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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... judicial biography , augmented where possible by oral history interviews . The lower court histories that have emerged in the past few years , such as Hall's and Rise's , have been useful guides to this work . Because my history fo ...
... judicial decisions . ” At the top of that agenda , he noted , the judges of the Southern District put " the promotion of Southeast Texas ' economic , social , and political development through private means . ” 14 The Southern District ...
... judicial management in this book. The first is docket management, through which judges sought to maintain orderly and ef- ficient case flow. A second variety of judicial management is case management, efforts by federal district judges ...
... judicial intervention for re- medial goals " structural reform . " According to Fiss , federal district judges seek to attain this goal through the extensive use of equitable instruments , especially in- junctions . 38 The structural ...
... judicial decisions . Significant social change came only with boycotts , marches , and martyrdom . 45 Nevertheless , Brown I removed the key constitutional underpinning from state - supported segregation - which existed across the ...
Περιεχόμενα
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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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