Court Opinion

ID: 9458142
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 20:43:56.986314+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:35:39.131350
License: Public Domain

CLARK, Circuit Judge
(dissenting) :
I agree in part with Judge Coleman’s dissent from the panel opinion. By 28 U.S.C.A. § 2072, Congress has reposed rulemaking power for district courts of the United States in the Supreme Court alone. By Rules 48 and 83 that Court has vested the prerogative of reducing the 12-man size of juries in the parties alone. The lack of any other mention of authority to diminish this institution, prevents me from reasoning that it is somehow implicitly conveyed. Certainly, neither the number of courts which have assumed to exercise this function, nor the expediency which a new day seems to demand, can supply this deficit of power in the district courts. I respectfully dissent to the court’s failure to grant rehearing en banc.