The author of the article about the Ninth Circuit dismisses the idea of making one large national Circuit Court of Appeals because:
a. Smaller circuits encourage substantive knowledge of local law and collegiality among judges.
b. Having one large Circuit Court may result in travel difficulties for litigants since the courts would be combined and they would only be in certain locations.
c. The concept of "economies of scale" are supported if the courts were combined
. d. There is no evidence that such an action would improve the time it takes to complete a case or decrease the frequency of reversals by the US Supreme Court
