Rise of Judicial Management in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, 1955-2000University of Georgia Press, 1 Ιουλ 2010 - 576 σελίδες 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. |
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... Circuit's response to this appeal demonstrated that, even after the landmark ruling on graduate education, Inc. Fund lawyers had miles to go before they overturned school segregation at all levels.27 In January 1951 the chief judge of ...
... Judge Allred's brand of liberalism was rare in Texas politics by the 1950s, and if blacks ever entertained hopes ... Circuit. A three-judge panel, including two Texans, Chief Circuit Judge Hutcheson and Circuit Judge John R. Brown, and ...
... Judge Connally appeared to accept that it was his duty to enforce Brown , but he was never enthusiastic about desegregation . Fifth Circuit Judge John Brown re- called of his fellow Houstonian that , “ in his heart , Connally always ...
... judge charged that in these latest complaints “the colored plaintiffs do not seek the same treatment as is afforded white students, to which they are entitled.” Instead ... Circuit judges agreed with Judge Connally that the 28 chapter one.
Steven Harmon Wilson. The Fifth Circuit judges agreed with Judge Connally that the school officials had not intentionally disobeyed the 1960 order by enforcing the brother-sister rule. But because that rule created more problems than it ...
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Legislation Litigation and Judicial Economy | 50 |
The Rules and Exceptions of Border Justice | 93 |
Managing Our Federalism in the Southern District | 140 |
Judicial Management of Triethnic Integration | 189 |
Federal Criminal Justice on Trial in the 1970s | 233 |
Adjuncts and the Oversight of Corporate Misconduct | 281 |
Masters Magistrates and Managerial Judges | 327 |
Just Speedy and Inexpensive Resolutions | 355 |
Notes | 359 |
Selected Bibliography | 521 |
Index | 547 |
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