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Federal Judiciary: Bankruptcy Judgeship Requests, 1993-1997

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Sept. 22, 1997
Report No. T-GGD-97-183
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Summary:

This testimony reviews the federal judiciary's assessment of its need for bankruptcy judges from 1993 through 1997--a significant issue given that each bankruptcy judgeship costs about $720,000 to establish and about $575,000 each year to maintain. GAO focuses on three main issues: (1) the process, policies, and workload standards that the Judicial Conference of the United States used to assess the bankruptcy districts' requests for additional bankruptcy judgeships; (2) how the judiciary applied its policies and workload standards across the districts that asked for bankruptcy judgeships; and (3) the extent of noncase-related travel in 1995 and 1996 by bankruptcy judges in the 14 districts for which the Judicial Conference of the United States has requested bankruptcy judgeships in 1997. GAO discusses this last issue in greater detail in GAO/GGD-97-166R, Aug. 8, 1997.

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