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The selected statutes establish a district-court ADR program framework, with separate provisions for arbitration and preservation of specified earlier arbitration programs. They do not themselves establish that an actual settlement exists, that a particular litigant must agree to settlement terms, or that a debt-specific settlement outcome is available. The distinction between the current arbitration provisions and the earlier programs preserved by §654(d) is consequential: a universal statement that every court-annexed arbitration requires consent, follows the same monetary limit, or has identical trial-related cost consequences would omit that preservation provision. C004–C019, C054–C062, C092–C110. uscode.house.gov+3
Currentness is qualified. The successfully opened official Code sections display laws in effect through Public Law 119-121, October 9, 2026. The OLRC general currency page displays Public Law 119-134, October 20, 2026. The examined Title 28 segment of the official 2026 classification table does not list amendments to the selected ADR sections or the examined statutory cross-references. Attempts to retrieve the selected sections through the newer version paths failed. This supports the accessible statutory text and a bounded later-amendment check; it does not establish an exhaustive session-law audit through the research date. That qualification applies throughout the findings below. C001–C003. uscode.house.gov+2
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For S001–S008, the complete operative section body and its displayed material notes were read. Their current wording derives from the section-specific rewrites in the 1998 Act, S019, approved October 30, 1998. The accessible compilation is K; no broader later-law completeness claim is made.
| Source ID | Issuer, title, complete literal HTTPS URL | Exact locator and actual read extent | Version, status, effectiveness, and limits |
|---|---|---|---|
| R060-P1-S001 | Office of the Law Revision Counsel, 28 U.S.C. §651, Authorization of alternative dispute resolution. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-121/t28/s651/ | Complete §651(a)–(f), source credit, references, amendment note, and displayed statutory notes on effectiveness, findings, model procedures, reports, rulemaking powers, and funding authorization. | K; operative text as compiled. Rewritten by S019 §3. Historical notes distinguished from the enacted instruments traced below. D. |
| R060-P1-S002 | OLRC, 28 U.S.C. §652, Jurisdiction. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-121/t28/s652/ | Complete §652(a)–(d), credit and notes, including the former monetary-limit exception and its repeal. | K; rewritten by S019 §4. The section’s heading is not treated as an independent jurisdictional grant. D. |
| R060-P1-S003 | OLRC, 28 U.S.C. §653, Neutrals. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-121/t28/s653/ | Complete §653(a)–(b), including training language and the conditional local disqualification-rule requirement; credit and amendment note. | K; rewritten by S019 §5. “Should” and “shall” are preserved separately. D. |
| R060-P1-S004 | OLRC, 28 U.S.C. §654, Arbitration. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-121/t28/s654/ | Complete §654(a)–(d), all three exclusions, consent safeguards, presumption, preservation clause, and editorial footnote concerning the stray word “section.” | K; rewritten by S019 §6. Preservation-clause interpretation and actual program qualification remain unresolved. D. |
| R060-P1-S005 | OLRC, 28 U.S.C. §655, Arbitrators. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-121/t28/s655/ | Complete §655(a)–(c), including territorial limitation on powers, certification, oath/disqualification cross-references, and immunity language. | K; rewritten by S019 §7. No actual certification or immunity determination established. D. |
| R060-P1-S006 | OLRC, 28 U.S.C. §656, Subpoenas. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-121/t28/s656/ | Complete section and notes. | K; rewritten by S019 §8; expressly incorporates Civil Rule 45 for specified arbitration-hearing subpoenas. D. |
| R060-P1-S007 | OLRC, 28 U.S.C. §657, Arbitration award and judgment. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-121/t28/s657/ | Complete §657(a), (b), and (c)(1)–(3), including both evidentiary exceptions; credit and notes. | K; rewritten by S019 §9. Filing, service proof, judgment, trial demand, and review are separate events. D. |
| R060-P1-S008 | OLRC, 28 U.S.C. §658, Compensation of arbitrators and neutrals. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-121/t28/s658/ | Complete §658(a)–(b), credit and amendment note. | K; rewritten by S019 §10. Regulations are conditions on the statutory authorizations; a current complete regulatory chain was not authenticated. D. |
| R060-P1-S009 | OLRC, 28 U.S.C. §451, Definitions. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-121/t28/s451/ | Complete definition body and displayed notes read. Reliance is limited principally to “district court,” “district court of the United States,” “district,” and “judicial district.” | K. Chapter 5 incorporation identified; no actual court/program lookup or complete territorial-court dossier. Historical definitions not substituted for the current body. D. |
| R060-P1-S010 | OLRC, 28 U.S.C. §2071, Rule-making power generally. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-121/t28/s2071/ | Complete §2071(a)–(f); material 1988 effective-date and savings notes. Other displayed historical material was not used to develop a broader procedure dossier. | K. Material 1988 amendments and savings/effective provisions also read in S020. D. |
| R060-P1-S011 | OLRC, 28 U.S.C. §1343, Civil rights and elective franchise. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-121/t28/s1343/ | Complete §1343(a)(1)–(4), (b)(1)–(2), credit and notes, including the 1979 application provision. | K. The 1979 original was separately read in S036. The substantive law incorporated through 42 U.S.C. §1985 remains outside this pass. D. |
| R060-P1-S012 | OLRC, 28 U.S.C. §453, Oaths of justices and judges. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-121/t28/s453/ | Complete oath provision, credit, amendment and effective-date notes. No oath was drafted or completed. | K. The note reports the 1990 amendment’s 90-day delayed effectiveness; its original amendment/effective instrument was not separately authenticated. D. |
