Includes purposes and functions served by appellate courts; the evolution of American appellate courts; the problem posed by, and the appellate courts' responses to, the late 20th-century "crisis of volume" in appeals; one- and two-level appellate systems and their relationships; structures and procedures for maintaining consistency in legal doctrine; personnel involved in appellate decisions; procedures of appellate courts; changes in internal decisionals in response to appellate growth; proposals for restructuring appellate courts and modifying their jurisdiction, and procedures to enable them to function effectively amidst an ever-increasing volume of appeals.

Appellate Courts in the United States (Coursebook)

Meador, Daniel

Legal Education

West Academic Publishing

Remberton, a small Alabama town, is the setting for this 1970s story of class, change, divided love, death, honor and dishonor, and a lawyer's commitment to the law. A shocking chain of revelations is set in motion when tenant farmer's son Jesse Rooter comes back after thirty years, now a multi-millionaire. Embittered over having been treated by the town in his youth as a nobody, he is bent on revenge, but a strange kind of revenge. While there, he begins to suspect that the long-ago drowning of his hell-raising brother was not accidental. To investigate, he engages Noble Shepperson, the town's leading lawyer. Scandalous facts come to light, implicating prominent citizens. But even darker secrets emerge in their wake. Along the way, Noble Shepperson is torn by romantic entanglements with both a local divorcee and an English woman he met during World War II. In the end, Jesse's revenge and Noble's conflicted love are resolved with surprising twists.

REMBERTON: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Literary

iUniverse

This edition promises to redefine the canon of the study of appellate courts, continuing the comprehensiveness and increasing the depth of the First Edition. This edition of Appellate Courts provides teachers with choices that are suitable for a two- or three-unit course or a seminar. The book permits emphasis on either appellate jurisdiction and practice or on the structural and policy aspects of appellate court organization and administration. All the chapters have been revamped and updated, with coverage of appellate jurisdiction substantially expanded.
 Using both classic and new cases, the book examines theoretical and practical issues arising from the appellate courts’ dual roles to correct trial court error and to generate common law. Its coverage of the dramatic rise in the volume of appeals and the resultant institutional reforms far surpasses that of any other law school course book. Fresh materials present new perspectives on appellate structures, personnel, and procedures—preparing students to practice in the contemporary state and federal appellate courts. 
 This provocative book considers such issues as the delegation of responsibility to law clerks and staff attorneys, the threats to judicial collegiality, the selection of state and federal judges—including the regulation of judicial candidates’ speech, and the role and ethics of the appellate lawyer. It devotes a separate chapter to the U.S. Supreme Court’s discretionary jurisdiction while another chapter draws upon Professor Meador’s unique understanding of the English and German appellate systems to contrast those systems with our own.
 In short, this book is unique in not only exploring appellate jurisdiction and procedure but also in taking the measure of the appellate courts in all their dimensions as important institutions in the American legal order.

Appellate Courts: Structures, Functions, Processes, and Personnel

Baker, Thomas

Steinman, Joan

Rules & Procedures

Carolina Academic Press

This three-hole punched, alternative loose-leaf version of the hardbound book is printed on 8 ½ x 11 inch paper with wider margins and the same pagination — offered at a substantially lower price than the hardbound book. This edition promises to redefine the canon of the study of appellate courts, continuing the comprehensiveness and increasing the depth of the First Edition. This edition of Appellate Courts provides teachers with choices that are suitable for a two- or three-unit course or a seminar. The book permits emphasis on either appellate jurisdiction and practice or on the structural and policy aspects of appellate court organization and administration. All the chapters have been revamped and updated, with coverage of appellate jurisdiction substantially expanded.Using both classic and new cases, the book examines theoretical and practical issues arising from the appellate courts dual roles to correct trial court error and to generate common law. Its coverage of the dramatic rise in the volume of appeals and the resultant institutional reforms far surpasses that of any other law school course book. Fresh materials present new perspectives on appellate structures, personnel, and procedurespreparing students to practice in the contemporary state and federal appellate courts. This provocative book considers such issues as the delegation of responsibility to law clerks and staff attorneys, the threats to judicial collegiality, the selection of state and federal judgesincluding the regulation of judicial candidates speech, and the role and ethics of the appellate lawyer. It devotes a separate chapter to the U.S. Supreme Courts discretionary jurisdiction while another chapter draws upon Professor Meadors unique understanding of the English and German appellate systems to contrast those systems with our own.In short, this book is unique in not only exploring appellate jurisdiction and procedure but also in taking the measure of the appellate courts in all their dimensions as important institutions in the American legal order.

Appellate Courts: Structures, Functions, Processes, and Personnel: 2009 Supplement

"Meador's portrait of an American man on a long journey into his father's enigmatic past is engrossing and sensitively told." --Anne Rivers Siddons, Author of Colony
In a West German manor house, Robert Trepnitz Kirkman holds in his hand a long-lost secret a letter, a photograph, and his father's account of an incident in the Argonne forest during WWI. He anxiously waits for the opportunity to reveal his secret to the schloss's baroness. But intrigue runs thick through the walls of this cold grey house when he discovers she knows of the letter, the photograph, and much more. Set in the 1970s, His Father's House is a generational tale of politics, religion, history, romance, and mystery that relates in time across two World Wars and to the American Civil War. An odyssey through the history and lands of East and West Germany, its central character, an American law professor, becomes entangled in the affairs of a once powerful family. Thrust into this bizarre drama, he joins in the family's struggle to come together over religious, political, and emotional barriers. His obsession with the family's history grows as he begins to see the German schloss in the same light as his own family's antebellum plantation. Both with homes ravaged by war, power taken from their hands, and bedeviled by their own past, these two families and their homelands illustrate the hazards and denouement of the powerful falling from grace. Through the characters of Kirkman and the von Egloffsberg family, the story suggests a unique relationship between Germany and the American South. From relics found in his deceased father's house, Rob is linked to his father's experiences through his encounters with the aristocratic German family caught in the twentieth-century catastrophes of their fragmented world.

His Father's House

Genre Fiction

Pelican Publishing

This book describes the structure and functions of state and federal judicial systems within the United States. The primary mission of the book is to introduce beginning law students and lawyers from other countries to the basics of the federal and state court systems of the United States, but sufficient detail is provided to make the book a handy reference source for anyone doing research on American courts. The appendices present detailed information about the judicial personnel and different structures of the federal and state courts. This new edition reflects the changes in case management procedures, court personnel, and, in some instances, state court structure that have been made over the past decade to deal with changes in the types and numbers of cases being filed with the courts.

American Courts (Coursebook)

Mitchell, Gregory

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