Rise Of Judicial Management In The U S District Court Southern District Of Texas 1955 2000

Author : Steven Harmon Wilson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780820327280

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Rise of Judicial Management in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, 1955-2000 by Steven Harmon Wilson Pdf

This is the first book-length study of a federal district court to analyze the revolutionary changes in its mission, structure, policies, and procedures over the past four decades. As Steven Harmon Wilson chronicles the court's attempts to keep pace with an expanding, diversifying caseload, he situates those efforts within the social, cultural, and political expectations that have prompted the increase in judicial seats from four in 1955 to the current nineteen. Federal judges have progressed from being simply referees of legal disputes to managers of expanding courts, dockets, and staffs, says Wilson. The Southern District of Texas offers an especially instructive model by which to study this transformation. Not only does it contain a varied population of Hispanics, African Americans, and whites, but its jurisdiction includes an international border and some of the busiest seaports in the United States. Wilson identifies three areas of judicial management in which the shift has most clearly manifested itself. Through docket and case management judges have attempted to rationalize the flow of work through the litigation process. Lastly, and most controversially, judges have sought to bring "constitutionally flawed" institutions into compliance through "structural reform" rulings in areas such as housing, education, employment, and voting. Wilson draws on sources ranging from judicial biography and oral-history interviews to case files, published opinions, and administrative memoranda. Blending legal history with social science, this important new study ponders the changing meaning of federal judgeship as it shows how judicial management has both helped and hindered the resolution of legal conflicts and the protection of civil rights.

Author : Roberta Sue Alexander
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : District courts
ISBN : 9780821416020

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A Place of Recourse by Roberta Sue Alexander Pdf

The First History Of A Federal District Court in a midwestern state, A Place of Recourse explains a district court's function and how its mission has evolved. The court has grown from an obscure institution adjudicating minor debt and land disputes to one that plays a central role in the political, economic, and social lives of southern Ohioans. In tracing the court's development, Alexander explores the central issues confronting the district court judges during each historical era. She describes how this court in a non-slave state responded to fugitive slave laws and how a court whose jurisdiction included a major coal-mining region responded to striking workers and the unionization movement. The book also documents judicial responses to Prohibition, New Deal legislation, crime, mass tort litigation, and racial desegregation. The history of a court is also the history of its judges. Accordingly, Alexander provides historical insight on current and past judges. She details behind-the-scenes maneuvers in judicial appointments and also the creativity some judges displayed on the bench - such as Judge Leavitt, who adopted admiralty law to deal with the problems of river traffic. A Pla

Author : Jeffrey Brandon Morris
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199772414

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Leadership on the Federal Bench by Jeffrey Brandon Morris Pdf

"Considers the ways a particularly gifted federal judge has seized the opportunities and tools available to federal trial judges to make policy which has had a national impact. Weinstein, a leading authority on evidence, procedure, and class actions, who has handled cased involving segregation, nuclear reactors, abused mothers and the mob, is an apt subject for studying the influence of federal trial judges"--Jacket.

Author : Charles L. Zelden
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781851097074

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The Judicial Branch of Federal Government by Charles L. Zelden Pdf

This volume in ABC-CLIO's About Federal Government set looks at the history and daily operations of the federal judiciary, from district courts, to courts of appeal, to the Supreme Court. The Judicial Branch of Federal Government: People, Process, and Politics shows how the federal courts act as interpreters of the law, definers of rules, and shapers of policy, covering the judiciary throughout U.S. history and as it functions today. In one concise yet comprehensive resource, The Judicial Branch of Federal Government describes the constitutionally ascribed roles and structures of the courts. It looks at the men and women who serve on the federal bench (who they are and how they are appointed), as well as the fascinating relationship of the federal courts with the legislative and executive branches and with the 50 state court systems.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Courts
ISBN : PURD:32754077957391

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Initiating a Federal Court Historical Program by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christopher P. Banks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781440841460

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The State and Federal Courts by Christopher P. Banks Pdf

How does the American judiciary impact the development of legal and social policies in the United States? How are the state and federal court systems constructed? This book answers these questions and many others regarding politics, the U.S. courts, and society. This single-volume work provides a comprehensive and contemporary treatment of the historical development of state and federal courts that clearly documents how they have evolved into significant political institutions. It addresses vital and highly relevant subjects such as the constitutional origins of courts, the nature of judicial selection and service, and the organization of courts and their administration. The book explains civil and criminal legal proceedings, the political impact of judicial rulings, and the restraints placed upon the exercise of judicial powers. Readers will come away with an understanding of the key principles of constitutional interpretation and judicial review as well as judicial independence, what factors affect access to courts, the underlying politics of state judicial campaigns, and the confirmation of presidential appointments to the federal bench. The book covers historical and contemporary court perspectives on major issues, such as same-sex marriage, the Affordable Care Act, campaign financing, gun rights, free speech and religious freedom, racial discrimination, affirmative action, criminal procedure and punishments, property rights, and voting rights.

