28 U.S.C. § 333 — Judicial conferences of circuits

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Each circuit's chief judge can call a Judicial Conference of active judges once or twice a year. The conference discusses court business and ways to improve justice, and the chief judge may preside. Every summoned judge may attend, and circuit bar members must be able to participate under the court's rules.

The chief judge of each circuit can call a conference of the circuit, district, magistrate, and bankruptcy judges who are in active service. The chief judge can summon this conference every year, but must call it at least once every two years. The chief judge picks the time and place. The purpose is to discuss the courts' business and find ways to make justice run better in that circuit. This meeting is called the Judicial Conference of the circuit, and the chief judge may preside over it. Judges of the District Court of Guam, the District Court of the Virgin Islands, and the District Court of the Northern Mariana Islands can also be summoned to their own circuits' conferences — again, at least once every two years, and possibly every year. Every judge who is summoned may attend. Each circuit's court of appeals must make rules that provide for members of that circuit's bar to be represented and to actively take part in the conference.

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The chief judge of each circuit may summon biennially, and may summon annually, the circuit, district, magistrate, and bankruptcy judges of the circuit, in active service, to a conference at a time and place that he designates, for the purpose of considering the business of the courts and advising means of improving the administration of justice within such circuit. He may preside at such conference, which shall be known as the Judicial Conference of the circuit. The judges of the District Court of Guam, the District Court of the Virgin Islands, and the District Court of the Northern Mariana Islands may also be summoned biennially, and may be summoned annually, to the conferences of their respective circuits.

Every judge summoned may attend.

The court of appeals for each circuit shall provide by its rules for representation and active participation at such conference by members of the bar of such circuit.

Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 903; Dec. 29, 1950, ch. 1185, 64 Stat. 1128; Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 655, § 38, 65 Stat. 723; Pub. L. 85–508, § 12(e), July 7, 1958, 72 Stat. 348; Pub. L. 95–598, title II, § 210, Nov. 6, 1978, 92 Stat. 2661; Pub. L. 101–650, title III, § 320, Dec. 1, 1990, 104 Stat. 5117; Pub. L. 104–134, title I, § 101[(a)] [title III, § 305], Apr. 26, 1996, 110 Stat. 1321, 1321–36; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 104–140, § 1(a), May 2, 1996, 110 Stat. 1327; Pub. L. 110–406, § 9, Oct. 13, 2008, 122 Stat. 4293.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 646 · 62 Stat. 903
1950Amended · Act of Dec. 29, 1950, ch. 1185 · 64 Stat. 1128
1951Amended · Act of Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 655 · 65 Stat. 723
1958Amended · Pub. L. 85-508 · 72 Stat. 348
1978Amended · Pub. L. 95-598 · 92 Stat. 2661
1990Amended · Pub. L. 101-650 · 104 Stat. 5117
1996Amended · Pub. L. 104-134 · 110 Stat. 1321, 1321
1996Amended · Pub. L. 104-140 · 110 Stat. 1327
2008Amended · Pub. L. 110-406 · 122 Stat. 4293

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