The Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals was established by the

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in December 1971 with exclusive jurisdiction to hear appeals from the decisions of the

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in cases arising under the wage and price control program of the

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. Congress authorized the Chief Justice of the United States to appoint to the temporary court three or more district and appeals court

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s, each of whom was to serve on a part-time basis for an indefinite term. The court exercised the same powers as a

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, 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

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, 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 (, ). Although the Economic Stabilization Act expired in 1974, Congress extended the operation of the Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals in the

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. 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

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and the

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(91 Stat. 4). The Act of October 29, 1992 (, ) abolished the Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals and transferred both its jurisdiction and its pending cases to the

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effective March 29, 1993.

List of judges

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

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