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Guidelines for Pre-Recording Testimony on Videotape Prior to Trial, Second Edition

January 1, 1976

A description of techniques, equipment, and procedures for videotaping depositions. The report includes forms, state and federal rules, cases, and a listing of articles on this subject.

District Court Studies Project: Interim Report

Steven Flanders

January 1, 1976

Consequences of Alternative Sentences

Sentencing Institute for the Sixth and Seventh Circuits

November 11, 1975

This document was used during a Sentencing Institute for the Sixth and Ninth Circuits, held November 11-14, 1975. Using a hypothetical case, it presents:

District Court Caseload Forecasting: An Executive Summary

October 1, 1975

A summary of the first phase of the Center's project to develop a caseload forecasting model. The study concludes that indicator-based forecasts can and should be used to help allocate district court resources.

Appellate Review of Trial Court Discretion

Maurice Rosenberg

May 13, 1975

A discussion of types of cases in which judicial discretion─based on facts and guided by law─is applied in trial courts.

Attitudes of United States Judges Toward Limitation of Oral Argument and Opinion-Writing in the United States Courts of Appeals

Jerry Goldman

January 1, 1975

The results of a survey undertaken for the Commission on Revision of the Federal Court Appellate System, in which the attitudes of federal judges regarding appellate oral argument and opinion-writing practices were explored.

Structure and Internal Procedures: Recommendations for Change

Commission on Revision of the Federal Court Appellate System

January 1, 1975

The FJC is the repository for publications of the Commission on Revision of the Federal Court Appellate System and has available a limited number of copies of the commission's report: Structure and Internal Procedures: Recommendations for Change (1975).

Forecasts of Case Filing Volumes in the Federal District Courts

R. L. Hooper

December 1, 1974

The goal of this study was forecasts of case filing volumes in federal district courts. The effort was interdisciplinary involving statisticians, computer scientists, political scientists, lawyers, and economists.

Geographical Division of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals: An Historical Analysis

Denise Bonn

June 1, 1974

In 1975, the Commission on Revision of the Federal Court Appellate System, chaired by Senator Roman L. Hruska, recommended to the Congress, the President and Chief Justice of the United States that the geographical boundaries of the Fifth and Ninth Circuits be altered to create four circuits.

Report on Legal Research Practices in Three Federal Courts and Possible Computer Applications To Those Practices

William L. Whittaker

February 15, 1974

Federal Judicial Center

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