COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY JAMES O. EASTLAND, Mississippi, Chairman EDWARD M. KENNEDY, Massachusetts BIRCH BAYH, Indiana ROBERT C. BYRD, West Virginia HOWARD M. METZENBAUM, Ohio STROM THURMOND, South Carolina CHARLES MCC. MATHIAS, JR., Maryland WILLIAM L. SCOTT, Virginia PAUL LAXALT, Nevada ORRIN G. HATCH, Utah MALCOLM WALLOP, Wyoming FRANCIS C. ROSENBERGER, Chief Counsel and Staff Director SUBCOMMITTEE ON IMPROVEMENTS IN JUDICIAL MACHINERY DENNIS DECONCINI, Arizona, Chairman JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR., Delaware ROBERT C. BYRD, West Virginia MALCOLM WALLOP, Wyoming ROMANO ROMANI, Staff Director ROBERT E. FEIDLER, Counsel (II) 1370300 Opening statement: Hon. Dennis DeConcini, U.S. Senator from Arizona, chairman, Subcommittee on Improvements in Judicial Machinery.. Hon. Griffin B. Bell, Attorney General of the United States, accom- panied by: Daniel J. Meador, Assistant Attorney General, Office for Improvements in the Administration of Justice, and John M. Beal, Attorney, Office for Improvements in the Administration of Robert Coulson, president, American Arbitration Association, New Hon. James R. Cavanaugh, judge, Court of Common Pleas, Phila- 58 Bell, Hon. Griffin B., Attorney General of the United States, accom- panied by: Beal, John M., attorney, Office for Improvements in the Administration, of Justice, and Meador, Daniel J., Assistant Attorney General, Office for Improvements in the Administration Cavanaugh, Hon. James R., judge, Court of Common Pleas, Phila- APPENDIX District court rules for pilot projects: District of Connecticut, Eastern Letter of March 3, 1978 from Richard A. Givens, chairman, Committee Letter from the Public Citizen Litigation Group, April 12, 1978__ Letter from Baltasar Corrada, Resident Commissioner, Puerto Rico, Page 135 135, 140 Report of the conference on arbitration under local rule, held at the Federal Judicial Center, May 24, 1978. Correspondence between Dennis DeConcini, chairman, Subcommittee on Improvements to Judicial Machinery and Griffin B. Bell, Attorney General of the United States, June 19, 1978 and June 28, 1978______ 135, Letter of July 11, 1978, from Steven L. Liebo, assistant research director, Defense Research Institute, Inc., accompanied by a statement submitted by the Defense Research Institute.. Statement of the American Insurance Association Fidelity and Surety Committee.. Report submitted by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania... 140 143 144 |