'Split decision' pending in Congress: Judiciary Committee Oks bill to divide 9th Circuit, despite judges' opposition

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Pending Senate legislation would split the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals, only the third such split in US history. The effort to divide the largest federal circuit has already gone farther than three previous attempts, winning the Senate Judiciary Committee's endorsement, but the court itself and all its official organs, as well as five of the nine statewide bar assns concerned, oppose the change. The measure's sponsors, Sens Conrad Burns and Slade Gorton, hope to eliminate CA's influence on their states' cases.

Management, Court administration

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In his mother's footsteps: judge's son, if confirmed, will join her on 9th Circuit

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President Clinton has nominated law professor William A Fletcher for the 9th Circuit US Court of Appeals, where his mother already sits. Such a pairing is unprecedented in the federal courts, though Judge Learned Hand and his cousin Augustus N Hand sat together on the 2nd Circuit, and presently Chief Judge Richard S Arnold and his brother Morris S Arnold sit on the 8th Circuit, and 4th Circuit Judge Diana Jane Gribbon Motz and MD US District Judge J Frederick Motz are married.

Social aspects, Officials and employees, Appointments, resignations and dismissals, Family, Judicial selection, Fletcher, William A., Fletcher, Betty Binns

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Moment of truth: justices may settle admissibility of lie detector tests once and for all

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The US Supreme Court will rule on the admissibility of polygraph evidence in the Scheffer case. The 1993 Daubert decision revising the admissibility standard for scientific evidence could affect the decision in Scheffer, which is coming to the Supreme Court from the US Court of Military Appeals. The bar on lie detector tests admissibility could fall if the Supreme Court agrees with the standards for admission set forth by the military court.

Electromedical equipment, Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing, Polygraphs, Evidence (Law), Testimony, Evidence, Scientific, Scientific evidence (Law), Lie detectors and detection, Lie detector tests

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