Appellate Advocacy and Judicial Decision Making in the U.S. Courts of Appeals

美国上诉法院的上诉辩护和司法决策

• 批准号: 9819268
• 负责人: Susan Haire
• 金额: $ 4.97万
• 依托单位: University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-05-01 至 2002-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9819268&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Appellate; Advocacy; Judicial; Decision; Making

This study of decision making in the U.S. Courts of Appeals seeks to explore the extent to which individual attorneys are able to influence judicial opinions and case outcomes through skillful advocacy and issue framing as exhibited in their appellate briefs. In addition, this study will examine attorneys' influence on the transformation of issues from the trial to the appellate levels, and on courts' receptivity to certain arguments on appeal. By focusing on the informational inputs in the appeals process, this research will advance our understanding of the dynamic interaction between bench and bar.This pilot study will focus on cases decided with published opinion by judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta, Georgia from 1996-1998. It will explore the manner in which attorneys, through their briefs, are able to frame issues and arguments so as to influence the content of appellate court opinions, as well as case outcomes. Particularly, it will examine ways in which litigants' counsel strategically emphasize, or ignore issues, claims, precedent, and/or facts in order to shape the development of the appeal. The data will be derived directly from the trial court opinion, the attorneys' briefs, and the appellate court decision. These data will be augmented by a survey of the attorneys involved in the appeals. In addition, the data will permit an evaluation of the extent to which issue creation or suppression takes place in the appellate process, and if attorneys are able to influence such issue transformation. To control for variation in case content, this study will examine (2) decisions identified through a sampling procedure and (2) the universe of cases that raise claims in two narrowly defined issue areas over the time period. Combined, these data sets will provide an opportunity to examine informational inputs in the appeal process for 250 cases decided by the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

这项对美国上诉法院决策的研究旨在探讨各个律师能够通过熟练的倡导和发行上诉摘要中提出的框架来影响司法意见和案件结果的程度。 此外，这项研究将研究律师对从审判到上诉级别的问题转变的影响，以及法院对某些上诉论点的接受。 通过关注上诉过程中的信息投入，这项研究将提高我们对板凳和酒吧之间动态互动的理解。该试点研究将重点研究1996年至1998年从1998年至1998年的美国亚特兰大市第十一巡回赛的美国上诉法院发表意见决定的案件。 它将探讨律师通过简介能够构建问题和论点的方式，以影响上诉法院意见的内容以及案件结果。 特别是，它将研究诉讼人律师在战略上强调或忽略问题，主张，先例和/或事实以塑造上诉的发展的方式。 数据将直接源自审判法院的意见，律师的摘要和上诉法院的裁决。 这些数据将通过对上诉涉及的律师的调查来增强这些数据。 此外，数据将允许评估在上诉过程中发生问题或抑制的程度，以及律师是否能够影响这种问题转换。 为了控制案例内容的变化，本研究将检查（2）通过抽样程序确定的决策以及（2）在此期间在两个狭义的问题区域中提出索赔的案例宇宙。 这些数据集结合在一起，将为美国法院在第十一巡回上诉法院裁定的250起案件中的上诉程序中检查信息投入。