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Justice System Journal
A journal of articles and notes about courts and court administration for practitioners and researchers in the field of judicial administration. Covers research approaches in the social sciences, management innovations, case analysis, and legal issues news.
Articles from Vol. 30, No. 2, 2009
Are District Courts the New Appeals Courts? Standards for De Novo Action and Appealing Patent Rulings to District Courts: Hyatt V. Doll
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Patent law and practicing before the specialized courts that deal with patent applications is an area of legal practice demanding expertise and often hidden from the public with little media coverage given to other areas of law. Yet, despite this relative...
From the Benches and Trenches Dealing with Outstanding Warrants for Deceased Individuals: A Research Brief
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Managing warrant databases effectively is an ongoing challenge for many local and state-level jurisdictions. Besides the complications of aliases and intentional and unintentional misinformation, warrant databases are often especially challenging to...
Full-Court Press: An Examination of Media Coverage of State Supreme Courts*
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This analysis explores how case facts and the characteristics of media and the judiciary affect news coverage of the courts. It examines newspaper coverage of the decisions of twenty state supreme courts during calendar year 1998 and matches relevant...
Individual Explanations for Serving on State Courts*
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Many studies examine the composition of state and federal judiciaries, but looking at who is currently serving on the bench only tells part of the representation story. To understand how the bench came to look as it does, one must step back and consider...
Judicial Departures and the Introduction of Qualified Retirement, 1892-1953*
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This study examines the effects of the 1919 introduction of qualified retirement allowing federal judges to retire rather than resign. Retired judges, unlike those who resigned, could perform judicial duties, and their retirement pay could not be diminished....
Judicial Free Speech versus Judicial Neutrality in Mid-Twentieth Century England: The Last Hurrah for the Ancien Regime?
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Gerry R. Rubin, "Judicial Free Speech Versus Judicial Neutrality in Mid-Twentieth Century England: The Last Hurrah for the Ancien Regime?" Law and History Review 27 (Summer 2009): 373-412.With all the attention given to what is permissible for state...
Letter from the Editor-in-Chief
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This past summer I had the pleasure of attending the National Association for Court Management's (NACM) Annual Conference in Boston, Massachusetts. While I have attended political-science conferences for many years, it was informative to attend a professional...
Out of the Sample and One Step Ahead: Forecasting Supreme Court Confirmation Votes
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We propose and test a model to forecast confirmation votes for Supreme Court nominees. Overall, the confirmation-vote model is a substantial step in the forecasting of the level of formal opposition (nay votes) in the Senate. Nominee-based characteristics-qualifications...
Putting Therapeutic Jurisprudence into Practice: The Growth, Operations, and Effectiveness of Mental Health Court*
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This article focuses on a court innovation for criminally involved people who are afflicted with serious mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or major depression. It describes a recently developed strategy for dealing with the challenges...
The Impeachment of Federal District Court Judge Samuel B. Kent
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Pursuant to the Constitution, federal officials can be impeached for "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors" (Art. II, § 4). In the history of the United States, two presidents, a senator, and a secretary of war have faced impeachment...
The Unique Challenges of Cross-Cultural Justice
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Special Issue, "The Unique Challenges of Cross -Cultural Justice," Judicature 92, no. 5 (March-April 2009): 190-248.This ten-article issue (also including a foreword and an introduction, each by a federal judge) addresses aspects of the justice system...
