Federal Courts and Judges: Hearings Before Subcommittee No. 5 on H.R. 6159 [and Other] Bills to Provide for the Appointment of Additional Circuit and District Judges, and for Other PurposesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1960 - 760 pages Committee Serial No. 19. Considers H.R. 6159, 32 related bills, and related H.J. Res. 160 and H.J. Res. 165, to appoint additional judges throughout the nation. |
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... trial judges , then the supreme court which is composed of three judges , this is the appellate circuit . Mr. MEADER . Do you have any statistics on the caseload in the district courts in Nevada ? Senator BIBLE . I don't have them ...
... trial judges , then the supreme court which is composed of three judges , this is the appellate circuit . Mr. MEADER . Do you have any statistics on the caseload in the district courts in Nevada ? Senator BIBLE . I don't have them ...
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... trial was held , which were terminated during the year , excluding land condemnation , habeas corpus and forfeiture proceedings . No median interval is shown for the years 1945 through 1952 where less than 25 cases were terminated after ...
... trial was held , which were terminated during the year , excluding land condemnation , habeas corpus and forfeiture proceedings . No median interval is shown for the years 1945 through 1952 where less than 25 cases were terminated after ...
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... trial through pretrial conferences and stipulations ( one of which was 600 pages long ) the trial record ran to 12,000 pages and required the Judge to spend a very substantial part of 6 months in chambers before handing down an 88 ...
... trial through pretrial conferences and stipulations ( one of which was 600 pages long ) the trial record ran to 12,000 pages and required the Judge to spend a very substantial part of 6 months in chambers before handing down an 88 ...
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... trial of these cases would consume months of the time of the judges involved and result in a sharp increase in the number of cases forming the back- log . This tendency to handle the shorter cases first , however , increases the hard ...
... trial of these cases would consume months of the time of the judges involved and result in a sharp increase in the number of cases forming the back- log . This tendency to handle the shorter cases first , however , increases the hard ...
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... trial of civil cases in which a trial was held Fiscal year : 1951- 1952 1953_ 1954 . 1955_ Median interval ( months ) Fiscal year - Continued 4.7 1956__ . 5.5 1957- 6.4 1958 7.6 1959 12.0 Median interval ( months ) 15.3 17.2 16.8 19.9 ...
... trial of civil cases in which a trial was held Fiscal year : 1951- 1952 1953_ 1954 . 1955_ Median interval ( months ) Fiscal year - Continued 4.7 1956__ . 5.5 1957- 6.4 1958 7.6 1959 12.0 Median interval ( months ) 15.3 17.2 16.8 19.9 ...
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additional district judge additional judge additional judgeship Administrative Office Alameda County antitrust attorneys backlog BEGINNING WITH 1941 bill calendar Calhoun County Chairman Chief Judge circuit civil caseload civil cases commenced civil cases filed civil cases pending Civil Criminal COMMENCED AND TERMINATED COMMENCED PER JUDGESHIP Commenced Terminated June Congress Court of Appeals D.C. DEAR district of Florida district of Michigan district of Tennessee diversity of citizenship docket February February 15 Federal court Federal question filing to disposition fiscal year 1959 Grand Rapids Habeas Corpus holding court includes 86 districts increase interval in months Jones Act Judicial Conference June 30 land condemnation litigation Median Interval menced Termi middle district national average northern percent personal injury population pretrial private civil recommended San Diego Senate SHAFROTH southern district TABLE terminated after trial Terminated June 30 Total Civil U.S. Courts U.S. defendant U.S. District Court United United States Code visiting judges western district York
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Page 153 - ... authorization, which includes the Obion River and its tributaries and cleaning-out work and improvements of that type, as I recall, was $7,700,000, which makes a total there of authorized construction under those two acts of possibly $13.700,000.