Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2023
Abstract
Federal judges have managed themselves out of the federal appellate process for ordinary appeals. Managing out refers to a management style where the boss makes the employee's work so intolerable as to induce her to quit; the employee's managed out instead of terminated. Something similar has been happening at the federal appellate courts over the last half century. A flood of ordinary, routine matters brought by (mostly) pro se litigants has spurred a managerial transformation at the federal appellate courts. And that transformation has mostly involved removing the federal judge from the ordinary work of the federal appellate courts.
Recommended Citation
Merritt McAlister, Managing Out the Federal Appellate Judge, 42 Rev. Litig. 165 (2023).
