Lanterna Rally

Author: Committee On The District Of Columbia

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9780332325071

Excerpt from D. C. Supreme Court: Hearing and Markup Before the Subcommittee on Judiciary and Education and the Committee on the District of Columbia, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session This volume includes the transcript of the 1-day hearing on April 28, 1993 by the Subcommittee on Judiciary and Education and the full committee markup on June 9, 1993, which commences on page 177. An appendix starts on page 269. The bill, as reported, elevates the present nine members of the D. C. Court of Appeals to a new D. C. Supreme Court, at no increase in pay. Through attrition the Supreme Court would eventually have only seven members. The President would nominate for confirmation by the Senate nine new members of the D.C. Court of Appeals from lists supplied by the D.C. Judicial Nomination Commission under present law. The District of Columbia would then have the three tier court system used in 39 States - two appellate courts and one trial court. The new system will permit one full appellate court to decide im portant questions of District of Columbia law and an intermediate court, often meeting in three-judge panels, to review trial court and administrative agency decisions for error. Several issues discussed in markup were considered in proposed amendments. An amendment (on page 196) by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton held the pay for new justices of the D.C. Supreme Court at their present level - the rate prescribed by law for judges of the United States Court of Appeals. The amendment also set the sala ries for judges on the D.C. Court of Appeals as midway between the new D.C. Supreme Court judges and the trial judges of the D.C. Court of Appeals as midway between the new D.C. Supreme Court judges and the trial judges of the D.C. Superior Court. A substitute amendment by Congressman Ballenger (page 198) would have reduced the salaries for all three courts. Mr. Bal lenger's amendment was defeated and Ms. Norton's amendment was approved. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.