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GGD-96-71R 1 (1996-03-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaclcc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 General Government Division B-271074 March 8, 1996 The Honorable Charles E. Grassley Chairman, Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate Dear Mr. Chairman: This letter responds to your May 4, 1995, request that we review the methodology of any final draft or published reports of the task forces on gender, racial, and/or ethnic bias formed by the federal circuit courts of appeals. We reviewed the published Ninth Circuit report' on gender and the two District of Columbia Circuit task force draft final reports2 on the effects of gender and the effects of race and ethnicity on the operations of the federal courts. No other task forces had issued final draft or published reports as of June 1, 1995. BACKGROUND As described in our September 18, 1995, report to you,3 9 of the 12 federal circuit courts of appeals had, as of June 1, 1995, formed task forces to study gender, racial, and/or ethnic issues. The Eleventh Circuit had created an ad hoc committee, and the Fourth and Fifth Circuits had not established task forces. Two circuits, the Sixth and the Ninth, had established two task forces each, one on gender and one on racial/ethnic issues. The Ninth Circuit's task force was established by its Circuit Conference, and the remaining task forces were established by each circuit's Circuit Council. The Ninth and D.C. Circuit task forces were created in 1991 and 1990, respectively. The Ninth Circuit task force was established partly in response to a request from its Lawyer Representatives Coordinating Committee to examine the role of gender in the circuit Created in part as a result of the recommendations of the Study Committee on Gender Bias 'The Effects of Gender in the Federal Courts: The Final Report of the Ninth Circuit Gender Bias Task Force, Southern California Law Review, (Vol. 67, No. 4, May 1994). 'Draft Final Report of the Special Committee on Gender to the D.C. Circuit Task Force on Gender, Race and Ethnic Bias, (January 1995) and Draft Final Report of the Special Committee on Race and Ethnicity to the D.C. Circuit Task Force on Gender, Race and Ethnic Bias (January 1995). Both reports were published in their final form in January 1996. 'Federal Judiciary: Observations on Selected Issues (GGD-95-236BR, Sept 18, 1995). Page~ 1(_ GAIG-67l ici BaRakFoc3eot Page I GAO/GGD-96-71R Circuit Bias Task Force Reports

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