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Dear President Clinton, Carl W. Tobias
Dear President Clinton, Carl W. Tobias
Law Faculty Publications
Professor Tobias offers advice on judicial selection philosophy for the newly reelected President Bill Clinton.
Magistrate Judges In The Montana Federal District, Carl W. Tobias
Magistrate Judges In The Montana Federal District, Carl W. Tobias
Law Faculty Publications
Over the last three decades, growing caseloads and finite resources have fostered expansion of the jurisdiction, responsibilities, prestige and compensation of United States Magistrate Judges. Passage of the Civil Justice Reform Act (CJRA) of 1990, which required local experimentation with procedures for reducing expense and delay in civil litigation, propelled this development in many of the ninety-four federal districts across the country. The United States District Court for the District of Montana has quite strongly evidenced these phenomena. Perhaps most important, the CJRA expense and delay reduction plan that the district prescribed in 1991 included an opt-out procedure which it …