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THE COURT-ANNEXED ARBITRATION ACT OF 1978,

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COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-FIFTH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

S. 2253

TO AMEND TITLE 28 OF THE UNITED STATES CODE TO
ENCOURAGE PROMPT, INFORMAL, AND INEXPENSIVE RESO-
LUTION OF CIVIL CASES BY USE OF ARBITRATION IN THE
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURTS

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COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY

JAMES O. EASTLAND, Mississippi, Chairman

EDWARD M. KENNEDY, Massachusetts

BIRCH BAYH, Indiana

ROBERT C. BYRD, West Virginia
JAMES ABOUREZK, South Dakota
JAMES R. ALLEN, Alabama
JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR., Delaware
JOHN C. CULVER, Iowa

HOWARD M. METZENBAUM, Ohio
DENNIS DECONCINI, Arizona
PAUL HATFIELD, Montana

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
MICHAEL J. ALTIER, Deputy Counsel

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Opening statement: Hon. Dennis DeConcini, U.S. Senator from Arizona, chairman, Subcommittee on Improvements in Judicial Machinery__ Witnesses:

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
Justice.

Robert Coulson, president, American Arbitration Association, New
York, N.Y..

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Hon. James R. Cavanaugh, judge, Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia, Pa...

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Lewis Jay Gordon, chairman, Compulsory Arbitration Committee,
Philadelphia Bar Association..

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Craig Spangenberg, chairman, congressional liaison, Association of
Trial Lawyers of America..

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Charles M. Tatelbaum, chairman, Eastern District Commercial
Law League of America. -

Alphabetical Listing of Witnesses:

Bell, Hon. Griffin B., Attorney General of the United States, accompanied 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 of Justice___

Cavanaugh, Hon. James R., judge, Court of Common Pleas, Phila-
delphia, Pa.

Coulson, Robert, president, American Arbitration Association, New
York, N. Y

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Gordon, Lewis Jay, chairman, Compulsory Arbitration Committee,
Philadelphia Bar Association..

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Spangenberg, Craig, chairman, congressional liaison, Association of
Trial Lawyers of America..

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Tatelbaum, Charles M., chairman, Eastern District Commercial
Law League of America__.

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APPENDIX

District court rules for pilot projects: District of Connecticut, Eastern
District of Pennsylvania, Northern District of California and Southern
District of New York..

Letter of March 3, 1978 from Richard A. Givens, chairman, Committee
on Federal Legislation, New York County Lawyers' Association,
accompanied by report submitted by the New York County Lawyers'
Association: "Disapproval of proposed legislation to Encourage Arbi-
tration of Civil Cases in the U.S. District Courts," February, 1978___
Letter from the Public Citizen Litigation Group, April 12, 1978__
Letter from Baltasar Corrada, Resident Commissioner, Puerto Rico,
April 24, 1978___

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Report of the conference on arbitration under local rule, held at the Fed-
eral 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___.
Letter of July 11, 1978, from Steven L. Liebo, assistant research director,
Defense Research Institute, Inc., accompanied by a statement sub-
mitted 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___.

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