PO 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Home Advantage, Federalist No. 78, United States District Court
15 Oct 2018
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Castle law - retreat to your property. Cases and justices both make way to the supreme court through the federal circuit courts : There are 13 appellate courts that sit below the us supreme courts which are called the court of appeal . And so the 94 federal circuit judicial districts are organized into 12 regional circuits each of which has a court of appeal. Epstein, martin, quinn, and segal says that supreme court justices who were appointed via this avenue tend to side consistently with their previous circuit courts. Bias - precedent - when a court makes a decision based on their past ruling. We need justices who reach decisions based on neutral sources or their own judgement rather than political preferences. Circuit effect how people in the appellate court turned supreme court judges are supposed to affirm decisions coming from the circuits they just left: the entrenchment of the norm of federal judicial experience:
