Additional Circuit and District Judges: Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-second Congress, First Session, on S. 1203, a Bill to Provide for the Appointment of Additional Circuit and District Judges, and for Other PurposesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1951 - 288 pages |
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86 districts ADDITIONAL CIRCUIT additional judge additional judgeship Admiralty Bar Association bill CHAIRMAN CHANDLER CIRCUIT AND DISTRICT CIVIL CASES Fiscal CIVIL CASES UNITED commenced per judgeship committee criminal Delaware district courts district of Florida district of Tennessee districts having purely Diversity of citizenship docket eastern district Federal court Federal question Fifth Circuit filing to disposition Fort Myers Habeas corpus hold court increase issue to trial Judge Davies Judicial Conference June 30 Fiscal Land condemnation Lee County litigation menced menced menced nated Pending menced per judge menced Termi middle district months nated Pending June National average Norfolk northern number of civil Palm Beach County PAT MCCARRAN Pending June 30 private civil purely Federal jurisdiction reaching trial rent control roving judge Senator MCKELLAR Senator SMITH Shafroth southern district TOTAL CIVIL UNITED STATES CIVIL United States Courts United States defendant United States district United States plaintiff West Palm Beach West Virginia western
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Page 4 - President finds that such judge is unable to discharge efficiently all the duties of his office by reason of permanent mental or physical disability and that the appointment of an additional judge is necessary for the efficient dispatch of business, the President may make such appointment by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
Page 4 - ... who shall during their terms of office reside in the divisions of the district to which they may be respectively assigned by the President. The court shall consist of four divisions, which shall also be recording divisions.
Page 238 - Court of Appeals for the Federal circuit, to establish a US Claims Court, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment and recommend that the bill as amended do pass; The amendment is as follows : Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof the following: That this Act may be cited as the "Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Act of 1960".
Page 4 - Any citizen of the United States who has attained the age of twenty-one years and who has resided for a period of one year within the judicial district, is competent to serve as a grand or petit juror unless — "(1) He has been convicted in a State...
Page 3 - Congress assembled, That the President shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, one additional circuit judge for the fifth circuit and two additional circuit judges for the ninth circuit.
Page 2 - An Act to provide for the appointment of an additional district judge for the middle district of...
Page 4 - APPROVED DECEMBER 24, 1942 That the President is authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, one additional United States district judge, who shall be an additional district judge for the eastern and western districts of Missouri.
Page 4 - There is hereby established a district court for the District of Alaska, with the jurisdiction of district courts of the United States and with general jurisdiction in civil; criminal, equity, and admiralty causes...
Page 272 - Courts are devoting to civil cases. (This is the conclusion of the Division of Procedural Studies and Statistics of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts...
Page 139 - Whereas there is now pending in the Congress of the United States...