District of Columbia Court of General Sessions: Hearing, Eighty-ninth Congress, Second Session, on S. 2255 ... [and] S. 2263 ... March 14, 1966U.S. Government Printing Office, 1966 - 62 pages Considers S. 2255, to add 3 judges to the D.C. Court of General Sessions; and S. 2263, to add 5 judges to the D.C. Court of General Sessions and establish a new traffic branch therein. |
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Page 37 - That a nomination to fill such vacancy under (a) , (b) , or (c) of this section, shall be submitted to the Senate not later than forty days after the commencement of the next succeeding session of the Senate.
Page 37 - Senate within thirty days prior to the termination of the session and a person other than the one whose nomination was rejected thereafter receives a recess commission: Provided, That a nomination to fill such vacancy under (a), (b), or (c...
Page 37 - No money shall be paid from the Treasury, as salary, to any person appointed during the recess of the Senate, to fill a vacancy in any existing office, if the vacancy existed while the Senate was in session, and was by law required to be filled by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, until such appointee has been confirmed by the Senate.
Page 56 - 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 30 - Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee, I am delighted to have the opportunity to...
Page 37 - ... nor shall any money be paid out of the Treasury, as salary, to any person appointed during the recess of the Senate, to fill a vacancy in any existing office, which vacancy existed while the Senate was in session and is by law required to be filled by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, until such appointee shall have been confirmed by the Senate.
Page 5 - ... anticipated that the delay between joinder of issue, pretrial conference, and trial will continue to increase. The overall caseload in the domestic relations branch continued to increase. Contested cases were being scheduled for trial within 1 month after pretrial and uncontested cases within 1 month after joinder of issue. Collections and disbursements of support, maintenance, and alimony payments in both local and reciprocal enforcement of support cases totaled $955,689.18, increase of $1S3.528.33...
Page 10 - This increase is due largely to the passage of Public Law 88-60, 88th Congress, effective January 1, 1963, increasing the civil jurisdiction of the court from $3,000 to $10,000; 1,245 of the class GS cases filed from January 1, 1963 to June 30, 1963, involved more than $3,000.
Page 5 - ... previous year and the dealy between pretrial conference and trial was 5 months. In view of the large number of jury cases pending and being placed on the ready calendar, it is anticipated that the time between joinder of issue, pretrial conference, and trial will continue to increase. Civil nonjury cases -were being scheduled for trial within 2 months after joinder of issue. During the first half of the present fiscal year 45,285 criminal cases were filed as compared with 39,137 in the same period...
Page 10 - The Honorable the ATTORNEY GENERAL, Washington, DC DEAR MR. ATTORNEY GENERAL: I have the honor to submit herein the Annual Report of the District of Columbia Court of General Sessions for the fiscal year July 1, 1962, through June 30, 1963.