Riding circuit

Riding circuit is the practice of judges and lawyers, sometimes referred to as circuit riders, travelling to a regular series of locations in order to hold court there, perhaps once a week or once a month. Traveling judges are now rare, but the term remains in the name "circuit court", commonly applied to levels of court that oversee many lower district courts. It has been proposed that U.S. Supreme Court justices should ride circuit as they once did.[1]

See also

  • Assizes — a type of judicial courts, to which "riding circuit" often applied
  • Circuit court — a type of judicial courts, to which "riding circuit" often applied
  • Itinerant court — older, similar concept for royalty and governments

References

  1. ↑ Stras, David R. (2006–2007), Why Supreme Court Justices Should Ride Circuit Again (PDF), 91, Minn. L. Rev., p. 1710
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