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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"courts of appeals"”.
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The Role of the U.S. Courts of Appeals in Legal Development: An Empirical Analysis
<p>What are the causes and consequences of legal development? In recent years courts scholars have begun to address these broad and challenging questions, yet there is still much work to be done. The intermediate level of the federal court system: a.k.a., circuit courts) provides an institutional …
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Judging the Bureaucrats: Understanding the Dynamics of Court-Agency Interaction
… resulting from the interaction between U.S. Courts of Appeals and federal administrative agencies impact the lives of thousands of individuals on a daily basis. Thus, understanding the factors that influence this process is important for both empirical and normative reasons. To further this …
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Citizenship Education and the First Amendment in Public Schools
This study used three models of education (indoctrination, the marketplace of ideas, and the socratic method) to analyze federal circuit courts' of appeals cases which dealt with public school students' First Amendment right to speech. Cases were grouped according to the subject matter (underground …
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Decision-Making at the Court of Appeals Level Involving Religious Liberty Cases
… examines the factors affecting United States Courts of Appeals judges' decision-making in religious liberty cases. I hypothesize that gender, race, religious background, prior judicial experience, circuit, region and litigant status will all influence the way judges vote in religious liberty …
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The Communication of Law in the Digital Environment: Stability and Change Within the Concept of Precedent
"Faced with the increasing population of judicial decisions in the 1970s the federal appellate courts adopted no publication and no citation rules. The rules were an attempt to control the amount of case information in the legal system. Case populations have expanded since. Placing unpublished …
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Essays in Political Economy
… to safeguard against unfavorable distributions of individual preferences. Chapter 2, ``Discovery through Trial Balloons,'' examines how correlation between different projects affects information disclosure by a principal who designs a bundle of projects that an agent can then choose to approve. …
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Placing Federal District Courts in the Judicial Hierarchy
… and Vines: 1967) complained that federal courts have seldom been investigated as a system of interactions," the same problem continues to plague judicial scholarship, particularly concerning federal district courts. Viewed as the sum of its three essays, this dissertation project seeks to …
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International Law In the Supreme Court of the United States: An Empirical Analysis
… that other considerations, such as the interests of the United States, weigh more heavily on judges.</p> <p>Legal scholars have anecdotally noted a similar trend in cases involving international law. This paper, part of a doctoral dissertation, wishes to put these anecdotal observations to the …
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The Constitutionality of Dress Code and Uniform Policies
… criteria for determining the constitutionality of public school dress codes based on an examination of relevant case law. The study addresses the following underlying questions: (1) Do students have a constitutional right to freedom of choice regarding their personal dress and grooming in public …
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Judicial Deference to Administrative Statutory Interpretation in the Modern American Administrative State
<p>The American administrative state of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries is defined by deference by federal courts to administrative agencies. The political science and (especially) legal literatures have long discussed how federal courts defer to agencies, but little attention has been …
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Judicial Deference To Administrative Statutory Interpretation In The Modern American Administrative State
<p>The American administrative state of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries is defined by deference by federal courts to administrative agencies. The political science and (especially) legal literatures have long discussed how federal courts defer to agencies, but little attention has been …
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Constitutional origins of the federal judiciary.
… examines the constitutional underpinnings of twentieth-century developments in the structure and function of the federal judicial system. In the half-century between 1891 and 1939, the federal judiciary underwent its first complete reorganization since the First Congress passed the …