| R060-P1-S013 | OLRC, 28 U.S.C. §455, Disqualification of justice, judge, or magistrate judge. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-121/t28/s455/ | Complete §455(a)–(f), every definition, financial-interest exception, waiver restriction, divestiture condition, and displayed material transition notes. | K. S020 supplies the original 1988 addition of (f). S024 was opened for the 1974 Act but has an OCR limitation affecting §3. No judicial interpretation reviewed. D. |
| R060-P1-S014 | OLRC, 28 U.S.C. §1920, Taxation of costs. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-121/t28/s1920/ | Complete six-item body and final bill-of-costs sentence; credit and amendment notes. | K. Read to identify the cross-reference in the earlier arbitration statute. No complete fees, prevailing-party, or temporal-incorporation analysis. D. |
| R060-P1-S015 | OLRC, 28 U.S.C. §2072, Rules of procedure and evidence; power to prescribe. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-121/t28/s2072/ | Complete (a)–(c); selected credit/effectiveness notes. | K. General national-rule authority; not an adjudication of any statute/rule conflict. D. |
| R060-P1-S016 | OLRC, 28 U.S.C. §2073, Rules of procedure and evidence; method of prescribing. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-121/t28/s2073/ | Complete (a)–(e), including public-meeting exceptions and the noninvalidation clause; selected notes. | K. Broader bankruptcy amendments and unrelated reporting/form notes were not developed. D. |
| R060-P1-S017 | OLRC, 28 U.S.C. §2074, Rules of procedure and evidence; submission to Congress; effective date. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-121/t28/s2074/ | Complete (a)–(b); 1988 effectiveness note. Unrelated appended historical rules legislation not relied upon. | K. Includes pending-proceeding qualification and special congressional approval requirement for evidentiary-privilege rules. D. |
| R060-P1-S018 | OLRC, 28 U.S.C. §2075, Bankruptcy rules. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-121/t28/s2075/ | Complete four-paragraph body and selected credit/amendment notes. | K. Read to preserve the distinction between civil and bankruptcy rule authority. The bankruptcy-form command and full Bankruptcy Rules are outside the selected analysis. D. |
The eight principal section bodies can be verified directly in the official pages. uscode.house.gov+7
| Source ID | Issuer, title, complete literal HTTPS URL | Exact locator, printed pages, PDF indexes, and read extent | Status, effectiveness/application, and limits |
|---|---|---|---|
| R060-P1-S019 | Congress; GPO/GovInfo, Alternative Dispute Resolution Act of 1998, Pub. L. 105-315. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-105publ315/pdf/PLAW-105publ315.pdf | Whole Act, §§1–12, printed 112 Stat. 2993–2998, PDF 0–5. Parsed text read throughout. | Approved October 30, 1998. Rewrites §§651–658; authorizes appropriations; repeals old §901(c). No separate delayed-effective provision appears in the complete Act read. No adjudication of application to a particular pending proceeding. D. |
| R060-P1-S020 | Congress; GPO/GovInfo, Judicial Improvements and Access to Justice Act, Pub. L. 100-702. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-102/pdf/STATUTE-102-Pg4642.pdf | Complete Title IX, §§901–907, printed 102 Stat. 4659–4664, PDF 17–22. Also selected §403(a)(1), printed 4650–4651, PDF 8–9; §§406–407, printed 4652, PDF 10; §1007, printed 4667, PDF 25. Not the whole 32-page Act. | Approved November 19, 1988. Title IX effective 180 days after enactment; original sunset and later changes traced separately. Title IV effective December 1, 1988. Earlier arbitration text is historical, with possible relevance through current §654(d), not a universal present rule. D. |
| R060-P1-S021 | Congress; GPO/GovInfo, Pub. L. 103-192, Act extending arbitration under Chapter 44. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-107/pdf/STATUTE-107-Pg2292.pdf Also enrolled text: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-103s1732enr/pdf/BILLS-103s1732enr.pdf | Entire enacted one-page text, 107 Stat. 2292, PDF 0, and entire one-page enrolled text, PDF 0. The enacted PDF’s replacement numeral in §1(b) was garbled; the enrolled text clearly reads 7, and S022 also quotes the seven-year wording. | Approved December 14, 1993. §1 changes the sunset and funding authorization; §2 supplies the express on-or-after-enactment restoration language. Enrolled and enacted text are grouped, not independent corroboration. D. |
| R060-P1-S022 | Congress; GPO/GovInfo, Judicial Amendments Act of 1994, Pub. L. 103-420. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-108/pdf/STATUTE-108-Pg4343.pdf | Complete §3(a)–(b) and approval line, printed 108 Stat. 4345, PDF 2. Other sections not analyzed. | Approved October 25, 1994. Changes funding authorization and repeals the old repealer, §906. A different official PDF route failed; logged below. D. |
| R060-P1-S023 | Congress; GPO/GovInfo, Pub. L. 105-53. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-105publ53/pdf/PLAW-105publ53.pdf | Complete §1, printed 111 Stat. 1173, PDF 0; approval line on printed 1174, PDF 1. Remaining sections not relied upon. | Approved October 6, 1997. §1 changes the funding authorization to each fiscal year. It does not itself supply a new general arbitration-referral rule. D. |
| R060-P1-S024 | Congress; GPO/GovInfo, Pub. L. 93-512, judicial-disqualification amendments. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-88/pdf/STATUTE-88-Pg1609.pdf | §1 body and §§2–3 material retrieved over PDF 0–1. Official Code citation is 88 Stat. 1609–1610; first-page OCR misreads the printed number, and part of §3 is garbled. Adjacent next Act not relied upon. | Approved December 5, 1974. Original-text authentication is partial for §3; the complete transition is legible in S013’s statutory note. No claim of visually verifying the scan. D. |
| R060-P1-S036 | Congress; GPO/GovInfo, Pub. L. 96-170, civil-rights amendments concerning District of Columbia law. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-93/pdf/STATUTE-93-Pg1284.pdf | Entire Act, §§1–3, printed 93 Stat. 1284, PDF 0. | Approved December 29, 1979. §3 applies the amendments to qualifying deprivations occurring after enactment. Read only to authenticate §1343(b)’s material application note. D. |
The original enactments establish the historical sequence; the Code notes alone were not substituted for that sequence. govinfo.gov+5
