MANAGING OUT THE FEDERAL APPELLATE JUDGE

Federal judges have managed themselves out of the federal appellate process for ordinary appeals. Managing out refers to a management style where the boss makes the employee's work so intolerable as to induce her to quit; the employee's managed out instead of terminated. Something similar...

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Published inThe Review of litigation Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 165 - 193
Main Author McAlister, Merritt E
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Austin University of Texas, Austin, School of Law Publications, Inc 01.04.2023
Subjects
Appeals
Attorneys
Case management
Court hearings & proceedings
Federal court decisions
Management styles
Trials
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Summary:Federal judges have managed themselves out of the federal appellate process for ordinary appeals. Managing out refers to a management style where the boss makes the employee's work so intolerable as to induce her to quit; the employee's managed out instead of terminated. Something similar has been happening at the federal appellate courts over the last half century. A flood of ordinary, routine matters brought by (mostly) pro se litigants has spurred a managerial transformation at the federal appellate courts. And that transformation has mostly involved removing the federal judge from the ordinary work of the federal appellate courts.
ISSN:0734-4015