DIVERSITY OF CITIZENSHIP JURISDICTION/ HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON COURTS, CIVIL LIBERTIES, OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY NINETY-SIXTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON H.R. 1046 and H.R. 2202 DIVERSITY OF CITIZENSHIP JURISDICTION/MAGISTRATES REFORM-1979 44-811 O FEBRUARY 28, MARCH 1 AND 8, 1979 Serial No. 22 Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1979 COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY PETER W. RODINO, JR., New Jersey, Chairman JACK BROOKS, Texas ROBERT T. MATSUI, California ROBERT MCCLORY, Illinois DAN LUNGREN, California F. JAMES SENSENBRENNER, JR., Wisconsin ALAN A. PARKER, General Counsel SUBCOMMITTEE ON COURTS, CIVIL LIBERTIES, AND THE ADMINISTRATION Cameron, Hon. James Duke, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of the State of Arizona; chairman of the Conference of Chief Justices of the United Hunter, Hon. Elmo B., United States District Judge for the Western Dis- Prepared statement_ Meador, Hon. Daniel, Assistant Attorney General, Office for Improvements Prepared statement_-_- Mullinix, Edward W., American Bar Association_ Prepared statement_-_- Rowe. Thomas D., Associate Professor, Duke University Law School.. Shepherd, John C., American Bar Association__. Prepared statement__ ADDITIONAL MATERIAL Meador, Daniel J., Assistant Attorney General, letter dated June 25, 1979, President Carter's message to Congress announcing his program to reform (1) 1978 statistical data on diversity of citizenship jurisdiction__-- (2) Hunter, Federal Diversity Jurisdiction: The Unnecessary Pre- (1) Rowe, Abolishing Diversity jurisdiction: Positive Side Effects and Potential for Further Reforms, 92 HARV. L. REV. 963 (1979) __ (2) Letter from Chief Justice Robert F. Utter to Chairman Peter W. Rodino, Jr. (Apr. 26, 1979) and attached study of Impact on the (2) Meador, "The Federal Government and the State Courts," the Robert Houghwout Jackson lecture before the National College of (c) Breitel, Charles D., letter to Hon. Elizabeth Holtzman dated March 12, 354 (h) Beilfuss, Bruce F., Chief Justice, Supreme Court of the State of Wis- consin, letter to Chairman Kastenmeier dated March 23, 1979---- (i) Goffman, Louis J., Pennsylvania Bar Association, letter to Chairman (k) Lord, Hon. Joseph S. III, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Eastern 360 (a) Cleary, John J., executive director, Federal Defenders of San Diego, (b) Report of the Ad Hoc Committee to Study the High Cost of Litigation to the Seventh Circuit Judicial Committee and the Bar Association of (a) By Hon. Daniel J. Meador___ (1) Trial by Federal Magistrate: A constitutional analysis_ (2) Constitutionality of consent to trial before a Federal Magistrate_ (3) Letter from Hon. Daniel J. Meador to Hon. Robert W. Kasten- (d) Miller, Hon. James R. Jr., U.S. District Judge, U.S. District Court for 400 (f) Schwartz, Hon. Edward J. U.S. District Court, Southern District of California, letter to Chairman Rodino dated June 2, 1978__--- (g) Wailes, Mary G., State Bar of California, letter to Chairman Rodino (h) Metzner, Hon. Charles M., U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, letter to Chairman Kastenmeier dated August 4, 1978____. (i) Dagdigian, Richard H., U.S. Court Reporters Association letter to (j) Wellford, Harry W., U.S. District Court, Western District of Tennes- see, letter to members of the subcommittee dated March 7, 1979____ (k) Corrada, Hon. Baltasar, Resident Commissioner, Puerto Rico, letter |