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Long-Range Planning for Circuit Councils: Speeches Presented at the Meeting of the Judicial Council of the Ninth Circuit, May 1992

J. Clifford Wallace, Otto Richard Skopil Jr., William W Schwarzer, Charles W. Nihan, Russell R. Wheeler
May 1, 1992

Five articles on long-range planning adapted from papers presented at the Ninth Circuit's Judicial Council meeting. The first article, "The Future of the Judicial Council of the Ninth Circuit--Until 1939," is an overview of the historical background to the formation of the council. The remaining four outline the importance of long-range planning for the Ninth Circuit and the rest of the U.S. court system.