The Federal Judicial System: Report of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 87th Cong., 1st Sess., Made by Its Subcommittee on Improvements in Judicial Machinery, Tegether with Supplemental Views Pursuant to S. Res. 231, 86th Cong., 2d Sess., as Extended

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961 - 23 pages
 

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Page 7 - Each judicial council shall make all necessary orders for the effective and expeditious administration of the business of the courts within its circuit...
Page 21 - ... for the purpose of considering the business of the courts and advising means of improving the administration of justice within such circuit.
Page 21 - US 125] administration of justice by them, from any nature of action by an individual judge or a person attached to the courts." Id., at 7. The Conference specifically approved this construction in spelling out its conclusions. Id., at 8-9. It is not necessary to define all of the limits on the powers of the Councils under § 332 in order to determine that the February 4 Order was a proper exercise of those powers. The December...
Page 15 - ... court below the Supreme Court fails to avail himself of the privilege of retiring now granted by law, that the President be required, with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint another judge, who would preside over the affairs of the court and have precedence over the older one. This will insure at all times the presence of a judge sufficiently active to discharge promptly and adequately the duties of the court.
Page 18 - ... the part of the general public throughout our nation and, indeed, the free world, in the improvement of the processes for administering justice. That growing interest is in large measure a product of the tumultuous times in which we live. For these are not only times which have produced a monstrous threat to all freedom, but, by the very reason of that threat, are times which have induced in free peoples everywhere an ever intensifying critical self-examination of the institutions upon which...
Page 7 - ... lower courts to the Supreme Court and the Chief Justice of the United States. The idea of devolving the authority to councils at the circuit level was suggested by Chief Justice Hughes, who believed that the supervision could be made most effective by "concentration of responsibility in the various circuits . . . with power and authority to make the supervision all that is necessary to induce competence in the work of all of the judges of the various districts within the circuit.
Page 8 - Compare the observation of the late Arthur T. Vanderbilt, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, in a foreword to Virtue, Basic Structure for Children's Services in Michigan (1953), p.
Page 5 - Sees. 1332 and 1441, a corporation is the citizen of the state by which it has been Incorporated and of the state In which it has its principal place of business.
Page 8 - Last year's bill has a provision in it which I personally thought was exceedingly dangerous, because I thought it might be construed to centralize here in Washington an administrator with power to assign judges.
Page 15 - I suggest an act providing when any judge of a Federal court below the Supreme Court fails to avail himself of the privilege of retiring now granted by law that the President be required, with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint another judge, who shall preside over the affairs of the court and have precedence over the older one.

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