Add to ORKGThe Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure turn fifty in 2018. During the Rules’ half-century of existence, the number of federal appeals by self-represented, incarcerated litigants has grown dramatically. This article surveys ways in which the procedure for inmate appeals has evolved over the past 50 years, and examines the challenges of designing procedures with confined litigants in mind. In the initial decades under the Appellate Rules, the most visible developments concerning the procedure for inmate appeals arose from the interplay between court decisions and the federal rulemaking process. But, as court dockets swelled, the circuits also developed local case management practices that significantly affect inmate appeals. And, in the 199...
This Article is part of the University of Miami Law Review’s Leading from Below Symposium. It canvas...
In 1948, Congress enacted 28 U.S.C. § 2255, which authorizes a motion for federal prisoners to “vaca...
Before the mid-1960\u27s, the federal courts frequently invoked the hands-off doctrine, a rule of ...
The Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure turn fifty in 2018. During the Rules’ half-century of exist...
In 1995, prison and jail inmates brought about 40,000 new lawsuits in federal court nearly a fifth o...
There are haves and have-nots in the federal appellate courts, and the haves get more attention. For...
Introduction: In Bell v. Wolfish, the United States Supreme Court held that, with respect to conditi...
Case management practices of appellate courts have a significant effect on the outcome of appeals. D...
article published in law reviewPrisoners often seek redress in federal courts through causes of acti...
Case-management practices of appellate courts define the judicial review of appeals. The circuit cou...
During the past two decades, federal courts have become involved in the supervision of state and loc...
This article uses panel data estimation techniques to examine the relation between the number of fed...
Although few dispute the appellate process\u27s centrality to justice systems, especially in the cri...
Inmates confined to correctional facilities have necessarily forfeited many of their civil rights. B...
This Article is part of the University of Miami Law Review’s Leading from Below Symposium. It canvas...
This Article is part of the University of Miami Law Review’s Leading from Below Symposium. It canvas...
In 1948, Congress enacted 28 U.S.C. § 2255, which authorizes a motion for federal prisoners to “vaca...
Before the mid-1960\u27s, the federal courts frequently invoked the hands-off doctrine, a rule of ...
The Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure turn fifty in 2018. During the Rules’ half-century of exist...
In 1995, prison and jail inmates brought about 40,000 new lawsuits in federal court nearly a fifth o...
There are haves and have-nots in the federal appellate courts, and the haves get more attention. For...
Introduction: In Bell v. Wolfish, the United States Supreme Court held that, with respect to conditi...
Case management practices of appellate courts have a significant effect on the outcome of appeals. D...
article published in law reviewPrisoners often seek redress in federal courts through causes of acti...
Case-management practices of appellate courts define the judicial review of appeals. The circuit cou...
During the past two decades, federal courts have become involved in the supervision of state and loc...
This article uses panel data estimation techniques to examine the relation between the number of fed...
Although few dispute the appellate process\u27s centrality to justice systems, especially in the cri...
Inmates confined to correctional facilities have necessarily forfeited many of their civil rights. B...
This Article is part of the University of Miami Law Review’s Leading from Below Symposium. It canvas...
This Article is part of the University of Miami Law Review’s Leading from Below Symposium. It canvas...
In 1948, Congress enacted 28 U.S.C. § 2255, which authorizes a motion for federal prisoners to “vaca...
Before the mid-1960\u27s, the federal courts frequently invoked the hands-off doctrine, a rule of ...