Frank M. Coffin, in The Brookings Review (Winter 1992), 1775 Mass. Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.

Over the past three decades, the burden on the federal court system has grown enor- mously. The caseload has tripled in federal district courts and increased tenfold in the courts of appeals. And there is no end in sight, notes Senior U.S. Circuit Judge Cof- fin, given the "unceasing flow of federal statutes and entitlements, resulting in in- exorably increasing federal litigation." H...