Courts of Appeals records simplify and streamline the inner workings of the United States legal system, including the Appellate Court. Recognizing the benefits of a U.S. Court of Appeals brief, these cases are crucial to those attending law school and analyzing case records. Courts of Appeals records like these, and court case briefs in general, provide clarity and insight into the judicial system and allow those who study politics to further comprehend modern American social issues. From each filing, opinion, and argument, court case briefs also allow scholars to skip over assumptions and derive their opinion directly from fact. 

This offering complements the 11^th and 12^th installments of The Making of Modern Law, whose documents were selected via a thorough review of cases cited most frequently in law journal articles. In The Making of Modern Law: Landmark Records and Briefs of the U.S. Courts of Appeals, Part III: Key Issues from 1922–1983, cases are handpicked based on their critical importance to modern social, cultural, and economic issues that regularly occupy newspaper headlines in today’s heated political climate. Each U.S. Court of Appeals brief aids researchers in navigating issues in American politics. Any law library can be enhanced with this expansive collection of court case briefs. 

Unique Content: The collection adds to the corpus of content previously gathered in the previous two installments on the U.S. Courts of Appeals, while filling critical gaps in those collections. The key difference: case selection focuses on how well they represent critical issues in social, cultural, and political history of the United States.

Supports Researchers: Beyond the realm of legal scholarship, appellate briefs easily serve researchers across the humanities and social sciences—from sociology, economics, and political science to literature, philosophy, and religion.

Scholarly Appeal: Legal briefs offer a gold mine of information not only on legal issues but also on social, cultural, and economic matters—catering to scholars in economics, history of public health, immigration studies, law, literature, political science, psychology, religion, and sociology as well as race, ethnic, Indigenous, and women’s studies.

Topical Coverage: This 13^th installment offers the “forgotten history” of appellate cases on major issues, which often enforced policies that key rulings of the Supreme Court would eventually overturn—keeping the focus almost exclusively on cases that address high-interest topics.