En Bancs in the U.S. Courts of Appeals

美国上诉法院的全案

• 批准号: 0848235
• 负责人: Micheal Giles
• 金额: $ 13.93万
• 依托单位: Emory University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-05-01 至 2014-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0848235&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: En; Bancs; U.S.; Courts; Appeals

This project constructs and analyzes a data set consisting of selected case characteristics and outcomes for approximately 3600 en banc decisions by the U.S. Courts of Appeals between 1937 and 2008. As the courts of last resort for most litigants in the federal system, the U.S. Courts of Appeals generally conduct their work by sitting in rotating three-judge panels. For a small, but important, set of cases, judges will decide to re-hear the case and potentially sit en banc. For most circuits, en banc consideration involves the full complement of judges appointed to the appeals court. In one court (the Ninth Circuit), en banc cases are heard before fourteen randomly selected judges and the Chief Judge of the circuit. The en banc procedure involves the commitment of considerable time and resources on the part of the Courts of Appeals but little is known about the purposes for which the procedure is employed or the effects of this institutional design on the decision making of the judges of the Courts of Appeals. The analysis of these data will provide a systematic and comprehensive description of the uses of the en banc procedure. While federal rules indicate that the procedure is to be employed for consideration of cases involving significant questions and to resolve intra-circuit conflicts, it is unknown how frequently it has been used for these purposes as opposed to simply auditing the policy outcomes of three-judge panels. By combining the en banc data with extant data sets of decisions by the same judges in three-judge panels, the project also presents a rare opportunity to examine the effect of institutional context on decision making.

该项目构建并分析了一个数据集，该数据集由美国上诉法院在1937年至2008年之间由美国上诉法院进行大约3600份判决的数据集组成。作为联邦制度中大多数诉讼人的最后一项诉讼法院，美国上诉法院通常通过旋转三名法官的工作来进行工作。 对于一小部分但重要的案件，法官将决定重新审查此案，并有可能遭受审理。对于大多数巡回赛，考虑到任命上诉法院任命的法官的全部补充。在一个法院（第九巡回法院）中，在十四个随机选择的法官和巡回法官的首席法官之前就审理了案件。该法院涉及上诉法院的大量时间和资源的承诺，但对采用该程序的目的或该机构设计对上诉法院法官的决策的影响知之甚少。对这些数据的分析将提供对EN BANC程序使用的系统和全面描述。尽管联邦规则表明该程序应用于考虑涉及重大问题并解决电路内冲突的案件，但尚不清楚其用于这些目的的频率，而不是简单地审核三法官面板的政策结果。通过将同一法官在三法官小组中的同一法官的决定数据集结合在一起，该项目还提供了一个难得的机会来研究机构环境对决策的影响。