En Banc

• Author: David Gordon
• Pages: 895

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(French: "As a bench.") The term often applies to appellate courts, and in particular to the UNITED STATES COURTS OF APPEALS. Commonly only a three-member panel of a federal court of appeals hears a case. When the full membership is sitting?whether by its own choice or at a litigant's request?the case is heard before them en banc. In the federal courts of appeals, the decision of a panel is reconsidered en banc if a majority of the full court's members agree on such a...