§479 Information on litigation management and cost and delay reduction

Summary

Four years after the law goes into effect, the Judicial Conference must write a full report on every plan sent in under section 472(d). The Directors of the Federal Judicial Center and the Administrative Office can give advice while the report is being prepared. The Judicial Conference must send the report to all U.S. district courts and to the Judiciary Committees of the Senate and House. The Judicial Conference must keep studying how district courts can manage cases better and use dispute resolution more effectively, and must give recommendations to the courts. It must also create, update, and send to the district courts a manual about managing cases and cutting costs and delays. That manual must be based on the plans under section 472 and the programs under sections 104 and 105 of the Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990, and must describe the methods and dispute-resolution programs the Judicial Conference and the two Directors consider most effective.