NCJ Number
174988
Date Published
1997
Length
43 pages
Annotation
This testimony by Richard M. Stana -- Acting Associate Director of the U.S. General Accounting Office's Administration of Justice Issues, General Government Division -- before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts reports on the results of a GAO review of the Federal judiciary's assessment of its bankruptcy-judgeship needs in the 1993, 1995, and 1997 assessment cycles.
Abstract
Stana's testimony focused on three principal issues: the process, policies, and workload standards that the Judicial Conference of the United States used to assess the bankruptcy districts' requests for additional bankruptcy judgeships; how the judiciary applied its policies and workload standards across the districts that requested bankruptcy judgeships; and the extent of non-case-related travel in 1995 and 1996 by bankruptcy judges in the 14 districts for which the Judicial Conference of the United States has requested bankruptcy judgeships in 1997. Stana reports that the GAO review found that the Bankruptcy Committee and the Judicial Conference generally followed the Judicial Conference's process and policies and consistently applied the Conference's statistical workload standards in assessing individual district's requests for additional judgeships in 1993, 1995, and 1997. 1 figure and 10 tables