| Source ID | Issuer, title, complete literal HTTPS URL | Exact locator and actual read extent | Version/status/effectiveness and limits |
|---|---|---|---|
| R060-P1-S025 | House Judiciary Committee/GPO; judiciary-hosted Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. https://www.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/document/federal-rules-of-civil-procedure.pdf Official current-rules landing page: https://www.uscourts.gov/forms-rules/current-rules-practice-procedure/federal-rules-civil-procedure | Complete Rule 5, printed 8–10, PDF 26–28; Rule 6, printed 12–14, PDF 30–32; Rule 45, printed 69–73, PDF 87–91; Rules 82–83, printed 101–102, PDF 119–120; Rule 86, printed 102, PDF 120; Rule 87, printed 103, PDF 121. Selected complete Rule 26(b)(1)–(2), printed 41–42, PDF 59–60; Rule 81(a)(2), printed 100, PDF 118. Cover, pertinent credits, and selected historical-note entries read. | R; current official compilation linked by AO. Whole 142-page document not read. Rule-specific displayed credits include Rule 45’s 2013 amendment, Rule 83’s 2007 amendment, Rule 5’s 2018 amendment, and Rules 6/87’s 2023 amendment. Current body distinguished from original amendment instruments and later proposals. D. |
| R060-P1-S026 | Supreme Court, April 24, 2023 civil-rule amendment order and attachment. https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/frcv23_3eah.pdf | Complete adoption order, PDF 2; Rule 6(a)(6) amendment, PDF 3; complete Rule 87 attachment, printed 4–8, PDF 6–10. Other amended rules not analyzed. | Order adopts the changes effective December 1, 2023, for later-commenced proceedings and, insofar as just and practicable, pending proceedings. Attachment’s “Proposed Amendments” caption does not override the adoption order. D. |
| R060-P1-S027 | Judicial Conference, Report of the Proceedings, September 15, 1999. https://www.uscourts.gov/file/2130/download | Complete “Alternative Dispute Resolution” subsection, printed 53–54, PDF 14–15, including regulation, both nonmandatory principles, and accompanying commentary. Report date verified; remainder of 39-page report not analyzed. | Historical published approval of a compensation regulation and expressly nonmandatory principles. No complete current Guide or later amendment/supersession chain authenticated. D. |
| R060-P1-S028 | OLRC, Currency and Updating. https://uscode.house.gov/currency.html | Relevant complete currency explanation and displayed current-public-law statement. HTML. | Displays PL 119-134, October 20, 2026. Publisher currency metadata, not proof every target section’s newer body was accessible or that all later law was audited. D. |
| R060-P1-S029 | OLRC, Classification Tables, 119th Congress, second session. https://uscode.house.gov/classification/tables.html https://uscode.house.gov/classification/tbl119cd_2nd.html | Table instructions and complete Title 28 segment, bounded by the neighboring Title 26 and Title 29 entries, read. Not the entire all-title table or every underlying public law. | Displayed table extends through PL 119-134. No selected ADR/cross-reference amendment appears in that Title 28 segment. A classification-table check is not an exhaustive uncodified-law audit. D. |
| R060-P1-S030 | Administrative Office, Pending Rules and Forms Amendments. https://www.uscourts.gov/forms-rules/pending-rules-and-forms-amendments | Material introductory status explanation and the December 1, 2026 / December 1, 2027 listings. Draft-package bodies not read. | Status page lists Civil Rules 7.1, 26, 41, 45, 81 in the projected 2027 group. Projection is not current operative text or an authenticated final effective date. D. |
| R060-P1-S031 | Administrative Office, Proposed Amendments Published for Public Comment. https://www.uscourts.gov/forms-rules/proposed-amendments-published-public-comment | Material publication/status paragraphs identifying proposed Civil Rules 5, 5.2, 6, 55 and comment-period status. No submission/contact performed. | Proposed material, not substituted for R. Draft substance and future adoption not investigated. D. |
| R060-P1-S032 | GPO, House Document 113-29, Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CDOC-113hdoc29/pdf/CDOC-113hdoc29.pdf Attempted Supreme Court alternatives: https://www.supremecourt.gov/xmls/archive/frcv13.xml https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/frcv13.pdf | GPO PDF has 67 pages. Cover/transmittal text was readable; inserted rule/order pages appeared as offset-folio placeholders in parsed output. The XML route was unsupported; the attempted PDF route failed. | Not used to authenticate the complete 2013 amendment body or order. R’s current Rule 45 body was successfully read. No unseen scan claimed. D. |
| R060-P1-S033 | OLRC, attempted current legacy routes. https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title28-chapter44&num=0&edition=prelim https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:28%20section:651%20edition:prelim) https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title28-section651&num=0&edition=prelim https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title28/part3/chapter44&edition=prelim | No usable statutory body from these attempts; unavailable/404 results. | Failed access only. Successful ordinary official alternatives are S001–S008. D. |
| R060-P1-S034 | OLRC, attempted newer-version routes. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t28/s651/ https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t28/s652/ https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t28/s653/ https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t28/s654/ https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t28/ch44/ | No usable target body returned. Repeated §651 attempt remained inaccessible. | Failed access does not establish absent law or an unchanged statute. D. |
| R060-P1-S035 | OLRC navigation: https://uscode.house.gov/ https://uscode.house.gov/browse.html https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t28/frontmatter/ | Home redirect, title-navigation entry, and selected front-matter material used for discovery. Not a whole front-matter reading. | Navigation/front matter, not substitute evidence for §§651–658. D. |
The compensation publication’s legal-status distinction and the rules’ version distinction are material limits, not merely bibliographic details. uscourts.gov+4
The following tables are the substantive findings, with each consequential proposition assigned a claim identifier. “Current” in these tables means the operative text in the accessible compilation, subject to C001’s currentness limit.
