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Article: EDITORIAL: Ninth Circuit Court needs to be split up: Congress should follow the advice of judges in the West and split the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals into two courts.(Editorial)
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- The Times-News (Twin Falls, ID)
- Article date:
- July 12, 2006
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Jul. 12--Western lawmakers have been telling Congress for years --without effect --that the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is too large to be effective. Maybe congressmen will take the word of the judges who serve in the nation's largest federal court. On June 29, 24 federal district and circuit judges who serve in the nine-state Ninth Circuit signed a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, asking him to support legislation to split the Ninth Circuit in two. "It has been a long and winding road to restore manageability and efficiency to our federal courts in the West," the judges wrote. "The Ninth Circuit is once again the slowest ...
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