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1. Joseph N. Akrotirianakis, Paul Garo Arshagouni and Zareh A. Jaltorossian, Jerry-building the Road to the Future: an Evaluation of the White Commission Report on Structural Alternatives for the Federal Courts of Appeals, 36 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 355(1999)
   
    

    

2. Eugene R. Anderson, Mark Garbowski, Daniel J. Healy, Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire: The Emergence of Depublication in the Wake of Vacatur, 4 J. APP. PRAC. & PROC. 475 (2002)
   
    
3. Richard S. Arnold, The Future of the Federal Courts, 60 MOLR 533 (1995)
   
    
4. Richard S. Arnold, Unpublished Opinions: A Comment, 1 J. APP. PRAC. & PROC. 219(1999)
   
    
5. Thomas E. Baker, Intramural Reforms: How the U.S. Courts of AppealsS Have Helped Themselves, 22 FLA. ST. U.L. REV. 913 (1995)
   
    
6. Paige M. Baker, Depublication: The New Starchamber, 18 WESTERN STATE UNIV. L. REV 313 (1990)
   
    
7. Amy C. Barrett, Stare Decisis and Due Process, 74 U. COLO. L. REV. 1011 (2003)
   
    
8. Stephen R. Barnett, No-citation Rules under Siege: A Battlefield Report and Analysis, 5 J. APP. PRAC. & PROC, 473(2003)
   
    
9. Douglas A. Berman and Jeffrey O. Cooper, In Defense of Less Precedential Opinions: a Reply to Chief Judge Martin, 60 Ohio St. L.J. 2025 (1999)
   
    
10. John P. Borger, Chad M. Oldfather, Anastasoff v. US and the Debate over Unpublished Decisions, 36 TORT & INS. L.J. 899 (2001)
    
     
11. Jerome I. Braun, Eighth Circuit Decision Intensifies Debate Over Publication and Citation of Appellate Opinions, 84 JUDICATURE 90 (2000)
    
     
12. Myron H. Bright, The Power of the Spoken Word: In Defense of Oral Argument, 72 IOWA L. REV. 35 (1986)
    
     
13. Richard B. Cappalli, The Common Law's Case Against Non-precedential Opinions, 76 S. CAL. L. REV. 755(2003)
    
     
14. Charles E. Carpenter, Jr., Having Faced the Circuit-Splitting Conundrum - What About More Judges, Less Staff? 15 J. L. & POLITICS 531( 1999)
    
     
15. Charles E. Carpenter, Jr., The No-Citation Rule for Unpublished Opinions: Do the Ends of Expediency for Overloaded Appellate Courts Justify the Means of Secrecy? 50 S.C. L. REV. 235 (1998)
    
     
16. Paul D. Carrington , Crowded Dockets and the Courts of Appeals: the Threat to the Function of Review and the National Law, 82 HARV. L. REV. 542 (1969)
    
     
17. Jeffrey O. Cooper, Passive Virtues and Casual Vices in the Federal Courts of Appelas, 66 BROOKLYN L. REV. 685 (2000)
    
     
18. David R. Dow and Bridget T. McNeese, Invisible Executions: A Preliminary Analysis of Publication Rates in Death Penalty Cases in Selected Jurisdictions, 8 TX J.CIV.LIB.CIV.RIGHTS 149 (2003)
    
     
19. Martha J.Dragich, Will The Federal Courts of Appeals Perish If They Publish? Or Does the Declining Use of Opinions to Explain and Justify Judicial Decisions Pose a Greater Threat? 44 AMER. UNIV.L.REV. 757 (1995)
    
     
20. K.K. DuVivier, Are Some Words Better Left Unpublished?: Precedent and the Role of Unpublished Decisions, 3 J. APP. PRAC. & PROC. 397(2001)
    
     
21. Charles R. Eloshway, Say It Ain't So: Non-Precedential Opinions Exceed the Limits of Article III Powers, 70 GEO. WASH. L. RREV. 632(2002)
    
     
22. Steven A. Fredley,  Anastasoff v. United States: Nonprecedential Precedent, Judicial Power, and Due Process: A Case for Maintaining the Status Quo, 10 GEO. MASON L. RREV. 127(1998)
    
     
23. Jona Goldschmidt,The Pro Se Litigant's Struggle for Access to Justice: Meeting the Challenge of Bench and Bar Resistance, 40 FAM. CT. REV. 36(2002)
    