| Claim ID | Atomic finding and material conditions | Exact authority and scope |
|---|---|---|
| R060-P1-C001 | The accessible official target sections display K; the general currency page displays a later October 20 compilation point. The examined classification segment contains no listed amendment to the selected sections. Later-law completeness through D remains partial, not established by metadata or failed access. | S001–S018; S028–S029; failures S033–S034. uscode.house.gov+2 |
| R060-P1-C002 | The selected organization is Title 28, Chapter 44, Alternative Dispute Resolution, §§651–658. Their displayed credits identify the 1998 general rewrites; S019 supplies the enacted bodies. Historical section numbers sometimes concern different subjects and cannot be read as current captions. | S001–S008; S019 §§3–10; S020 §901. |
| R060-P1-C003 | R is the currently linked official civil-rules compilation read. Proposed changes to Rules 5, 6, 45, and 81 are separately identified in official status material; their proposed text was not applied. The complete later rulemaking history was not audited. | S025 cover/current-rules page; S030–S031. uscourts.gov+2 |
| R060-P1-C004 | For Chapter 44, ADR includes a process other than adjudication by a presiding judge, with a neutral third party assisting resolution of disputed issues. Examples include early neutral evaluation, mediation, minitrial, and arbitration under §§654–658. The definition is chapter-specific. | S001 §651(a). uscode.house.gov |
| R060-P1-C005 | The program command addresses each United States district court. Section 451 defines district courts by reference to courts constituted under Chapter 5, and defines districts/judicial districts by that chapter. This is not a statement that every federal tribunal or administrative body is covered. | S001 §651(b); S009 definition paragraphs. uscode.house.gov |
| R060-P1-C006 | Section 651(b) expressly includes adversary proceedings in bankruptcy within civil actions. That wording does not by itself classify every bankruptcy matter as an adversary proceeding. Civil Rule 81(a)(2) separately limits application of Civil Rules in bankruptcy to the extent provided by Bankruptcy Rules. | S001 §651(b); S004 §654(a); S025 Rule 81(a)(2). |
| R060-P1-C007 | Chapter 44 expressly leaves Title 9 unaffected. Consequently, this pass does not replace the FAA’s separate predicates with Chapter 44 rules, or establish that a private clause or administrative ADR process is governed by this chapter. | S001 §651(e); definition in §651(a). |
| R060-P1-C008 | Arbitration referral concerns an action pending before the district court. ADR authorization does not establish that an unidentified action has subject-matter jurisdiction. Civil Rule 82 states that the Civil Rules do not extend or limit district-court jurisdiction or venue. | S004 §654(a); S025 Rule 82, complete body. Underlying jurisdictional merits held. |
| R060-P1-C009 | Each district court must authorize ADR by local rule adopted under §2071(a), and devise and implement its own program by such a rule. Arbitration authorization is expressly limited to §654. These are statutory commands to courts, not proof of any particular local rule. | S001 §651(b). |
| R060-P1-C010 | A court with an ADR program in place on October 30, 1998, the 1998 Act’s enactment date, must examine its effectiveness and adopt improvements consistent with the chapter’s provisions and purposes. | S001 §651(c); S019 approval and §3. |
| R060-P1-C011 | Each district court must designate an ADR-knowledgeable employee or judicial officer to implement, administer, oversee, and evaluate its program. That person may also recruit, screen, and train attorneys as neutrals/arbitrators; the additional role is permissive. | S001 §651(d). |
| R060-P1-C012 | The Federal Judicial Center and Administrative Office are authorized to assist establishment and improvement of programs through identification of practices and appropriate assistance. This does not prove funding, neutral availability, or an individual entitlement. | S001 §651(f). |
| R060-P1-C013 | Subject to §652(b) and (c), district courts must adopt a local rule requiring litigants in civil cases to consider ADR at an appropriate litigation stage. Consideration is not the same act as consenting to arbitration or accepting settlement terms. | S002 §652(a), first sentence. uscode.house.gov |
| R060-P1-C014 | Section 652(a) requires provision of at least one ADR process, subject to the section’s qualifications. It does not grant a choice of every listed process to every litigant. | S002 §652(a), second sentence; §652(b)–(c). |
| R060-P1-C015 | Under §652(a)’s stated compulsory-use provision, a court electing to require ADR may do so only for mediation, early neutral evaluation, and arbitration if the parties consent. Minitrial’s appearance in the availability list does not put it in that compulsory-use list. The §654(d) preservation issue must also be retained. | S002 §652(a), final sentence; S004 §654(d). |
| R060-P1-C016 | A court may exempt specific cases or categories when ADR would be inappropriate. In defining exemptions it must consult bar members, including the district’s United States Attorney. No particular exemption is established here. | S002 §652(b). |
| R060-P1-C017 | Section 652 preserves the Attorney General’s federal litigation authority, federal agencies’ authorized litigation authority, and delegations by the Attorney General. Program provisions do not themselves establish a generic representative’s authority to settle. | S002 §652(c). |
| R060-P1-C018 | Until Chapter 131 rules provide for confidentiality of these ADR processes, each district court must provide confidentiality and prohibit disclosure of confidential dispute-resolution communications by §2071(a) local rule. The statute does not itself supply a complete privilege, waiver, exception, or public-access code. | S002 §652(d); S015–S017. Whether all relevant superseding national provisions exist was not exhaustively authenticated. |
| R060-P1-C019 | The complete selected chapter contains no command that parties actually agree on settlement terms, no guaranteed negotiated outcome, and no debt-specific settlement entitlement. This is a bounded text conclusion, not a determination of every power or remedy under other law. | S001–S008 in full; S019 §2 findings are statements of potential benefits, not individual outcome guarantees. |
| Claim ID | Atomic finding and material conditions | Exact authority and scope |
|---|---|---|
