Report of the Proceedings of the
Special Meeting of the

Judicial Conference of the United States

JUNE 10, 1969

The Judicial Conference of the United States met on June 10, 1969, in special session pursuant to the call of the Chief Justice of the United States issued under 28 U.S.C. 331. The Chief Justice presided and the following members of the Conference were present:

District of Columbia Circuit:

Chief Judge David L. Bazelon

Judge John J. Sirica (designated in place of Chief Judge Edward M. Curran who was unavoidably absent)

First Circuit:

Chief Judge Bailey Aldrich

Judge Edward T. Gignoux, District of Maine

Second Circuit:

Chief Judge J. Edward Lumbard

Chief Judge Sidney Sugarman, Southern District of New York

Third Circuit:

Chief Judge William Henry Hastie

Chief Judge Wallace S. Gourley, Western District of Pennsylvania Fourth Circuit:

Chief Judge Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr.

Chief Judge Walter E. Hoffman, Eastern District of Virginia

Fifth Circuit:

Chief Judge John R. Brown

Chief Judge G. Harrold Carswell, Northern District of Florida

Sixth Circuit:

Chief Judge Paul C. Weick

Chief Judge Mac Swinford, Eastern District of Kentucky

Seventh Circuit:

Chief Judge Latham Castle

Judge Edwin A. Robson, Northern District of Illinois

Eighth Circuit:

Chief Judge Martin D. Van Oosterhout

Chief Judge Roy W. Harper, Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri Ninth Circuit:

Chief Judge Richard H. Chambers

Judge Albert C. Wollenberg, Northern District of California

Tenth Circuit:

Chief Judge Alfred P. Murrah

Chief Judge Arthur J. Stanley, District of Kansas

Court of Claims:

Chief Judge Wilson Cowen

Court of Customs and Patent Appeals:

Chief Judge Eugene Worley

Circuit Judge Robert A. Ainsworth, Jr., Chairman of the Committee on Court Administration, and the entire membership of the Committee attended the session of the Conference.

The Honorable Joseph D. Tydings, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Improvements in Judicial Machinery of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, and Mr. Albert Figinski, Counsel for the Subcommittee, attended the opening of the session and Senator Tydings addressed the Conference on pending legislation of interest to the federal judiciary.

Mr. Justice Tom C. Clark, United States Supreme Court (retired), Director of the Federal Judicial Center, Mr. Ernest C. Friesen, Jr., Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, Mr. William E. Foley, Deputy Director, Mr. William R. Sweeney, Assistant Director, and members of the Administrative Office staff were also in attendance.

COURT ADMINISTRATION

Judge Robert A. Ainsworth, Jr., Chairman of the Committee on Court Administration, presented the report of the Committee. After discussion of the report, which began at 10 a.m. and continued until 3:30 p.m., with a forty-five minute break for lunch, the Conference voted to adopt the following resolutions:

I. A judge in regular active service shall not accept compensaton of any
kind, whether in the form of loans, gifts, gratuities, honoraria or
otherwise, for services hereafter performed or to be performed by him
except that provided by law for the performance of his judicial duties.
Provided however, the judicial council of the circuit (or in the case of
courts not part of a circuit, the judges of the court in active service)
may upon application of a judge approve the acceptance of compen-
sation for the performance of services other than his judicial duties
upon a determination that the services are in the public interest or
are justified by exceptional circumstances and that the services will
not interfere with his judicial duties. Both the services to be performed
and the compensation to be paid shall be made a matter of public
record and reported to the Judicial Conference of the United States.
II. Each judge shall file annually (commencing May 15, 1970 for the
preceding calendar year) with the Judicial Conference of the United
States, on forms to be approved by the Judicial Conference, a statement
of his investments and other assets held by him at any time during the
year as well as a statement of income, including gifts and bequests,
from any source, identifying the source, and a statement of liabilities.

The statements shall be kept on file with the Judicial Conference and available for such use as the Conference and the Judicial Councils of the circuits may require, as well as for public disclosure as determined by the Judicial Conference to be in the public interest, pursuant to regulations promulgated by the Conference.

The Committee on Court Administration shall submit to the Judicial Conference of the United States at its September 1969 session a progress report on the preparation of forms and regulations necessary to implement this resolution.

III. The Committee on Court Administration shall submit to the Judicial Conference of the United States at its September 1969 session a progress report on the formulation of standards of judicial conduct for federal judges.

IV. The Committee on Court Administration shall draft proposed legislation to submit to the Judicial Conference at its September session to ensure that the Conference is able to enforce the resolutions set forth above.

The Conference authorized the Chief Justice to release the foregoing resolutions at once and to make distribution of them to all federal judges.

EARL WARREN,

Chief Justice of the United States.

JUNE 12, 1969.

INDEX

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Additional judgeships..

Additional positions in Administrative Office___
Administrative Office of the United States Courts:
Additional positions..
Report of the Director__

Administrative regulations..

Admiralty rules.......

Amendments, statutory ---.

American Law Institute study.

Appellate rules.............

Appointments and payments under Criminal Justice Act..

Appropriations___.

Asset and arrangement cases, fees in..

Bail Reform Act...

Bankruptcy administration:

Audit of statistical reports.

Committee on, report of------

Developments in the use of Chapter XIII cases_

Fees and charges in reopened proceedings..
Fees in asset and arrangement cases.

Legislation....

Matters under submission..

New case filings....

Referees:

Arrangements, changes in..

Retirement and tenure of..

Salaries of..

Seminars for..

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20

24

16

26

Cost of living allowances outside the continental United States or in Alaska.
Court administration:

4223

14

27

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