Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals

The Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals was established by the United States Congress in December 1971 with exclusive jurisdiction to hear appeals from the decisions of the U.S. district courts in cases arising under the wage and price control program of the Economic Stabilization Act of 1970.

Congress authorized the Chief Justice of the United States to appoint to the temporary court three or more district and appeals court judges, each of whom was to serve on a part-time basis for an indefinite term. The court exercised the same powers as a U.S. court of appeals, and it was authorized to prescribe its own rules of practice, which it did when its three district and six circuit court judges convened for the first time in February 1972. The Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals was modeled on the Emergency Court of Appeals, which was established in 1942 to hear appeals in cases involving various wartime price control measures and which heard its last case in 1961.

It was created by the Act of December 22, 1971 (Pub. L. Template:Trim/Template:Trim Template:Trim–Template:Trim, 85 Stat. 743). Although the Economic Stabilization Act expired in 1974, Congress extended the operation of the Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals in the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973. The court exercised the judicial review provisions of the energy price stabilization program established by the act. The temporary court’s jurisdiction was further expanded in the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975 and the Emergency Natural Gas Act of 1977 (91 Stat. 4). The Act of October 29, 1992 (Pub. L. Template:Trim/Template:Trim Template:Trim–Template:Trim, 106 Stat. 4506) abolished the Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals and transferred both its jurisdiction and its pending cases to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit effective March 29, 1993.

List of judges

The following judges were members of the Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals:

Judge	Active service	Chief Judge
	1972–1978
	1972–1979
	1972–1993
	1972–1987
	1972–1976
	1972–1976
	1972–1982
	1972–1981	1972–1981
	1972–1977
	1976–1993
	1976–1988
	1976–1987
	1977–1992
	1977–1987
	1977–1981
	1977–1993
	1977–1987
	1977–1979
	1977–1987
	1978–1986
	1979–1986
	1979–1982
	1979–1993
	1979–1987
	1979–1993
	1980–1993
	1980–1987
	1980–1987
	1980–1993
	1981–1983
	1981–1993
	1981–1982
	1981–1987	1982–1987
	1982–1986
	1982–1993
	1982–1993	1987–1993
	1982–1987
	1982–1985
	1982–1993
	1982–1993

External links

• History from the Federal Judicial Center