Judiciary News
Judicial Conference Adopts Rules Changes - Confronts Projected Budget Shortfalls
Published onSeptember 15, 1999
The Judicial Conference of the United States today approved a series of changes to court rules aimed at bringing uniformity to the pretrial exchange of information while reducing expense and delay in certain civil cases.
Judicial Conference Seeks New Judgeships — Adequate Compensation for Judges and Others
Published onMarch 16, 1999
Spurred by increasing caseloads and the rapidly declining value of judicial salaries, the Judicial Conference of the United States today voted to ask Congress to create new judgeships and to adjust the pay of the President, judges, members of Congress, and senior executive branch officials.
Judicial Conference Convenes Fall Meeting
Published onSeptember 15, 1998
At its biannual meeting today in Washington, the Judicial Conference of the United States voted to ask its Committees on Codes of Conduct and Financial Disclosure to consider if the Conference should encourage all courts to maintain, in the clerk's office, a list for each judge of the companies in which the judge, or the judge's spouse, or minor child residing in the household, has a financial interest requiring recusal.
Judicial Conference Convenes Biannual Meeting
Published onMarch 10, 1998
The Judicial Conference of the United States today received a report on the impending crisis in courthouse construction that is facing the federal Judiciary.
Judicial Conference Endorses Cost-of-Living Salary Adjustment For All Government Leaders
Published onSeptember 23, 1997
The Judicial Conference of the United States today announced its support for a cost-of-living salary adjustment (COLA) for federal judges, members of Congress, and top officials in the executive branch.
Judicial Conference Seeks New Judgeships To Handle Growing Workloads At All Levels
Published onMarch 11, 1997
The Judicial Conference of the United States today voted to transmit to Congress a request to create new appellate, district, and bankruptcy judgeships.
Judicial Conference Convenes Biannual Meeting
Published onSeptember 17, 1996
The Judicial Conference of the United States today disapproved a proposed amendment to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which would have required the initial empaneling of a jury of 12 persons in all civil cases.
Judicial Conference Finalizes Long Range Plan
Published onSeptember 20, 1995
The Judicial Conference of the United States yesterday approved a lengthy series of recommendations from its Proposed Long Range Plan for the Federal Courts relating to federal court jurisdiction, adjudicative structure, governance, the allocation of resources, and other aspects of federal court operations and administration.
Judicial Conference Receives Long Range Plan
Published onMarch 14, 1995
The Judicial Conference of the United States today received from its Committee on Long Range Planning the first comprehensive long range plan in the history of the federal Judiciary.