 The statute was intended to promote greater uniformity in certain areas of federal jurisdiction and relieve the pressure on the dockets of the Supreme Court and the courts of appeals for the regional circuits.In 1971, a committee appointed by Chief Justice Warren Burger proposed the creation a National Court of Appeals that would decide cases and screen petitions for appeal to the United States Supreme Court.The 1975 report of the Commission on Revision of the Federal Court Appellate System proposed a like-named court that would determine national law and resolve inter-circuit conflicts by deciding certain categories of cases referred to it by the Supreme Court and the courts of appeals.