policymaking. Hard working and open-minded, he was inevitably involved in the cross currents of small group interaction within the Supreme Court. Consequently, the purpose of this essay -relying on law clerk questionnaires and interviews -is to describe and evaluate his intra-Court behavior.
Judicial Overload: The Reasons And The Remedies , Maria Marcus
Judicial Overload: The Reasons And The Remedies , Maria Marcus
Faculty Scholarship
Animosity towards lawyers, perennial in our social history long before Watergate, parallels a contradictory and equally persistent belief in judges as problem-solvers for a variety of personal, economic, educational and political ills. An increasing number of litigants are bringing to the courts not only the class of disputes that has been the traditional fare of judicial decision-making, but also an array of issues that were formerly resolved in private meetings, at hospitals, in schools, or at home. The causes of this explosion of lawsuits and the possible buffers to an eventual implosion in our judicial system will be discussed below
Assuring "Detached But Passionate Investigation And Decision": The Role Of Guardians Ad Litem In Saikewicz-Type Cases, Charles Baron
Assuring "Detached But Passionate Investigation And Decision": The Role Of Guardians Ad Litem In Saikewicz-Type Cases, Charles Baron
Charles H. Baron
The author focuses this Article upon the aspect of the Saikewicz decision which determines that the kind of "proxy consent" question involved in that case required for its decision "the process of detached but passionate investigation and decision that forms the ideal on which the judicial branch of government was created." This aspect of the decision has drawn much criticism from the medical community on the ground that it embroils what doctors believe to be a medical question in the adversarial processes of the court system. The author criticizes the decision from an entirely opposite perspective, arguing that the court's …