This report to the Senate and the House Judiciary Committees includes information on the progress and procedures of CJRA implementation, the contents of district plans, and the results of implementation in pilot courts.
Howard F. Sachs, Leonidas Ralph Mecham, Civil Justice Advisory Group for the Western District of Missouri
May 19, 1992
A chain correspondence between Chief Judge Howard F. Sachs and Administrative Office Director L. Ralph Mecham. Includes both the Civil Justice Expense and Delay Reduction Plan for the Western District of Missouri and the Local Order adopting it on April 30th, 1992.
The Administrative Office's Duane R. Lee provides District of New Jersey Chief Judge John F. Gerry with an updated list of the CJRA Early Implementation Districts.
Jerome T. Wolf, Civil Justice Advisory Group for the Western District of Missouri
September 17, 1991
Jerome T. Wolf transmits the Early assessment Program of the Western District of Missouri to Elizabeth Plapinger of the Center for Public Resources, Inc.
A Chief Deputy Clerk of the Court faxes the order establishing the Civil Justice Advisory Group for the Western District of Missouri to Jim McCormack of the Administrative Office. The order lists the names and positions of advisory group members.
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 calendaring system used by the Western District of Missouri to clear its criminal and civil dockets at regularly scheduled intervals.
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.