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Perceptions of the Independent Trial Judge Role in the Seventh Circuit
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 July 2024
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The federal trial judge works in a court system which is rapidly modernizing by developing central administrative structures and procedures to monitor and expedite his tasks. The new structures are creating new expectations for the federal judicial role. For the incumbent judge the demand to change his role definition and his pattern of action breeds tension and resistance. The Chandler case (1970), involving the sanctioning of a trial judge by his circuit judicial council, which Justice Douglas characterized as “the most controversial contest involving a federal judge in modern United States history,” epitomizes the stress upon a trial judge, nurtured in a period of mild bureaucracy, finding himself at the end of his career in an organization with new norms and stronger instruments of enforcement.
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- Copyright © 1972 The Law and Society Association
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AUTHOR'S NOTE: This article is a revision of one section of a paper entitled “Federal District Judges in the Seventh Circuit: Trial Judge Roles in the Courtroom and the Court System,” delivered at the Sixty-sixth Annual Meeting of The American Political Science Association, Los Angeles, California, September 8, 1970. The research for this study was done under faculty grants from The Social Science Research Council and The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate School.