Paul Summitt and James E. Macklin, Jr. transmit the Brookings Taskforce for Civil Reform report entitled "Justice for All"

Press release from Senator Biden's office praising the Brookings report and naming civil justice reform as a priority of the Senate Judiciary Committee

Using materials obtained through interviews with the court of appeals' judges and staff attorneys, as well as visiting judges, the authors discuss the procedure used by the court for selecting and deciding cases suitable for disposition without argument.

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.