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Digital Audio Recording Technology: A Report on a Pilot Project in Twelve Federal Courts-Prepared for the Court Administration and Case Management Committee of the Judicial Conference

David E. Rauma, Donna J. Stienstra, George W. Cort, Patricia A. Lombard

May 14, 1999

Should digital audio recording technology be an approved method for taking the offical record of federal courts proceedings?

Court-Ordered Mental Examinations of Capital Defendants: Procedures in Ten States

Laural L. Hooper, Jennifer Evans, Robert Nida

March 26, 1999

Report to the Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules regarding the proposal to amend Rule 12.2. Procedures governing court-ordered mental examinations are presented as they have been implemented in a sample of districts with extensive death penalty experience.

Standards Governing Attorney Conduct in the Bankruptcy Courts: Report to the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules

Marie Leary, Robert J. Niemic, Melissa Deckman Fallon

March 1, 1999

Bankruptcy courts are different from the district courts in the attorney conduct area in that attorneys who practice in bankruptcy courts are subject to a complex statutory system, which includes bankruptcy-specific conflict of interest criteria and other standards directly governing attorney con

Individual Characteristics of Mass Torts Case Congregations: A report to the Mass Torts Working Group (Appendix D)

Carol Witcher, Melissa Deckman Fallon, Philip Egelston, Rebecca Spiro, Suzanne Hruby, Thomas E. Willging

January 1, 1999

This report, done for the Mass Torts Working Group, appointed in 1998 by the Chief Justice, organizes and presents information from published sources on about fifty sets of mass tort litigations involving personal injury and property damage claims.

Mass Torts Problems and Proposals: A Report to the Mass Torts Working Group (Appendix C)

Thomas E. Willging

January 1, 1999

The Mass Torts Working Group, appointed in 1998 by the Chief Justice, asked the Center to conduct a literature review examining problems related to mass torts and to discuss proposals for resolving those problems. This report is the result of that research.

Assessment of Caseload Burden in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit – Report to the Subcommittee on Judicial Statistics of the Committee on Judicial Resources of the Judicial Conference of the United States

Stefanie A. Lindquist, Carol L. Krafka, John E. Shapard

January 1, 1999

The mix of cases in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit differs markedly from the case mix of other U.S. courts of appeals. The implications of this difference for judicial workload and judgeship needs, however, have been unclear.

Informing Judicial Recusal Decisions: Party Disclosure of Financial Interests Information - Report to the Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Judicial Conference of the United States

Carol L. Krafka, Marie Leary, Joe S. Cecil, Naomi Medvin

January 1, 1999

Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 26.1 provides for disclosure of financial information from corporate parties in the courts of appeals. The purpose of the rule is to assist appellate judges in identifying if they have financial conflicts of interest for recusal purposes.

Advisory Committee Notes to the Federal Rules of Evidence That May Require Clarification

Daniel J. Capra

July 21, 1998

At the request of the Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules, Professor Daniel Capra, committee reporter, listed instances where Congress either rejected or substantially changed rules before passage, thus rendering advisory committee notes possibly confusing.

Implementation of Disclosure in United States District Courts, With Specific Attention to Courts' Responses to Selected Amendments to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26

Donna J. Stienstra

March 30, 1998

Updates the March 28, 1997 report on the federal district courts' responses to the 1993 amendments to FRCP 26.

Data from Middle Ground Districts (Memorandum)

Thomas E. Willging

February 23, 1998

Memorandum to the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Civil Rules identifying two districts, the Northern District of Alabama and the Central District of California, as examples of "the 'middle ground' between current requirements and abolition of disclosure requirements."

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Research Reports

Digital Audio Recording Technology: A Report on a Pilot Project in Twelve Federal Courts-Prepared for the Court Administration and Case Management Committee of the Judicial Conference

Court-Ordered Mental Examinations of Capital Defendants: Procedures in Ten States

Standards Governing Attorney Conduct in the Bankruptcy Courts: Report to the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules

Individual Characteristics of Mass Torts Case Congregations: A report to the Mass Torts Working Group (Appendix D)

Mass Torts Problems and Proposals: A Report to the Mass Torts Working Group (Appendix C)

Assessment of Caseload Burden in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit – Report to the Subcommittee on Judicial Statistics of the Committee on Judicial Resources of the Judicial Conference of the United States

Informing Judicial Recusal Decisions: Party Disclosure of Financial Interests Information - Report to the Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Judicial Conference of the United States

Advisory Committee Notes to the Federal Rules of Evidence That May Require Clarification

Implementation of Disclosure in United States District Courts, With Specific Attention to Courts' Responses to Selected Amendments to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26

Data from Middle Ground Districts (Memorandum)

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