Federal Judgeships: General Accuracy of District and Appellate Judgeship Case-Related Workload Measures
GAO-08-928T
Published: Jun 17, 2008. Publicly Released: Jun 17, 2008.
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Biennially, the Judicial Conference, the federal judiciary's principal policymaking body, assesses the need for additional judges. The assessment is based on a variety of factors, but begins with quantitative case-related workload measures. This testimony focuses on (1) whether the judiciary's quantitative case-related workload measures from 1993 were reasonably accurate; and (2) the reasonableness of any proposed methodologies to update the 1993 workload measures. The comments in this testimony are based on a report GAO issued in May 2003.
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