Abstract
Despite extensive literature relating local socioeconomic and political environments to economic outputs of state legislatures and administrative agencies, there has been no comparable study of the impact of local environmental factors on economic policy outcomes of either state or federal trial courts. This article begins to fill this research lacuna by examining the combined and relative effects of state economic development policies and judicial background on federal district courts' economic policymaking. Probusiness state development policies are found to be positively related to support for business in federal district court decisions. Conclusions regarding the impact of environmental factors on district court policy outcomes are offered along with a comparison of this research with the larger and more developed body of state and local policy research.
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