In this secondary issue of volume 27.

In this secondary issue of volume 27, we bring to the reader what we consider a delectable m?©lange of articles and notes, spiced by the agency of views of leaders in court administration. The first four articles all relate to state courts, further each speaks to different aspects of those courts. united is judicial selection, as we begin with a cogitation by Rebecca Mae Salokar, D Jason Berggren, and Kathryn A. DePalo of the purports on appointments to the state's intermediate appellate and trial courts in metropolitan areas of changes in Florida's merit selection proces which gave the governor greater sway of the membership of judicial nominating commissions. We then induce from the composition of judicial nominating commissions to judicial elections, as Chris Bonneau examines the couple candidate-specific factors and institutional arrangements that affect "open" elections to state high courts, that is, those with no incumbent seeking reelection.

From these aspects of judicial selection, we cast to case selection, as Keith Rollin Eakins examines factors affecting decisions of the pickeded justices of the Supreme Court of Ohio to accept cases for review, with particular attention to issues that might be salient and to attorney experience. And then, in the last of these four articles in succession state courts, we turn to aspects of the proces after cases have been accepted for review, as Victor Eugene Flango, Donald Bros and Sarah Corbally examine state courts' views onward amicus curiae participation in cases.

Federal courts are also an important part of the "mix" of materials in this issue. Continuing the important examination of the composition of the docket of the U principal Court, to which Wendy Watson contributed a close attention of "i.f.p." cases in our last issue, Kevin Scott engages in analysis of the factors, the two internal and external, which influence that docket. And Karen Swenson then awaits at the elevation of district justices to the courts of appeals, focusing upon President Reagan's promotion of those he had named to the district courts.

This issue contains a special "From the Benches and Trenches" hall constructed by Terry Nafisi, Ninth Circuit delegate circuit executive and a member of this journal's editorial board. She used the single in kind hundredth anniversary of Roscoe Pound's famous ABA language to ask three leading figures in court administration-Alex Aikman, Geoff Gallas, and Russell Wheeler (the latter sum of two units served as this journal's editor-in-chief)-a series of questions about court reform and about the status of the court administration profession, and their answers are neared here.

This issue also contains a Legal Note, by way of Robert Howard, on the vexed questions faced by appellate courts in correcting errors they recognize they have made, and a small number of "Of Note" items, including mention of near material by authors of articles appearing in this issue.

Stephen L Wasby, Editor-in-Chief, Eastham, Massachusetts Luke Bierman, Associate Editor, Raleigh, North Carolina

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