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，其中包括1937年至2008年美国上诉法院约3600个案件的特征和结果。 作为联邦系统中大多数诉讼当事人的终审法院，美国上诉法院通常通过轮流三名法官组成的小组进行工作。 对于一小部分但重要的案件，法官将决定重新审理案件，并可能全体开庭。对大多数巡回审判来说，全体审理涉及到被任命到上诉法院的全部法官。在一个法院（第九巡回法院），全体案件由随机挑选的14名法官和巡回法院首席法官审理。全体程序涉及上诉法院投入大量时间和资源，但人们对采用该程序的目的或这一制度设计对上诉法院法官决策的影响知之甚少。这些数据的分析将提供一个系统的和全面的描述使用的银行程序。虽然联邦规则表明，这一程序将用于审议涉及重大问题的案件和解决巡回法院内部的冲突，但不清楚这一程序被用于这些目的的频率，而不是简单地审计三名法官小组的政策结果。通过将银行数据与三名法官小组中相同法官的现有判决数据集相结合，该项目还提供了一个难得的机会来研究机构背景对决策的影响。