     
24. David Greenwald and Frederick A. O. Schwarz, Jr., The Censorial Judiciary, 35 U.C. DAVIS L. REV. 1133 (2002)
    
     
25. Michael Hannon,  A Closer Look at Unpublished Opinions in the United States Courts of Appeals, 3 J. APP. PRAC.& PROC. 199 (2001)
    
     
26. Salem M. Katsh & Alex V. Chachkes, Constitutionality of "No- Citation" Rules, 3 J. APP. PRAC. & PROC. 287(2001)
    
     
27. Kerri L. Klover, "Order Opinions" - The Public's Perception of Injustice, 21 WM. MITCHELL L. REV. 1225 (1996)
    
     
28. Thomas R. Lee and Lance S. Lehnhof, The Anastasoff Case and the Judicial Power to "Unpublish" Opinions, 77 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 135(2001)
    
     
29. A. Leo Levin and  Michael E. Kunz, Thinking about Judgeships, 44 AM. U.L. REV. 1627 ( 1995)
    
     
30. Pamela Mathy,  Experimentation in Federal Appellate Case Management and the Prehearing Conference Program of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 61 CHI.-KENT. L. REV. 431 (1985)
    
     
31. Robert A. Mead, "Unpublished" Opinions as the Bulk of the Iceberg: Publication Patterns in the Eighth and Tenth Circuits of the United States Courts of Appeals, 93 LAW LIBR.J. 589 (2001)
    
     
32. William J. Miller, Chipping Away at the Dam: Anastasoff v. United States and the Future of Unpublished Opinions in the United States Courts of Appeals and Beyond, 50 DRAKE L. REV. 181 (2001)
    
     
33. Deborah Jones Merritt and James J. Brudney, Stalking Secret Law: What Predicts Publication in the United States Courts of Appeals, 54 VAND. L. REV. 71, 110 (2001)
    
     
34. Caleb Nelson, Stare Decisis and Demonstrably Erroneous Precedents, 87 VA. L. REV. 1, 36 (2001)
    
     
35. Philip Nichols, Jr., "Selective Publication of Opinions: One Judge’s View", 35 AMER. UNIV. L.REV 909 (1986)
    
     
36. Polly J. Price,Precedent and Judicial Power after the Founding, 42 B.C. L. REV. 8 (2000)
    
     
37. George C. Pratt, The Second Circuit Review -- 1983-1984 Term: Part I: Foreword: Summary Orders in the Second Circuit Under Rule 0.23., 51 BROOKLYN L. REV. 479 (1985)
    
     
38. Lee W. Rawles, The California Vexatious Litigant Statute: a Viable Judicial Tool to Deny the Clever Obstructionists Access? 72 S.CAL.L.REV.275 (1998)
    
     
39. William H. Rehnquist, Seen in a Glass Darkly: the Future of the Federal Courts, 1993 WIS. L. REV. 1 (1993)
    
     
40. William L. Reynolds and William M. Richman, Studying Deck Chairs on the Titanic, 81 CORNELL L. REV. 1290 (1996)
    
     
41. William M. Richman and William L. Reynolds, Elitism, Expediency, and the New Certiorari: Requiem for the Learned Hand Tradition, 81 CORNELL L. REV. 273 (1996)
    
     
42. William M. Richman, An Argument on the Record for More Federal Judgeships, 1 J. APP. PRAC. & PROCESS 37 (1999).
    
     
43. William L. Reynolds and William M. Richman, An Evaluation of Limited Publication in the United States Courts of Appeals: The Price of Reform, 48 U. CHI. L. REV. 573 (1981)
    
     
44. William M. Richman, The Appeals Process, 24 PEPP. L. REV. 911 (1997)
    
     
45. William L. Reynolds and William M. Richman, The Non-Precedential Precedent--Limited Publication and No-Citation Rules in the United States Courts of Appeals, 78 COLUM. L. REV. 1167 (1978)
    
     
46. William M. Richman and William L. Reynolds,Appellate Justice, Bureaucracy and Scholarship, 21 U. MICH. J.L. REF. 623 (1988)
    
     
47. William M. Richman and William L. Reynolds, The Supreme Court Rules for the Reporting of Opinions: A Critique, 46 OHIO ST. L.J. 313 (1985)
    
     
48. William L. Reynolds and William M. Richman, Limited Publication in the Fourth and Sixth Circuits, 1979 DUKE L.J. 807 (1979)
    
