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Federal Bankruptcy Judges: Weighted Case Filings as a Measure of Judges' Case-Related Workload

GAO-03-789T Published: May 22, 2003. Publicly Released: May 22, 2003.
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This testimony discusses the results of our review and assessment of bankruptcy court-weighted case filings, the workload measure the Judicial Conference first considers in assessing the need for additional bankruptcy judgeships. Weighted filings are a statistical measure of the estimated judge time that specific types of bankruptcy cases are expected to take. Congress asked us to assess whether weighted case filings are a reasonable means of measuring bankruptcy judges' case-related workload and to assess the methodology of any proposal to update the current case weights.

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BankruptcyCourtroom proceedingsJudgesBankruptcy judgesCase weightsCase filingsData collectionQuality controlCase workloadData errors