![]() | Courts of Appeals in the Federal Judicial System: A Study of the Second, Fifth, and District of Columbia Circuits Subjects: Appellate courts -- United States; United States. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; United States. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; United States. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; Judicial process -- United States; Courts of Appeals were designed to be a unifying force in American law and politics, but they also contribute to decentralization and regionalization of federal law. Woodford Howard studies three aspects of this problem: first, what binds the highly decentralized federal courts into a judicial system; second, what controls the discretion of judges in making law and policy; and third, how can quality judicial decisions be maintained under heavy-volume pressure. |
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