     
49. Jonathan D. Rosenbloom, Exploring Methods to Improve Management and Fairness in Pro Se Cases: a Study of the Pro Se Docket in the Southern District of New York, 30 Fordham Urb. L.J. 305 (2002)
    
     
50. Johanna S. Schiavoni, Who's Afraid of Precedent?: The Debate Over the Precedential Value of Unpublished Opinions, 49 UCLA L. REV. 1859 (2002)
    
     
51. Serfass, Melissa M. and Cranford, Jessie L. " Federal and State Court Rules Governing Publication and Citations of Opinions" 3 J. APP. PRAC. & PROC. 251(2001)
    
     
52. Nichole K. Shimamoto, Justice Is Blind, But Should She Be Mute? 6-OCT HAW. B.J. 6 (2002)
    
     
53. Howard Slavitt, Selling the Integrity of the System of Precedent: Selective Publication, Depublication, and Vacatur, 30 HARV. C.R.-C.L. L. REV. 109 (1995)
    
     
54. Donald R. Songer, Criteria for Publication of Opinions in the U.S. Courts of Appeals: Formal Rules Versus Empirical Reality, 73 JUDICATURE 307 (1990).
    
     
55. Donald R. Songer, Danna Smith, & Reginald S. Sheehan, Nonpublication in the Eleventh Circuit: An Empirical Analysis, 16 FLA.ST.U.L. Rev. 963 (1989).
    
     
56. Suzanne O. Snowden,  "That's My Holding and I'm Not Sticking To It!" Court Rules That Deprive Unpublished Opinions of Precedential Authority Distort the Common Law, 79 Wash. U. L. Q. 1253 (2001)
    
     
57. Arthur B. Spitzer and Charles H.Wilson, The Mischief of the Unpublished Opinion, 21:4 AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION 10 (1995)
    
     
58. Jeffrey W. Stempel, Contracting Access to the Courts: Myth or Reality? Boon or Bane? 40 ARIZ. L. REV. 965 (1998)
    
     
59. Carl Tobias, Anastasoff, Unpublished Opinions, and Federal Appellate Justice, 25 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL'Y 1171(2002)
    
     
60. Carl Tobias, Suggestions for Studying the Federal Appellate System, 49 FLA. L. REV. 189 (1997)
    
     
61. Robert J. Van Der Velde, Quiet Justice: Unreported Opinions of the United States Courts of Appeals--A Modest Proposal for Change, COURT REV. 20 (1998).
    
     
62. Patricia M. Wald, The Problem with the Courts: Black-Robed Bureaucracy, or Collegiality Under Challenge?, 42 MD. L. REV. 766 1983)
    
     
63. Patricia M. Wald, The Rhetoric of Results and the Results of Rhetoric:Judicial Writings, 62 U. CHI. L. REV. 1371 (1995).
    
     
64. Stephen L.Wasby, Unpublished Decisions in the Federal Courts of Appeals: Making The Decision to Publish, 3 J. APP. PRAC. & PROC. 325(2001
    
     
65. Norman R. Williams, The Failings of Originalism: The Federal Courts and the Power of Precedent, 37 U.C. DAVIS L.REV. 761 (2004)
    
     
66. Paul E. Wojcicki,  Is the Denial of Precedential Effect for Certain Appellate Court "Orders" under Illinois Supreme Court Rule 23(E) Unconstitutional?, 18-JAN CBA REC. 50 (2004)

 Jack B. Weinstein, The Poor's Right to the Equal Access to the Courts, 13 CON. L.REV. 651 (1981)

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CASE LAW (CASELAW)

"[Law consists of] prophecies of what the courts will do in fact." Holmes, The Path of the Law,10 HARV. L. REV. 457, 461 (1897).

1. Re RULES OF the UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR the TENTH CIRCUIT, ADOPTED NOVEMBER 18, 1986, 955 F.2d 36 (10th Cir, 1992)
   
    
2. Symbol Technologies, Inc. v. Lemelson Medical, Inc., 277 F.3d 1361 (2002)
   
    
3. U.S. v. American Bell Tel. Co., 167 U.S. 224 (1897)
   
    
4. Opinions Hidden, Citations Forbidden: Report And Recommendations Of the American College of Trial Lawyers On The Publication And Citation Of Nonbinding Federal Circuit Court Opinions, 208 F.R.D. 645 (2002)