Evening star., 1938-11-01
Faster Administration
Of Justice Here Is
Conference Goal
Justices Are to Meet
Friday and Saturday
At Charlottesville

Speedier administration of justice
in the courts here is the objective
toward which a two-day judicial
conference of justices of the United
States Court of Appeals and the
District Court will work at Char
lottesville, Va, on Friday and Sat-
urday.
Under the sponsorship of Chief
Justice D. Lawrence Groner of the
appellate tribunal, the first session
of the conference will be held at the
law school of the University of Vir-
ginia
Addressing the members concern
ing the results OF similar gatherings
held IN past years by Federal jurists
of the fourth circuit, as well as that
recently held under the chairman
ship of Chief Justice Charles Evans
Hughes, will be Judge John j.
Parker, senior circuit judge for the
fourth circuit.
Revamping Of Rules Sought.
Revamping the local rules of the
appellate tribunal to conform with
the rules Of civil procedure, promul-
gated by the Supreme Court, will be
one of the activities of the forth
coming conference. The justices
will turn their attention to a gen.
eral discussion of ways and means
for accelerating justice. The reduc-
ton of District Court dockets and a
general movement to make the deal
ing out of justice as current as may
be will be prominent on the agenda.
Pre-trial procedure, under which
extraneous matter or material on
which both sides can agree is elimi-
mated from the trial itself, will be
discussed, as provided under the new
Supreme Court rules.
On Friday evening banquet will
be held at the Pennington Country
Club and this will be attended also
by President and Mrs John L. New
comb OF the University of Virginia
and members of the faculty of the
law school.
Saturdays Conference.
Matters relating to the admins
tration of justice in the Federal
courts OF the DisCict of Columbia
Will be the subject of Saturdays
conference.
Invited to attend the conference,
IN addition to the justices of the
two courts, are:
John j. Parker, senior circuit
judge, 4th circuit; David A. Pine,
United States Attorney; Godfrey L.
Munter, president, District of Co.
lumbia Bar Association; Robert E.
Freer, president, Federal Bar Asso-
citation; VIM. Barron Kerkam, presi-
dent, American Patent Law Associ-
alton; F. Regis Noel, chairman, Dis
trict of Columbia Bar Association
Committee on New Court Building:
Wilbur l.. Gray. secretary, District
OF Columbia Bar Association; j.
Spalding Flannery, chairman, Dis
trict of Columbia Bar Association
Committee on Relations with United
States Court of Appeals; Percy H.
Marshall, chairman, District of
Columbia Bar Association Commit
tee on Relations with United States
District Court; JOS G. McGarraghy,
chairman, District of Columbia Bar
Association Committee on Relations
with United States Attorneys Of
flee; Paul F. Hannah, vice chair
man, Junior Bar Conference of
American Bar Association; Joseph
w. Stewart, clerk, United States
Court of Appeals; Col. Charles E.
Stewart. clerk, District Court of the
United States; DR.. John l.. New
comb, president, University of Vir-
ginia; Armistead M. Dobie, dean of
the Law School of the University
TO Virginia; F. D. G. Ribble, Law
School of the University of Vir-
ginia; Thomas Benjamin Gay,
chairman, House of Delegates of the
American Bar Association; Prof.
William H. White, jr., University of
Virginia.