United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2003-06-24 monographic deposited born digital 12 p. GA 1.13:GAO-03-937T https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-937T P0b002ee1803a3a0d f:d03937t DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-937T machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-937T GAO-03-937T Hiring policies Judges Labor force Policy evaluation Strategic planning Work measurement Testimony A07327 GAO appeared before the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property, House Committee on the Judiciary to discuss the results of our review and assessment of case-related workload measures for district court and courts of appeals judges. Biennially, the Judicial Conference of the United States, the federal judiciary's principal policymaking body, assesses the judiciary's needs for additional judgeships. If the Conference determines that additional judgeships are needed, it transmits a request to Congress identifying the number, type (courts of appeals, district, or bankruptcy), and location of the judgeships it is requesting. In assessing the need for additional district and appellate court judgeships, the Judicial Conference considers a variety of information, including responses to its biennial survey of individual courts, temporary increases or decreases in case filings, and other factors specific to an individual court. However, the Conference's analysis begins with the quantitative case-related workload measures it has adopted for the district courts and courts of appeals--weighted case filings and adjusted case filings, respectively. These two measures recognize, to different degrees, that the time demands on judges are largely a function of both the number and complexity of the cases on their dockets. Some types of cases may demand relatively little time and others may require many hours of work. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-937T/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-937T.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-937T/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-937T.pdf GAO-03-937T https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-937T Testimony GAO-03-937T; Federal Judgeships: General Accuracy of District and Appellate Judgeship Case-Related Workload Measures; Hiring policies Judges Labor force Policy evaluation Strategic planning Work measurement