L. Ralph Mecham transmits Judge John F. Gerry's position on S. 2027 to Chief Justice William Rehnquist, along with a New Jersey Law Journal Article by Henry Gottlieb entitled "U.S. Judges Blast Speed-Up Bill"

A statutorily mandated evaluation of the pilot court-annexed mandatory arbitration programs in ten federal district courts.

In 1990 the Federal Judicial Center published Court-Annexed Arbitration in Ten District Courts, a statutorily mandated evaluation of the pilot court-annexed mandatory arbitration programs in ten federal district courts.

An examination of the local rules federal district courts have developed in response to the 1983 amendment to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 16, which calls for increased use of scheduling orders in managing caseloads. An appendix contains sample local rules from fifteen districts.