A report prepared for the National Commission on Judicial Discipline and Removal under the title: Administration of the Federal Judicial Conduct and Disability Act of 1980: Final Report. The report is in three parts: (1) a description of the appellate courts' processes for handling conduct and disability matters; (2) a discussion of data on the effects of the Act that the authors collected from interviewing chief circuit judges, circuit executives, and clerks of court, reviewing complaints and orders, and examining statistical data from the AO; and (3) a summary of chief circuit judges' assessments of the value of the Act and suggestions for change. The report presents the views of chief judges on the impact—or lack of impact—of the 1980 Act on judicial independence.

Reprinted from 142 University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 25-207 (1994).