The rise of judicial management in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, 1955-2000
"The Southern District of Texas offers an especially instructive model by which to study this transformation. Not only does it contain a varied population of Hispanics, African Americans, and whites, but its jurisdiction also includes an international border and some of the busiest seaports in the United States. Wilson identifies several areas of judicial management in which the shift has most clearly manifested itself. Using docket and case management, judges have attempted to rationalize the flow of work through the litigation process
Print Book, English, ©2002
University of Georgia Press, Athens, Ga., ©2002
History
xiv, 559 pages ; 24 cm.
9780820323633, 0820323632
49404415
The varieties of public school desegregation
Legislation, litigation, and judicial economy
The rules and exceptions of border justice
Managing "our federalism" in the Southern District
Judicial management of triethnic integration
Federal criminal justice on trial in the 1970s
Adjuncts and the oversight of corporate misconduct
Masters, magistrates, and managerial judges