APPOINTMENT OF ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON RULES IN CRIMINAL CASES. It is ordered: ORDER. 1. Pursuant to the Act of June 29, 1940 (Public, No. 675, 76th Congress, c. 445, 54 Stat. 688), the Court will undertake the preparation of rules of pleading, practice, and procedure with respect to proceedings prior to and including verdict, or finding of guilty or not guilty, in criminal cases in district courts of the United States. 2. To assist the Court in this undertaking, the Court appoints the following Advisory Committee to serve without compensation: Arthur T. Vanderbilt, Newark, New Jersey, Chairman. James J. Robinson, Professor of Law at the Indiana University Law School, Reporter. Alexander Holtzoff, Washington, D. C., Secretary. Newman F. Baker, Professor of Law at the Northwestern University Law School. George James Burke, Ann Arbor, Michigan. John J. Burns, Boston, Massachusetts. Frederick E. Crane, New York City. Gordon Dean, Washington, D. C. George H. Dession, Professor of Law at the Yale Law School. Sheldon Glueck, Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School. George Z. Medalie, New York City. Lester B. Orfield, Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska Law School. Murray Seasongood, Cincinnati, Ohio. J. O. Seth, Santa Fe, New Mexico. APPOINTMENT OF ADVISORY COMMITTEE. Order. John B. Waite, Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. Herbert Wechsler, Professor of Law at the Columbia Law School. G. Aaron Youngquist, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 3. It shall be the duty of the Advisory Committee, subject to the instructions of the Court, to prepare and submit to the Court a draft of rules as above described. 4. During the recess of the Court the CHIEF JUSTICE is authorized to fill any vacancy in the Advisory Committee which may occur through failure to accept appointment, resignation, or otherwise. 5. The Advisory Committee shall at all times be directly responsible to the Court. The Committee shall not incur expense or make any financial commitments except upon the approval of the Court as certified by the CHIEF JUSTICE or upon his order during a recess of the Court. FEBRUARY 3, 1941. AMENDMENT OF ORDER ESTABLISHING A TABLE OF FEES AND COSTS IN THE CIRCUIT COURTS OF APPEALS. ORDER. It is ordered, That the order of January 10, 1898, as amended by the order of February 28, 1898 (169 U. S. 740), establishing a table of fees and costs in the Circuit Courts of Appeals, be amended so as to read as follows: "Ordered, in pursuance of the act of Congress of February 19, 1897, 29 Stat. 536, c. 263, that the following table of fees and costs in the Circuit Courts of Appeals be, and the same is hereby, established, and fees and costs not exceeding those herein named shall be charged: "Docketing a case and filing the record.. Entering an appearance... Transferring a case to the printed calendar.. Entering a continuance..... Filing a motion, order, or other paper.. $5.00 .25 1.00 .25 .25 Entering any rule, or making or copying any record or other paper, for each one hundred words..... . .20 Entering a judgment or decree.. Every search of the records of the court and certifying the same... 1.00 1.00 1.00 Affixing a certificate and a seal to any paper.. Receiving, keeping, and paying money, in pursuance of any Preparing the record for the printer, indexing the same, .20 Order. Issuing a writ of error and accompanying papers, or a man date or other process.... Filing briefs, for each party appearing..... Copy of an opinion of the court, certified under seal, for each printed page (but not to exceed five dollars in the whole for any copy)... Attorney's docket fee. $5.00 5.00 1.00 20.00" It is further ordered, That this order shall apply to all cases docketed in a Circuit Court of Appeals on or after March 15, 1941. MARCH 10, 1941. AMENDMENT OF CRIMINAL RULES. ORDER. It is ordered, That the Rules of Practice and Procedure, after plea of guilty, verdict, or finding of guilt, in criminal cases brought in the District Courts of the United States and in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, promulgated by order of May 7, 1934 (292 U. S. 661), and amended by orders of May 24, 1937 (301 U. S. 717), May 31, 1938 (304 U. S. 592), and October 21, 1940 (311 U. S. 731), be and they hereby are made applicable to all proceedings after plea of guilty, verdict, or finding of guilt by the trial court where a jury is waived, in criminal cases in the District Courts of Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Canal Zone, and Virgin Islands, and in all subsequent proceedings in such cases in the United States Circuit Courts of Appeals and in the Supreme Court of the United States. It is further ordered, That these Rules shall be applicable to proceedings in all cases in such courts in which a plea of guilty shall be entered or a verdict or finding of guilt shall be rendered on or after the first day of July 1941. MARCH 31, 1941. |