44.589/2: C 83/12 THE COURT-ANNEXED ARBITRATION ACT OF 1978, COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY NINETY-FIFTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON S. 2253 TO AMEND TITLE 28 OF THE UNITED STATES CODE TO 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 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 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- Robert Coulson, president, American Arbitration Association, New Page 3 1 16 34 Hon. James R. Cavanaugh, judge, Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia, Pa... 58 Lewis Jay Gordon, chairman, Compulsory Arbitration Committee, 85 Craig Spangenberg, chairman, congressional liaison, Association of 108 115 Charles M. Tatelbaum, chairman, Eastern District Commercial 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- Coulson, Robert, president, American Arbitration Association, New 16 58 34 Gordon, Lewis Jay, chairman, Compulsory Arbitration Committee, 85 Spangenberg, Craig, chairman, congressional liaison, Association of 108 Tatelbaum, Charles M., chairman, Eastern District Commercial 115 APPENDIX District court rules for pilot projects: District of Connecticut, Eastern Letter of March 3, 1978 from Richard A. Givens, chairman, Committee 121 131 133 134 Page 135 135, 140 Report of the conference on arbitration under local rule, held at the Fed- Report submitted by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District 140 143 144 |