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Template for Chief Circuit Judges’ Deskbooks [Superseded] In response to requests from chief judges and as a follow-up to a 2000 conference for appellate judges, the Center developed this common template that each circuit could use to develop its own deskbook for chief judges. It provides a comprehensive list of activities that chief judges and others undertake pursuant to statute, to Judicial Conference policies, or simply because of the imperatives of administering a circuit. |
January 1, 2001 |
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Ten Steps to Better Case Management: A Guide for Multidistrict Litigation Transferee Court Clerks [Superseded] This guide is intended to help transferee clerks of court successfully manage multidistrict litigation (MDL). |
January 1, 2008 |
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Ten Steps to Better Case Management: A Guide for Multidistrict Litigation Transferee Court Clerks, Second Edition This guide is intended to help transferee clerks of court successfully manage multidistrict litigation (MDL). It contains recommendations from the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation and suggestions for implementing CM/ECF to improve MDL case management.
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January 1, 2014 |
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Ten Steps to Better Case Management: A Guide for Multidistrict Litigation Transferee Judges [Superseded] This guide is intended to help judges to whom an MDL case has been transferred. Congress created the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation under 28 U.S.C. § 1407 and gave it the responsibility to transfer "civil actions involving one or more common questions of fact" from multiple districts to any single district for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings. |
January 1, 2009 |
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Ten Steps to Better Case Management: A Guide for Multidistrict Litigation Transferee Judges, Second Edition This guide is intended to help transferee judges with their MDL cases. Section 1407 empowers a transferee judge to exercise all the powers of the transferor court, with the exception of actually conducting the trial of the case (except in special circumstances). The purpose of this guide is to introduce briefly some of the “best practices” that transferee judges have developed over the years, focusing on core responsibilities.
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January 1, 2014 |
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The "Rule of Reason" in Antitrust Analysis: General Issues A 1981 essay that explained the difference between "per se unlawful " and "rule of reason " restraints in antitrust litigation. |
January 1, 1981 |
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The 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction: A Guide for Judges [Superseded] The 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction is a treaty that governs proceedings for the prompt return of children who have been wrongfully taken or kept away from their "habitual residence." This guide provides an overview of the Hague Convention, focusing on the legal and procedural issues judges are likely to encounter during litigation under this treaty. |
January 1, 2012 |
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The 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction: A Guide for Judges, Second Edition [SUPERSEDED] This edition has been superseded by the third edition: The 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction: A Guide for Judges, Third Edition. |
December 15, 2015 |
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The 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction: A Guide for Judges, Third Edition This guide is designed to assist federal and state judges in dealing with proceedings for the return of children under the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. Cases arising under the 1980 Convention present challenges to trial and appellate courts owing to unique legal concepts and the time-sensitive nature of the proceedings. |
August 31, 2023 |
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The Analysis and Decision of Summary Judgment Motions: A Monograph on Rule 56 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure The authors suggest ways of thinking about summary judgment that can help judges and lawyers make more effective use of the rule as a vehicle to reach the objectives of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 1: the just, speedy, and inexpensive resolution of litigation. (Also see the authors' Summary Judgment After Eastman Kodak, 45 Hastings Law Journal 1 (1993), which is reprinted at 154 F.R.D. 311 (1994)). |
January 1, 1991 |