Evening star., 1942-02-28
Judicial Conference
Urges Further Study
OF Integrated Bar
Closed Meeting Today
To Bring Three-Doy
Session to Close

To Bring Three-Duy
Session to Close
With a closed meeting of jurists
Of the United States Court of Ap-
peals and of District Court to talk
over mutual problems and to seek
better ways of administering JUS
tice here, the Third Judicial Con-
ference was to terminate its three
day session today.
The conference voted to recon-
mend to the Judicial Council. COM
posed of the judges of the United
States Court of Appeals, that the
so-called integrated bar proposal be
given further study. Its propo-
nents say that the suggested legis-
lation would make for higher stand
ards for the bar and insure the pub
lie better service.
The conference continued the
Committee on the Integrated Bar,
headed by Attorney Paul F. Hannah,
and directed that it make its final
report to next years conference.
Meanwhile. the bar is to study the
projected legislation and copies of
it will be circulated and suggestions
invited.
The conference thanked the Com
mittee on the Integrated Bar for its
work and expressed similar senti-
ments for the Committee on Assign
ment of Counsel in Civil and Grim
inal Cases, headed by Justice James
M. Proctor of District Court; the
Committee on Criminal Procedure,
Of which United States Attorney Ed
ward NJ. Curran is chairman, rec
ommending its continuation for an
other year, and the Committee on
Standardized Jury Instructions
headed by Attorney Edmund D
Campbell, which it also continued
Urge Use Of Instructions.
In principle. the conference ap-
proved the jury instructions and
voted to urge upon the District Court
judges presiding in the civil jury
branch to use the present draft sc
far as possible for the balance of the
court year. The conference recog-
niZed that the individual judges
conception of the law in given case
must be preserved.
The conference voted to set up
Committee on Administrative Law
to study the complex problem aris-
ing out of decisions in the executive
branch of the Government and the
procedure of administrative agen'
cies.
Expressing its "affectionate regarc
and hope for the speedy recovery
of Justice oscar R. Luhring of the
District Court, who is i'll, the con-
ference by special resolution wen
on record as regretting his absence
from it's deliberations in which ht
has played large part.
Yesterday afternoons discussion
ran the gamut of better pre-trial
methods, problems arising out OF
administrative law, a more frank
criticism of the bench by the bal
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District Court, the larger part that
lawyers can play in the conferences
of the future, as well as other prob
lens.
Justice Eicher Presides.
During part of yesterday after
Moons session, Chief Justice Ed
ward c. Eicher of District Court
presided, as did Associate Justice
Fred M. Vinson of the appellate
court. When general open discus
sion was reached, Justice James w
Morris of District Court assumed
the presiding officers chair.
Addresses were given by Attorney
Louis G. Caldwell and Commissioner
John w. Scott of the Federal Power
Commission on Administrative Law
in Its Relation to the Courts of the
District of Columbia" Attorney
William p. MacCracken, jr., in dis
cussing this topic, pointed out that
the courts in the District are really
national courts, because of the vol
ume of business dealing with the
executive branch of the Govern
ment. In any reform of admins
trative procedure, he said, District
Court and the United States Court
of Appeals here must play an i'm
portant role.
e. Barrett Prettyman, president
of the District Bar Association, told
the conference the administrative
process is a necessary and desirable
part Of Government, but that 1t
must be fitted into the mold o1
democratic government and held
within constitutional principles. Ad-
ministrative process, he declared,
will have to have procedures that
are expeditions, simple and economi-
cal, that definite issues must be pre-
sented in cases, that rules of evi-
dence must prevail and the rights o1
the individual must be preserved.
Discuss Presentation.
A panel discussion, participated
in by Associate Justices Justin Miller
and Wiley aRutledge Of the Appellate
Court and Justices Jesse G. Adkins
and Bolitha j. Laws Of District
Court, revolved around: "The Pre-
sentation of Cases in Trial and Ap-
pellate Courts" Justice Miller ad-
vised the lawyers never to submit
a case without oral argument, that
they should give simple, impress
sionistic sketch Of their cases and
state clearly the conflicting conten-
tions and asserted that there Is nc
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