Author : Michael A. Olivas
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781558854765

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Colored Men and Hombres Aquí by Michael A. Olivas Pdf

This collection of ten essays commemorates the 50th anniversary of an important but almost forgotten U.S. Supreme court case, Hernandez v. Texas, 347 US 475 (1954), the major case involving Mexican Americans and jury selection, published just before Brown v. Board of Education in the 1954 Supreme Court reporter. This landmark case, the first to be tried by Mexican American lawyers before the U.S. Supreme Court, held that Mexican Americans were a discrete group for purposes of applying Equal Protection. Although the case was about discriminatory state jury selection and trial practices, it has been cited for many other civil rights precedents in the intervening 50 years. Even so, it has not been given the prominence it deserves, in part because it lives in the shadow of the more compelling Brown v. Board case. There had been earlier efforts to diversify juries, reaching back at least to the trial of Gregorio Cortez in 1901 and continuing with efforts by the legendary Oscar Zeta Acosta in Los Angeles in the 1960s. Even as recently as 2005 there has been clear evidence that Latino participation in the Texas jury system is still substantially unrepresentative of the growing population. But in a brief and shining moment in 1954, Mexican-American lawyers prevailed in a system that accorded their community no legal status and no respect. Through sheer tenacity, brilliance, and some luck, they showed that it is possible to tilt against windmills and slay the dragon. Edited and with an introduction by University of Houston law scholar Michael A. Olivas, Colored Men and Hombres Aqui is the first full-length book on this case. This volume contains the papers presented at the Hernandez at 50conference which took place in 2004 at the University of Houston Law Center and also contains source materials, trial briefs, and a chronology of the case.

Author : Peter Charles Hoffer,Williamjames Hoffer,N. E. H. Hull
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199387908

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The Federal Courts by Peter Charles Hoffer,Williamjames Hoffer,N. E. H. Hull Pdf

There are moments in American history when all eyes are focused on a federal court: when its bench speaks for millions of Americans, and when its decision changes the course of history. More often, the story of the federal judiciary is simply a tale of hard work: of finding order in the chaotic system of state and federal law, local custom, and contentious lawyering. The Federal Courts is a story of all of these courts and the judges and justices who served on them, of the case law they made, and of the acts of Congress and the administrative organs that shaped the courts. But, even more importantly, this is a story of the courts' development and their vital part in America's history. Peter Charles Hoffer, Williamjames Hull Hoffer, and N. E. H. Hull's retelling of that history is framed the three key features that shape the federal courts' narrative: the separation of powers; the federal system, in which both the national and state governments are sovereign; and the widest circle: the democratic-republican framework of American self-government. The federal judiciary is not elective and its principal judges serve during good behavior rather than at the pleasure of Congress, the President, or the electorate. But the independence that lifetime tenure theoretically confers did not and does not isolate the judiciary from political currents, partisan quarrels, and public opinion. Many vital political issues came to the federal courts, and the courts' decisions in turn shaped American politics. The federal courts, while the least democratic branch in theory, have proved in some ways and at various times to be the most democratic: open to ordinary people seeking redress, for example. Litigation in the federal courts reflects the changing aspirations and values of America's many peoples. The Federal Courts is an essential account of the branch that provides what Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Judge Oliver Wendell Homes Jr. called "a magic mirror, wherein we see reflected our own lives."

Author : Elizabeth Lee Thompson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Law
ISBN : 0820326240

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The Reconstruction of Southern Debtors by Elizabeth Lee Thompson Pdf

Based on a careful empirical study of nearly four thousand cases filed in three southern federal districts, this book focuses on how the Bankruptcy Act of 1867 helped shape the course and outcome of Reconstruction. Although passed by a Republican-dominated Congress that was commonly viewed as punitive toward the post-Civil War South, the Bankruptcy Act was a great benefit to southerners. In this first study of the operation of the 1867 Act, Elizabeth Lee Thompson challenges previous works, which maintain that nineteenth-century southerners uniformly opposed federal bankruptcy laws as threatening extensions of federal power. To the contrary, Thompson finds that southerners, faced with the war’s devastation, were more likely to file for bankruptcy than debtors in other parts of the country. The Act thus was the major piece of federal economic legislation that benefited southerners during Reconstruction. Thompson determines that because the vast majority of the Bankruptcy Act’s southern beneficiaries were propertied white men, the legislation served to stabilize and entrench the postwar economic--and thus social and political--power of the sector that included those who were recently leading secessionists and Confederates. Their participation in a federal process, through federal tribunals, during an era of intense white southern opposition to policies emanating from Washington reveals the complex interaction of states' rights ideology and self-interest. However, Thompson shows, white southerners ultimately sacrificed neither in relation to the Bankruptcy Act. After thousands had received economic relief through the statute and the number of filings had slowed to a trickle, southern congressmen supported the Act’s repeal in 1878.

Author : Wendell Holmes Stephenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UVA:X006168238

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The Journal of Southern History by Wendell Holmes Stephenson Pdf

Includes section "Book reviews."

Author : Rose Arny
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1816 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015054026961

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Forthcoming Books by Rose Arny Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1426 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Books
ISBN : UOM:39015066121404

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Book Review Index by Anonim Pdf

Every 3rd issue is a quarterly cumulation.

Author : James D. Schmidt
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 082032034X

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Free to Work by James D. Schmidt Pdf

In this intriguing and innovative work, James D. Schmidt examines federal efforts to establish "free labor" in the South during and after the Civil War by exploring labor law in the antebellum North and South and its role in the development of a capitalist labor market. Identifying the emergence of conservative, moderate, and liberal stances on state intervention in the labor market, Schmidt develops three important case studies--wartime Reconstruction in Louisiana, the Thirteenth Amendment, and the Freedmen's Bureau--to conclude that the reconstruction of free labor in the South failed in large part because of the underdeveloped and contradictory state of labor law. The same legal principles, Schmidt argues, triumphed in the postwar North to produce a capitalist market in labor.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2576 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025417838

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Books in Print Supplement by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1320 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063988104

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Current Law Index by Anonim Pdf