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Letter: Observations on the Present Senate Bill Entitled "Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990"

John Winslow Bissell
February 28, 1990

Judge John W. Bissell of the District of New Jersey writes to Jeffrey J. Peck in order to share his opinions about the Civil Justice Reform Act. Attached is a New Jersey Law Journal article by Henry Gottlieb entitled "U.S. Judges Blast Speed-Up Bill"