This study was conducted in order to develop a projection of the Federal Judicial Center Courtran II data communications requirements and to determine the most cost effective way to meet those requirements. The study looked forward from 1978 to 1983.

This report is the second of four prepared during a study of the communications requirements of the Courtran II processing system.

A description of the calendaring and assignment computer software system that the Center designed at the request of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The report includes suggestions for possible applications of that software.

An evaluation of the utility to federal courts of a computerized system for checking the accuracy of case citations and determining case histories. The report explains the evaluated system and the methodology of the project and covers usage data and the accuracy of cite-checking systems.