Word: districts
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...development in all fields (which now amounts to $17 billion), and such frills as highway beautification. Last week Wisconsin's John Byrnes, senior Republican on Ways and Means, got a call from the Interior Department informing him of a $2,000 grant for picnic facilities in his district. "That's only one of thousands," fumed Byrnes. "It's a nice thing, but it can be postponed...
...writer, a graduate of the College and the Law School and formerly a Lecturer in Government at Harvard and M.I.T., is Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts and an Honorary Senior Fellow of the Society of Fellows...
...appeals on the dockets of our courts of appeals in the federal system has increased. Ten per cent more cases were filed in these courts in fiscal 1967 than in 1966. Since 1960 the number of appeals in these courts has more than double. Cases in the federal district courts are increasing every year. Bankruptcy cases have now gone over the 200,000 level whereas only twenty years ago they numbered about 18,000 annually...
...median time interval form issue to trial in civil cases in our district courts increased to twelve months last year as compared with eleven month in the previous year. As the practicing bar so well knows, the picture in many of our state and local courts is far more serious. I suggest to you that the challenge which this critical situation poses for us is one which we must meet promptly, courageously and with the kind of initiative and imagination that has often characterized our national endeavors in other fields...
...well as the bench also bears a heavy responsibility for the lack of appreciation of the problems of administration of justice. This is apparent in our day-to-day observations. In two of our large metropolitan federal district courts, for example, reduced trial schedules have been in effect for virtually a full four-month period each year. When the courts attempted to carry on full schedules, serious objections were raised by members of the bar and the courts obligingly capitulated. Full co-operation by members of the bar, as officers of the court, is a prerequisite to the orderly processing...