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23 Third Branch 1 (1991)

handle is hein.journals/thirdbran23 and id is 1 raw text is: i. log Year-End Report ot the eeral Judiciary William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States STATE OF THE JUDICIARY A theme of the judicial activities of 1990 has been that of the collabo- ration of efforts and ideas among the three Branches and among vari- ous segments of the national and in- ternational judiciary. The year has seen joint meetings and conferences at which representatives of the three Branches, representatives of the var- ious levels of federal and state judi- ciaries, and even representatives of the judicial systems of other coun- tries have combined their energies to seek creative solutions to prob- lems of mutual concern. The business of the federal courts continued to multiply during 1990, fueled by drug cases and an ever- rising tide of personal bankruptcies. Criminal case filings in the district courts rose 6 percent to nearly 49,000, doubling the growth re- corded last year and marking the tenth consecutive increase in filings. New drug filings were up 6 percent, while filings for violations of weap- ons and immigration laws climbed more than 23 percent each as the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms used their ex- panded resources to attack drug net- works. Drug cases were also a factor in the 3 percent rise in the caseload of the courts of appeals, which reached nearly 41,000 filings this year. Ap- peals of drug cases increased 29 per- cent and accounted for 60 percent of all criminal appeals filed this year. Appeals of sentences imposed under the Sentencing Guidelines added 1,750 cases to the criminal appeals workload in 1990. Bankruptcy petitions filed in the courts during 1990 rose to 725,000, as personal bankruptcies rose 14 per- See Year-End Report, page 2 B CH See Cameras Experiment, page 8 Newsletter of the Federal Courts 4 Vol. 23 Number 1 January 1991 Curts Selected for Cameras Experime t The Judicial Conference's Ad Hoc Committee on Cameras in the Court- room, on behalf of the Conference, has selected two courts of appeals and six district courts to participate in a three-year experiment that will permit the photographing, recording, and broadcasting of certain civil pro- ceedings. The courts participating in the three-year experiment will be as follows: m U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit n U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ] Southern District of Indiana * District of Massachusetts Eastern District of Michigan s Southern District of New York *1 Eastern District of Pennsylvania n Western District of Washington The experiment, which will com- mence July 1, 1991, and conclude June 30, 1994, will be conducted in accordance with guidelines ap- proved by the Conference at its Sep- tember 1990 meeting. Six circuits and 13 districts volunteered to participate in the experiment. In selecting the participating courts, the Ad Hoc Committee sought to maximize the number of instances where broad-

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