Decision-Making at the Court of Appeals Level Involving Religious Liberty Cases
Description:
Many studies have been completed on factors affecting judicial decisions. Studies have focused on civil rights cases, economic cases, criminal cases, sexual discrimination and obscenity cases, but no work has specifically looked at religious liberty cases. This work examines the factors affecting United States Courts of Appeals judges' decision-making in religious liberty cases. I hypothesize that gender, race, religious background, prior judicial experience, circuit, region and litigant status…
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Date:
December 2002
Creator:
Reeves, Susan Kay
Partner:
UNT Libraries