| R060-P1-C020 | Rules under §2071 must be consistent with Acts of Congress and national rules under §2072; district courts may prescribe rules only under §2071. The material 1988 amendments were enacted in S020 §403(a)(1), with Title IV effective December 1, 1988. | S010 §2071(a), (f); S020 §§403(a)(1), 407. |
| R060-P1-C021 | Non-Supreme-Court rules ordinarily require appropriate public notice and opportunity to comment, with effectiveness and pending-proceeding effect set by the prescribing court. An immediate-need determination permits adoption first, but notice/comment must follow promptly. | S010 §2071(b), (e), read together. |
| R060-P1-C022 | Section 2071 provides for judicial-council or Judicial Conference modification/abrogation as specified, distribution of rules to the relevant bodies, and public availability. S020 §406 preserves previously lawful rules in force at the effective date until changed under the amended law. | S010 §2071(c)–(d); S020 §406. |
| R060-P1-C023 | Civil Rule 83(a)(1) requires public notice/comment and action by a majority of district judges. Local rules must be consistent with, but not duplicate, federal statutes and rules under §§2072/2075; conform to applicable uniform numbering; and be distributed and publicly available. Their stated effectiveness and continued force are subject to amendment/abrogation. | S025 Rule 83(a)(1), complete paragraph. |
| R060-P1-C024 | A local requirement of form may not be enforced so that a party loses a right because of a nonwillful failure to comply. This is not a general exemption from substantive conditions or all deadlines. | S025 Rule 83(a)(2). |
| R060-P1-C025 | When no controlling law governs, a judge may regulate practice consistently with federal law, national rules, and local rules. A sanction or disadvantage for violating a requirement outside those sources requires actual notice in the particular case. | S025 Rule 83(b). uscourts.gov |
| R060-P1-C026 | Section 2072 authorizes national practice, procedure, and evidence rules for district courts—including proceedings before magistrate judges—and courts of appeals. Such rules may not change substantive rights; the section also addresses conflicting laws and definition of finality for appeal. No conflict or appeal result is adjudicated here. | S015 §2072(a)–(c). |
| R060-P1-C027 | Section 2073 supplies committee procedures, ordinarily public meetings and minutes, a specified public-interest closure procedure, sufficient meeting notice, and accompanying proposed text/explanatory note/report. Failure to comply with §2073 does not itself invalidate a rule under §§2072 or 2075. | S016 §2073(a)–(e). |
| R060-P1-C028 | Under §2074, transmission is due no later than May 1 of the intended effective year; effectiveness is no earlier than December 1 that year unless law provides otherwise. Pending-proceeding application has feasibility/injustice protection. A rule creating, abolishing, or modifying evidentiary privilege needs an Act of Congress. Section 2075 separately provides bankruptcy rulemaking and analogous transmission/effectiveness timing, without authorizing modification of substantive rights. | S017 §2074(a)–(b); S018 complete operative paragraphs. |
| R060-P1-C029 | Rule 86 distinguishes later-commenced actions from pending proceedings and preserves exceptions specified by the Supreme Court or necessary to avoid infeasibility/injustice. Its 2007 paragraph preserves priority-in-time analysis for the restyling changes. S026 independently establishes the stated December 1, 2023 effectiveness and pending-proceeding qualification for its amendments. | S025 Rule 86(a)–(b); S026 adoption order ¶2. |
These authorities identify how rules may be made and applied. They do not prove the adoption, contents, validity, notice, or application of any actual district rule or judicial directive. C009, C020–C029. uscode.house.gov+4
| Claim ID | Atomic finding and material conditions | Exact authority and scope |
|---|---|---|
| R060-P1-C030 | A district court authorizing ADR must adopt appropriate processes to make neutrals available for each offered category and promulgate its own panel-selection procedures and criteria. This does not prove an actual roster, selection, or available neutral. | S003 §653(a). |
| R060-P1-C031 | Section 653(b) says a neutral should be qualified and trained for the appropriate process. It permits trained magistrate judges, private professional neutrals, and other trained persons among the possible sources. No national training duration or credential is specified there. | S003 §653(b), first two sentences. |
| R060-P1-C032 | Until Chapter 131 disqualification rules are adopted, courts must issue local disqualification rules, including where appropriate §455, other applicable law, and professional-responsibility standards. That qualified reference for neutrals differs from §655(b)’s mandatory arbitrator provision. | S003 §653(b), final sentence; S005 §655(b)(2). |
| R060-P1-C033 | Courts authorizing arbitration must establish certification standards and certify arbitrators consistently with the standards and chapter. Standards must require the §453 oath/affirmation and application of §455 disqualification rules. | S005 §655(b)(1)–(2). |
| R060-P1-C034 | Section 453 prescribes an oath/affirmation before performance of office duties, addressing impartial discharge of duties under the Constitution and laws and equal justice. Reading it does not establish that any arbitrator took it. | S012 complete body, incorporated by S005 §655(b)(1). |
| R060-P1-C035 | Section 455(a) requires disqualification when impartiality might reasonably be questioned; it is separate from the listed grounds in (b). | S013 §455(a). |
| R060-P1-C036 | Personal bias/prejudice concerning a party or personal knowledge of disputed evidentiary facts is a listed disqualification ground. | S013 §455(b)(1). |
| R060-P1-C037 | The private-practice ground covers personal service as lawyer in the matter, an associated lawyer’s service during the association, and the identified judge/lawyer having been a material witness. | S013 §455(b)(2). |
| R060-P1-C038 | The government-employment ground covers participation in that capacity as counsel, adviser, or material witness, or expression of an opinion on the particular case’s merits. | S013 §455(b)(3). |
| R060-P1-C039 | Known financial interests of the decision-maker individually/as fiduciary, spouse, or minor child residing in the household—in the subject matter or a party—and other interests substantially affected by the outcome trigger the specified ground, subject to the statutory definitions and (f). | S013 §455(b)(4), (d), (f). |
