The White Commission and the Federal Circuit.(Commission on Structural Alternatives for the Federal Courts of Appeals)

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, September, 2000 by Tobias, Carl

INTRODUCTION

The Commission on Structural Alternatives for the Federal Courts of Appeals, or White Commission,(1) ("the Commission") recently issued a report and recommendations for Congress and the President after studying the appellate courts for a year.(2) The Commission investigation emphasized the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, as Congress had instructed. The centerpiece of the Commission's recommendations was a divisional arrangement for the Ninth Circuit and the remaining appellate courts as their caseloads increase.(3) Notwithstanding this focus on the Ninth Circuit, the commissioners compiled a substantial amount of objective empirical data and some subjective information on the other regional circuits, while proffering...

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