The Administrative Office's Duane R. Lee provides District of New Jersey Chief Judge John F. Gerry with an updated list of the CJRA Early Implementation Districts.

Chief Judge Robert Earl Maxwell transmits two drafts of the Northern District of West Virginia Civil Justice Expense and Delay Reduction Plan to Federal Judicial Center director William W. Schwarzer.

An examination of the local rules federal district courts have developed in response to the 1983 amendment to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 16, which calls for increased use of scheduling orders in managing caseloads. An appendix contains sample local rules from fifteen districts.