| R060-P1-C040 | The relationship ground extends to the decision-maker, spouse, persons within the third degree of relationship to either, and spouses of those persons, if they are a party or its officer/director/trustee, act as lawyer, have the specified known substantially affected interest, or are known likely material witnesses. | S013 §455(b)(5)(i)–(iv). |
| R060-P1-C041 | Section 455(c) says the judge should know personal/fiduciary financial interests and make reasonable efforts concerning the spouse’s and resident minor children’s personal financial interests. | S013 §455(c). |
| R060-P1-C042 | “Proceeding” includes pretrial, trial, appellate review, and other litigation stages. Relationship degree uses the civil-law system. “Fiduciary” includes executor, administrator, trustee, and guardian relationships. | S013 §455(d)(1)–(3). |
| R060-P1-C043 | Financial interest includes legal/equitable ownership however small or active participation in a party’s affairs. Exceptions: investment-fund securities absent participation in fund management; specified nonprofit-type offices do not create interests in securities held by the organization; mutual-policyholder/depositor/similar interests count only if their value could be substantially affected; government securities count only if their value could be substantially affected. | S013 §455(d)(4)(i)–(iv), complete exceptions. |
| R060-P1-C044 | Parties cannot waive a ground listed in §455(b). A ground arising only under (a) may be waived after full on-record disclosure of the basis. Consent to ADR is not itself that disclosure or waiver. | S013 §455(e). |
| R060-P1-C045 | Section 455(f)’s divestiture exception requires assignment of the matter, substantial judicial time, later appearance/discovery of the specified financial interest in a party, an interest other than one substantially affected by the outcome, and divestiture by the holder. It is not a general cure for every conflict. | S013 §455(f); enacted addition S020 §1007. |
| R060-P1-C046 | S013’s statutory note preserves a 1974 application restriction for trials of proceedings commenced before the Act and appellate review fully submitted before it. The opened original’s §3 was partly garbled; its complete original wording is not certified here. No actual historical proceeding is classified. | S013 1974 effective-date note; S024 §3, partial original authentication. |
| R060-P1-C047 | An arbitrator receiving an action under §654 may conduct hearings, administer oaths/affirmations, and make awards within the judicial district of the referring district court. This does not prove a referral or authorize every conceivable hearing arrangement. | S005 §655(a)(1)–(3). |
| R060-P1-C048 | Chapter 44 arbitrators perform quasi-judicial functions and receive the immunities/protections the law accords to that capacity. The statute does not define every immunity boundary or extend this sentence indiscriminately to every mediator or private provider. | S005 §655(c). |
| R060-P1-C049 | The district court must establish compensation, if any, for each arbitrator/neutral’s services in each case, subject to Judicial Conference-approved regulations. This supplies neither a national fee nor a proven payer or fee obligation. | S008 §658(a). |
| R060-P1-C050 | A court may reimburse arbitrators and other neutrals for actual transportation expenses necessarily incurred performing chapter duties, under AO Director regulations. No mileage rate, automatic reimbursement, or other expense entitlement is established. | S008 §658(b). |
| R060-P1-C051 | The 1999 Conference publication records approval of a regulation requiring a local compensation rule or policy, leaving pro bono/fee choice to the court. Its discouragement of court-funded nonstaff neutrals is expressly conditional on funding not being provided under the Act. It is not a finding about present appropriations. | S027, printed 53/PDF 14, regulation paragraph. |
| R060-P1-C052 | The same publication expressly labels two principles nonmandatory: disclose rates/limits, and require disclosure of fee/expense arrangements, with inability-to-afford relief expressed as “should.” Commentary discusses minimizing burden and defining any pro bono commitment. This does not prove a current enforceable individual waiver. | S027, printed 53–54/PDF 14–15, complete principles/commentary. |
| R060-P1-C053 | A current complete Guide provision, later compensation amendments, and current AO transportation regulations were not authenticated. Historical rates in search excerpts were not adopted. Present regulatory amounts, waivers, and reimbursement mechanics remain unresolved. | Research limit for S008 and S027; failure/read log L008. |
The complete §455 body supplies both grounds and limits. An impartiality concern, a statutory ground, a permissible waiver, and a qualifying divestiture are different legal questions; no actual one was determined. uscode.house.gov+3
| Claim ID | Atomic finding and material conditions | Exact authority and scope |
|---|---|---|
| R060-P1-C054 | Subject to §652(a)–(c) and §654(d), a district court may allow referral of a civil action, including a bankruptcy adversary proceeding, pending before it when the parties consent, provided the listed exclusions do not apply. Consent is a condition, not a command to order referral. | S004 §654(a), opening clause. |
| R060-P1-C055 | The current referral provision excludes an action based on an alleged violation of a right secured by the United States Constitution. | S004 §654(a)(1), subject to the opening qualifications, including (d). |
| R060-P1-C056 | It also excludes an action whose jurisdiction rests in whole or in part on §1343. This cannot be reduced to an amount-only test. | S004 §654(a)(2). |
| R060-P1-C057 | Section 1343(a) covers the specified §1985-conspiracy damage actions, knowing failures to prevent specified wrongs despite power to prevent, deprivations under color of state law of constitutional/equal-rights protections, and civil-rights statutory damages/equitable/other relief. Subsection (b) supplies the District of Columbia rules. The 1979 amendments apply to qualifying deprivations occurring after December 29, 1979. Classification under §1985 or other merits law is not completed. | S011 §1343(a)(1)–(4), (b); S036 §§2–3. |
| R060-P1-C058 | Section 654(a)(3) excludes referral where the relief sought consists of money damages greater than $150,000. Equality is not excluded by this monetary clause alone. The amount is not a jurisdictional minimum, debt validation, asset valuation, or affordability test. | S004 §654(a)(3). |
| R060-P1-C059 | The court may presume damages do not exceed $150,000 unless counsel certifies that they exceed it. The presumption is permissive and does not establish the true amount or all referral predicates. Handling of an unrepresented situation is not resolved by inventing a substitute certification rule. | S004 §654(c). |
