Decision-Making at the Court of Appeals Level Involving Religious Liberty Cases

Many studies have been completed on factors affecting judicial decisions. Studies have focused on civil rights cases, economic cases, criminal cases, sexual discrimination and obscenity cases, but no work has specifically looked at religious liberty cases. This work 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 cases. The explanatory power of this study is relatively low, but the results indicate that judges follow the law when making decisions in religious liberty cases.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2002

Author dc:creator

• Reeves, Susan Kay

Contributors dc:contributor

• King, Kimi L.
• Reban, Milan
• Campbell, Randolph B., 1940-2022

• Appellate courts -- United States.
• Judicial process -- United States.
• Freedom of religion -- United States.
• decision-making
• attitudinal model
• religious liberty
• race
• gender
• personal attributes

Statement dc:rights

• Public
• Copyright
• Reeves, Susan Kay
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 52142728
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3319/
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OAI identifier oai:identifier

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