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Author : Carroll Seron
Release : 1983
Genre : Court administration
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Book Synopsis The Roles of Magistrates in Federal District Courts by : Carroll Seron
Download or read book The Roles of Magistrates in Federal District Courts written by Carroll Seron. This book was released on 1983. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carroll Seron
Release : 1985
Genre : Government publications
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Book Synopsis The Roles of Magistrates by : Carroll Seron
Download or read book The Roles of Magistrates written by Carroll Seron. This book was released on 1985. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kevin Lyles
Release : 1997-10-28
Genre : Law
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Book Synopsis The Gatekeepers by : Kevin Lyles
Download or read book The Gatekeepers written by Kevin Lyles. This book was released on 1997-10-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are more than 600 Federal district judges serving today, and they decide some 230,000 civil cases each year. About 90% of the decisions they reach are final. Lyles argues that these lower court judges not only influence the flow of information to the judicial hierarchy, but they formulate questions that influence how higher courts, including the Supreme Court, respond. As such they are key elements in the formulation and implementation of public policy. To cite a few examples, they desegregate school districts, run mental institutions and prisons, break up monopolies, and reapportion legislatures. Lyles begins by examining the structure and function of federal courts and detailing the history, operation, and purpose of the district courts. He then turns to the selection, nomination, and appointment of district judges. Lyles then analyzes the extent to which presidents might advance policy objectives through their judicial appointments to the district courts. After examining how African-American, Latino, and white judges, male and female, view their roles as policy actors, Lyles concludes with a discussion of the implications of the study. Important for students and scholars of contemporary public policy and the court system.
Author : United States. Administrative Office of the United States Courts. Magistrate Judges Division
Release : 1993
Genre : Government publications
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Book Synopsis The Selection and Appointment of United States Magistrate Judges by : United States. Administrative Office of the United States Courts. Magistrate Judges Division
Download or read book The Selection and Appointment of United States Magistrate Judges written by United States. Administrative Office of the United States Courts. Magistrate Judges Division. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Smith
Release : 1990-01-19
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis United States Magistrates in the Federal Courts by : Christopher Smith
Download or read book United States Magistrates in the Federal Courts written by Christopher Smith. This book was released on 1990-01-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for social scientists who study the judiciary, legal scholars, judges, and others who are interested in the workings of the federal courts, this volume offers a comprehensive examination of the role of U.S. magistrates--the relatively invisible subordinate judicial officers within the federal district courts. The study is unique in its use of an observation methodology: the author was able to study U.S. magistrates during all of their daily activities and observe their interactions with other actors in the federal judiciary. Particularly valuable are its insights into such functions as pretrial conferences, meetings with litigants, and other situations normally beyond the purview of scholars and the public. The author focuses throughout on both the development of the magistrates' varied roles and their consequences for the federal judicial system. After examining magistrates' roles within several representative courts in detail, the author analyzes the factors which influence the development of these diverse roles and identifies the specific effects--both planned and unplanned--that the subordinate judicial officers have upon the court system. Smith refutes a commonly held view that district judges control the definition of magistrates' roles and concludes that in some cases, especially with regard to the coercion of litigants, the magistrate system's effects cannot be seen to be completely beneficial. In addition, the book contains an in-depth study of the appointment process for magistrates complete with a case history of the merit selection committee process. The author documents the influence of district judges over the merit selection process, adding concrete support to scholarly arguments about the inherently political nature of judicial selection.
