A Critical Assessment of the Cultural and Institutional Roles of Appellate Courts (Review Essay)

Reviewing, Daniel Meador et al., Appellate Courts: Structures, Functions, Processes, and Personnel (2d ed. 2006

Protecting the Right of Citizens to Aggregate Small Claims Against Businesses

Two years ago I ranted against the Supreme Court\u27s subversion of the Rules Enabling Act and its opposition to the benign aims of the twentieth-century progressive law reformers expressed summarily in Rule 1 of our Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.1 I observed then that the majority of the Justices of the Supreme Court appeared to have joined the Chamber of Commerce, aligning themselves also with Vice President Dan Quayle\u27s 1989 Council on Competitiveness2 that denounced effective civil procedure as an enemy of economic development.3 I was then commenting adversely on what the Court had done to transform Rule 8.4 I renewed my accusation last year5 in South Carolina while commenting on the Court\u27s ruling protecting a manufacturer from the local enforcement of New Jersey tort law by shortening the reach of that state\u27s courts\u27 jurisdiction over the claim of a local plaintiff who sought compensation for an injury caused by the defendant\u27s negligent construction of a tool shipped to New Jersey with the help of its insolvent marketing distributor.6 Now, for the third time in two years, I find myself protesting the Court\u27s identification with the Quayle Commission and the Chamber of Commerce in its 2011 subversion of Rule 23(b) (3), which provides for the aggregation of small claims.

An Administrative View of Model Uncertainty in Public Health

Dr. Carrington reviews several ways to deal with model uncertainty, including those failing to acknowledge any use of models. He then evaluates six such methods with regard to, e.g., transparency and cost of execution