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Civil Justice Reform Act Report: Development and Implementation of Plans by the United States District Courts

Judicial Conference of the United States, Committee on Court Administration and Case Management

December 1, 1994

Prepared by the Judicial Conference of the United States. Transmitted to Congress by the director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts (includes Appendix I, III, IV).

Voluntary Arbitration in Eight Federal District Courts: An Evaluation

Carol L. Krafka, David E. Rauma

January 1, 1994

A statutorily mandated report on the pilot court-annexed voluntary arbitration programs in eight federal district courts. The study examines program use in the context of the programs' referral systems.

Report of the National Commission on Judicial Discipline and Removal

Robert W. Kastenmeier

August 2, 1993

In 1990, Congress created the National Commission on Judicial Discipline and Removal, who's charge included investigation of problems related to the discipline and removal of life-tenured federal judges, and evaluation of alternatives to current arrangements for judicial discipline and removal, i

Why Judges Resign: Influences on Federal Judicial Service, 1789 to 1992

Emily Field Van Tassel, Beverly Hudson Wirtz, Peter A. Wonders

January 1, 1993

Provides a historical perspective on the reasons federal judges have left the bench. The study focuses on the fewer than 200 judges who, over the last 200 years, resigned from the bench for stated reasons other than age or health.

Structural and Other Alternatives for the Federal Courts of Appeals: Report to the United States Congress and the Judicial Conference of the United States

Judith A. McKenna

January 1, 1993

A study requested by the Federal Courts Study Committee Implementation Act of 1990 of the problems facing the federal courts of appeals and the numerous changes, structural and otherwise, that have been suggested as solutions.

Manual for Litigation Management and Cost and Delay Reduction [Superseded]

January 1, 1992

Prepared in response to a mandate of the Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990, the manual offers judges an arsenal of management techniques for every phase of civil litigation.

Unresolved Intercircuit Conflicts: The Nature and Scope of the Problem, Final Report: Phase I

Arthur D. Hellman

December 1, 1991

In section 302 of the Judicial Improvements Act of 1990, Congress took steps to address long-felt concerns about the capacity of the federal judicial system to provide, within a reasonable time, a uniform construction of federal law where uniformity is needed.

Report of the Federal Courts Study Committee

Federal Courts Study Committee, Judicial Conference of the United States

April 2, 1990

The Federal Courts Study Committee was created in 1988 under the Judicial Improvements and Access to Justice Act (Pub. L. No. 100-702, 102 Stat. 4642, 4644) to examine problems and issues facing the federal courts.

Court-Annexed Arbitration in Ten District Courts

Barbara Meierhoefer

January 1, 1990

A statutorily mandated evaluation of the pilot court-annexed mandatory arbitration programs in ten federal district courts.

A Comparative Evaluation of Stenographic and Audiotape Methods for United States District Court Reporting

J. Michael Greenwood, Julie Horney, M. Daniel Jacoubovitch, Frances B. Lowenstein, Russell R. Wheeler

January 1, 1983

A report on the results of research undertaken in response to section 401 of the Federal Courts Improvement Act of 1982, which directs the Judicial Conference of the United States to "experiment with the different methods of recording court proceedings." The study evaluated the performance of aud

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