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1 Donna Stienstra, Chief District Judges' Management of Court Caseloads: A Survey by the Federal Judicial Center, April 1996 1 (1996)

handle is hein.congcourts/chiedisma0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Chief District Judges' Management of Court Caseloads: A Survey by the Federal Judicial Center, April 1996 Summary Prepared for the Court Administration and Case Management Committee Meeting, June 1998 Donna Stienstra In April 1996, the Center posed a number of questions to chief judges asking about their role in managing their district's caseflow. The judges' responses are shown below. The questions were posed to the judges, via an overhead projector, at the Center's annual workshop for chief judges. The judges responded through an electronic handset, and their responses were recorded instantaneously, providing the basis for subsequent small group discussions. You should keep in mind, therefore, that the responses are to some extent off the top of the head-i.e., the judges did not have an opportunity to check records that might have verified some of their responses. The summary below shows, for each question, all the options offered to the chief judges, the percentage who selected each option, and the total number of judges who responded to the question. Sources of Difficulty in Managing the District's Caseload Nearly half the chief judges said they have no problems managing their district's caseflow. For those who did, the greatest number said high criminal filings are the source of their difficulties. A notable minority said inadequate authority is the source of their difficulties. 1. Which of the following causes the greatest difficulty for you in managing your district's caseflow? 5.0 Multiple court locations 8.0 Wide variations in the speediness of the judges 13.0 Inadequate authority for the chiefjudge to manage the court's caseload 6.0 High number of unusually demanding civil cases 18.0 High criminal filings 2.0 Inadequate caseload information for making management decisions 47.0 I don't really have any problems managing the court's caseload. N= 83 Dealing with the Chronically Slow Judge A series of questions asked the chief judges whether certain actions should be taken or had been taken to assist a chronically slow judge. (This phrase was used to distinguish the chronic problem from a temporary one caused by, for example, an unusually large case.)

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