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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... issues . The latter , especially in the form of civil rights litigation , began to appear on dockets in numbers too great to ignore . 16 This book takes up where Zelden's left off , at a time in the middle of the twenti- eth century ...
... issue in America , and the federal courts , especially in the South , were at the forefront of the very public controversy . The attention to administrative detail demanded by desegregation cases came to blend the district judge's ...
... issue an injunction to desegregate the district . Brown appealed Kennerly's deci- sion , in the apparent hope that Sweatt had set a new standard . The Fifth Circuit's response to this appeal demonstrated that , even after the landmark ...
... issue a single decree . But the logical end that Hutcheson saw in Brown's claim against La Grange ISD— -federal judicial supervision over a state institution as elemental as the school system— would have set the federal courts on a ...
... issue in the courts . George T. Nelson , a Houston barber and longtime NAACP volunteer , persuaded Mary Alice Benjamin to attempt to enroll her eight - year - old daughter , Delores Ross , in the all - white Sherman Elementary ...
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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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