| R060-P1-C060 | The current monetary clause does not contain the earlier compulsory-referral phrase excluding interest and costs. Nor does current §654(a) use the earlier route’s “only” money-damages formulation. Aggregation, mixed relief, and disputed valuation are not resolved by importing the earlier wording. | S004 §654(a)(3), contrasted with S020 former §652(a)(1)(B). |
| R060-P1-C061 | Until applicable Chapter 131 rules are adopted, local procedures must ensure freely and knowingly obtained consent and no prejudice to a party or attorney for refusing arbitration. The statute does not prescribe a universal consent form, signature block, or record here. | S004 §654(b)(1)–(2). |
| R060-P1-C062 | Section 654(d) preserves programs conducting arbitration pursuant to the referenced 1988 Title IX as amended by the specified 1997 §1. Its text contains the short locator “section … title IX”; OLRC flags the stray word. The referenced instruments were read, but the clause is not converted into proof that any actual program qualifies. | S004 §654(d); S019 §6; S020 Title IX; S023 §1. |
| R060-P1-C063 | Civil Rule 45 applies to attendance and documentary-evidence subpoenas at arbitration hearings under this chapter. This is not a general subpoena authorization for every informal ADR session. | S006 §656. |
| R060-P1-C064 | Rule 45(a) requires the specified court/action, command, and protection information. Issuance is from the court where the action is pending; issuance/signing authority is assigned to the clerk and authorized attorneys as stated. An arbitrator’s hearing powers alone are not an express grant of every Rule 45 issuance function. | S025 Rule 45(a)(1)–(3); S005 §655(a). |
| R060-P1-C065 | A subpoena commanding pretrial production/inspection requires notice and a copy to each party before service on the commanded person. The deposition recording-method provision is not a statutory requirement to record every arbitration hearing. | S025 Rule 45(a)(4), (a)(1)(B). |
| R060-P1-C066 | Subpoena service may be by a nonparty at least 18; attendance service ordinarily includes tender of one day’s attendance fees and legally allowed mileage, with the stated United States/officer/agency exception. Domestic service is nationwide; foreign service is referred to §1783. When proof is necessary, the certified statement must contain the specified service information. No fee amount or foreign-service result is established. | S025 Rule 45(b)(1)–(4), complete provision. |
| R060-P1-C067 | Attendance may be commanded within 100 miles of residence, employment, or regular in-person business; alternatively within the state under the party/party-officer condition or the distinct trial attendance/no-substantial-expense condition. Production has its own 100-mile rule; premises inspection is at the premises. Nationwide service is not unlimited travel authority. | S025 Rule 45(c)(1)–(2). |
| R060-P1-C068 | The issuer/server must reasonably avoid undue burden or expense. The compliance court must enforce that duty and impose an appropriate sanction for violation, potentially including lost earnings and reasonable attorney fees. This is not a national ADR participation charge. | S025 Rule 45(d)(1). |
| R060-P1-C069 | Production alone does not require personal appearance unless appearance is also commanded. Written objections must be served before the earlier of the compliance time or 14 days after service. Following objection, compulsion requires the prescribed court order, with protection of a nonparty/nonofficer from significant compliance expense. | S025 Rule 45(d)(2)(A)–(B). |
| R060-P1-C070 | On timely motion, the compliance court must quash or modify for insufficient reasonable compliance time, prohibited geographic reach, privileged/protected material absent exception or waiver, or undue burden. | S025 Rule 45(d)(3)(A)(i)–(iv). |
| R060-P1-C071 | Trade-secret/confidential commercial information and specified unretained-expert material permit quashing/modification. An alternative conditional order requires both otherwise unmet substantial need without undue hardship and reasonable compensation to the subpoenaed person. | S025 Rule 45(d)(3)(B)–(C), both predicates. |
| R060-P1-C072 | Rule 45(e)(1) governs organization and form of production, avoids duplicate ESI forms, and conditions inaccessible-ESI discovery on burden/cost showings, good cause, Rule 26(b)(2)(C) limits, and possible conditions. Rule 26(b)(1)–(2) supplies nonprivilege, relevance, proportionality, duplication, alternative-source, and opportunity limits. These do not validate an actual demand. | S025 Rules 45(e)(1), 26(b)(1)–(2). |
| R060-P1-C073 | A withheld privilege/protection claim must be express and described without revealing protected information. After notification of a claim over produced material, return/sequestration/destruction, nonuse/nondisclosure, retrieval efforts, possible sealed presentation, and preservation obligations apply as stated. This is not proof that an ADR communication is privileged. | S025 Rule 45(e)(2)(A)–(B). |
| R060-P1-C074 | A subpoena motion may be transferred from a nonissuing compliance court to the issuing court with the subject’s consent or exceptional circumstances; the rule separately addresses attorney appearance and enforcement transfer. | S025 Rule 45(f), complete paragraph. |
| R060-P1-C075 | Rule 45(g) permits contempt for a served person’s failure, without adequate excuse, to obey a subpoena or related order, by the specified compliance/issuing court. No actual service, breach, contempt, or sanction is established. | S025 Rule 45(g). |
| R060-P1-C076 | Current §§651–658 do not state a fixed general hearing-start deadline, a universal advance arbitration-hearing notice interval, or a universal hearing-transcript requirement. The earlier statute did contain hearing-start timing, C095. Local and other applicable procedure remains separate. | Complete S001–S008; S020 former §653(b); S025 Rule 45’s distinct deposition provision. |
| R060-P1-C077 | An award under the chapter, with proof of service on the other party by the prevailing party or plaintiff, must be filed promptly after the hearing concludes with the referring district court’s clerk. The sentence identifies the service actor but does not expressly assign the filing task to one specified actor. | S007 §657(a), first sentence. |
