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Overwhelming caseloads, substantial litigation delays and spiraling costs have prompted Congress to take a fresh look at expanding the number of judges sitting on lower federal courts.
In a hearing Wednesday held by the House Committee on the Judiciary, both congress members and witnesses, including those from San Diego, characterized the situation as a crisis that has been decades in the making.
“For 20 years-plus we’ve been in a judicial emergency,” Chief District Judge Kimberly Mueller of the Eastern District of California testified to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
The Judicial Conference of the United States the policymaking body of the federal courts has proposed that Congress create 65 new permanent judgeships across certain district courts to provide relief to 663 existing positions, as well as convert eight temporary seats to permanent. California should get 23, the conference said, including four in the Southern Dis
Judges tell of case delays, high caseloads as House committee considers expanding judgeships
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