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Administration of Justice in a Large Appellate Court: The Ninth Circuit Innovations Project

Joe S. Cecil
January 1, 1985

A description of a series of innovations adopted by the Ninth Circuit court of appeals from 1980 to 1982. The report outlines the court's Submission-Without-Argument and Prebriefing Conference programs and its modifications in the calendaring of oral arguments, and it reviews the effects of these innovations on case processing and the circuit's workload.