Judicial Improvements and Access to Justice Act.

Passed by Congress to address the concerns of justices about the growing caseload of the Supreme Court, the Judicial Improvements and Access to Justice Act repealed the Court’s obligation to review decisions by lower courts striking down acts of Congress and state laws as unconstitutional, as well as decisions of state supreme courts that questioned the validity of federal laws or treaties. The act left cases involving reapportionment of congressional and state legislative districts as the only major category of cases that the Court was still mandated to hear on appeal.