- The Judicial Conference of the United States today agreed to recommend to Congress the creation of new district and court of appeals judgeships (pdf) to meet workload demands in certain courts.
- The recommendation, approved today by the federal Judiciary’s national policy-making body at its biannual meeting in Washington, asks Congress to create two permanent judgeships in the courts of appeals [specifically 2 more for the Ninth Circuit, raising the number of authorized judgeships from 29 to 31], and 66 permanent district court judgeships, convert seven temporary district court judgeships to permanent status, and extend two existing temporary district court judgeships for an additional five years.
The proposal would increase CD Cal's 28 judges with 9 more judges; ED Cal's 6 judges with 4 more; ND Cal's 14 judges with 6 more; and SD Cal's 13 judges with 2 more.
Law.com has Judicial Conference Asks for More Federal Judges at March Meeting -- “There hasn’t been a new judiciary bill to add judgeships for about 30 years,” said Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Circuit Judge Lavenski Smith.
The last time new judges were added to the federal bench was in 1990 with 11 new circuit seats and 61 in districts. Prior to that, President Jimmy Carter saw the federal bench expand by more than 30%.
Bloomberg Law has Stanford Apologizes to US Circuit Judge for Disrupted Speech -- Students supporting LGBTQ rights protested Fifth Circuit’s Kyle Duncan.
The Recorder has Rory Little's Heckling as Principled Civil Disobedience
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