§479 Information on Litigation Management and Cost and Delay Reduction

Summary

Within four years after this chapter became law, the Judicial Conference must write a complete report on all plans it got under section 472(d). The Director of the Federal Judicial Center and the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts can give advice while the report is being written. The Judicial Conference must send the report to the U.S. district courts and to the Judiciary Committees of the Senate and House. The Judicial Conference must keep studying how to make court case management and dispute resolution better and must give recommendations to district courts. It must also make and update a Manual for Litigation Management and Cost and Delay Reduction, after reviewing the plans under section 472 and the demonstration and pilot programs under sections 104 and 105 of the Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990. The Manual must describe and analyze the best case‑management techniques and alternative dispute resolution programs, as identified by the Judicial Conference and the two Directors.