ABSTRACT
The authors of the Circuit Courts of Appeals Act certainly satisfied the exigent requirements of the federal judicial business through the establishment of intermediate appellate courts. The division of the country into nine circuits with nine circuit courts of appeals has remained, despite insistent pressure for further sub-division. The specific proposal to abolish the circuit courts thus becomes entangled in the larger project of the revision of the laws of the United States. The circuit courts gain another and final lease of life, because their death must await the adoption of a comprehensive judicial code. The Judicial Code made no change in the ambit of jurisdiction except to increase by the slight lift of a thousand dollars the amount necessary to bring suit in the federal courts. Senator Hoar proposed to rectify it by putting District of Columbia litigation on a parity with that in the federal courts.
