Judiciary Act of 1925
The Judiciary Act of 1925 (also Certiorari Act or Judges' Bill , full title An Act To amend the Judicial Code, and to further define the jurisdiction of the circuit courts of appeals and of the Supreme Court, and for other purposes ) (43 Stat . 936) is an Act of the 68th United States Congress dated February 13, 1925.
One of his main goals was to reduce the number of cases in the Supreme Court . Until the law was passed, the parties had the right to appeal to the Supreme Court. It is true that as early as 1891 another appellate instance, the Circuit Courts , had been switched between the District Courts and the Supreme Court at the federal level . However, the annual number of cases remained high. With the 1925 Act, Section 237 (b) changed the court to the free acceptance procedure by Certiorari .
literature
- Felix Frankfurter , James M. Landis : THE SUPREME COURT UNDER THE JUDICIARY ACT OF 1925 . In: Harvard Law Review . tape 42 , no. 1 , 1928, pp. 1 .
- Arthur D. Hellman : THE BUSINESS OF THE SUPREME COURT UNDER THE JUDICIARY ACT OF 1925: THE PLENARY DOCKET IN THE 1970'S . In: Harvard Law Review . tape 91 , 1978, p. 1711 .
- Frank H. Sloss : MANDAMUS IN THE SUPREME COURT SINCE THE JUDICIARY ACT OF 1925 . In: Harvard Law Review . tape 46 , 1932, pp. 91 .
- Jonathan Sternberg : Deciding Not to Decide: The Judiciary Act of 1925 and the Discretionary Court . In: Journal of Supreme Court History . tape 33 , no. 1 , 2008, p. 1–16 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1540-5818.2008.00176.x .