| R060-P1-C078 | Read with §657(c), the award is to be entered as judgment after the trial-demand period expires without a qualifying demand. Award making, service, filing, expiration, and judgment entry are distinct. Filing an award is not proof judgment has been entered. | S007 §657(a), (c)(1)–(2). |
| R060-P1-C079 | The award-based judgment so entered has ordinary civil-judgment force/effect and applicable law, with the express restriction on review in another court by appeal or otherwise. The sentence does not supply a complete issuing-court relief, collateral-review, constitutional, trial-judgment appeal, or collection dossier. | S007 §657(a), second paragraph. |
| R060-P1-C080 | The local rule required by §657(b) must keep award contents from a judge who might be assigned to the case until final judgment or other termination. The heading “Sealing” does not turn this specified restriction into universal public sealing or a complete confidentiality privilege. | S007 §657(b). |
| R060-P1-C081 | Any party may file a written trial-de-novo demand in the district court within 30 days after the award is filed under §657(a). The stated trigger is filing—not hearing completion, award announcement, receipt, or service alone. The effect of a deficient filing/service record is unresolved. | S007 §657(c)(1). |
| R060-P1-C082 | Upon the demand, the action must return to the court docket and be treated for all purposes as if it had not been referred to arbitration. That statutory restoration is distinct from appellate review of an award-based judgment. | S007 §657(c)(2). |
| R060-P1-C083 | At trial de novo, evidence of the arbitration’s existence, award nature/amount, or conduct is excluded unless it would otherwise be admissible under the Federal Rules of Evidence or the parties otherwise stipulated. Both exceptions must be retained; the complete Evidence Rules were not investigated. | S007 §657(c)(3)(A)–(B). |
| R060-P1-C084 | Where Civil Rule 5 governs, written demands/notices are among papers ordinarily served on every party. The rule has exceptions for default for failure to appear, special property-seizure circumstances, and specified numerous-defendant orders; represented-party service ordinarily goes to counsel. Its enumerated methods have distinct consent, completion, and failed-delivery conditions. | S025 Rule 5(a)–(c), complete provisions. This does not replace §657(a)’s express award-service-proof requirement. |
| R060-P1-C085 | Rule 5(d) separately regulates filing, certificates, discovery nonfiling, nonelectronic delivery, represented/unrepresented electronic filing, electronic signatures, and clerk acceptance. Filing through the electronic system has a certificate exception; other methods have the stated certificate requirements. General “reasonable time” provisions do not erase §657(c)(1)’s specific filing period. | S025 Rule 5(d)(1)–(4). |
| R060-P1-C086 | Where Rule 6(a) governs a statutory period lacking a counting method: exclude the triggering day, count intermediate weekends/holidays, include the last day subject to weekend/holiday continuation, apply the stated clerk-inaccessibility protection, and use the prescribed filing-day endpoint unless another time controls. The holiday definition includes the listed statutory holidays, presidential/congressional declarations, and the specified state-holiday rule for after-event periods. | S025 Rule 6(a)(1), (3)–(6). No calendar calculated. |
| R060-P1-C087 | Rule 6(b) states good-cause extension standards: action/request before expiry, or a post-expiry motion with excusable neglect, and enumerated restrictions. This pass does not resolve judicial interpretations concerning enlargement or relief from §657(c)(1)’s statutory period. | S025 Rule 6(b); S007 §657(c)(1). |
| R060-P1-C088 | Rule 6(d)’s additional three days concerns an act measured after service by specified Rule 5 methods—mail, leaving with the clerk, or other consented means. It does not turn §657(c)(1)’s award-filing trigger into an automatic 33-day period. | S025 Rules 6(d), 5(b)(2)(C), (D), (F); S007 §657(c)(1). |
| R060-P1-C089 | Rule 6(c)’s general written-motion/hearing-notice and affidavit periods have ex parte, different-rule, court-order, and specified affidavit qualifications. They are not, merely because a proceeding is called a hearing, a universal arbitration-hearing notice period. | S025 Rule 6(c)(1)–(2), complete provision. |
| R060-P1-C090 | Rule 87 requires a qualifying Judicial Conference emergency declaration identifying affected courts and a limited period; its emergency extension provision concerns listed posttrial motions. It does not expressly identify a §657 trial-de-novo demand. No actual emergency declaration or resulting extension is established. | S025 Rule 87(a)–(c); S026 complete Rule 87 attachment. |
| R060-P1-C091 | Current §657 contains no express general cost penalty for demanding trial de novo. That textual absence does not establish cost-free litigation or eliminate the possible relevance of earlier preserved-program provisions or other unexamined costs law. | Complete S007; S004 §654(d); C097–C100 below. |
The principal arbitration predicates, judgment consequences, and demand period are in the statute itself. The national-rule discussion preserves the conditions of expressly incorporated or narrowly necessary procedure without supplying an actual filing instruction. uscode.house.gov+8
Every proposition in this table about a former Code section is historical. Present application requires the §654(d) preservation predicate and resolution of any relevant interaction with the 1998 Act. The table does not classify a real program.
| Claim ID | Atomic historical or transition finding | Exact authority and present limit |
|---|---|---|
| R060-P1-C092 | Former §651 limited authorization to the former §658 court categories. The enumerated category could use former §652(a); the ten additional Judicial Conference-approved districts could use only the consent route. The compulsory route required only money damages, no more than $100,000 or a lower court-set amount, excluding interest and costs; its statutory presumption used $100,000 unless counsel certified more. | S020 §901(a), former §§651(a), 652(a)(1)(B), (a)(2), 658. Historical; no actual court-category lookup. |
| R060-P1-C093 | Former §652(a)(1)(A) separately allowed consent referral of civil actions, including bankruptcy adversary proceedings. Former §652(b)’s constitutional-right and §1343 restrictions were restrictions on referral without consent under (a)(1)(B), unlike the wording of current §654(a)’s exclusions. | S020 former §652(a)–(b); current comparison S004. |
| R060-P1-C094 | Former §652(c) required local procedures for exemption, on the court’s own initiative or party motion, when arbitration objectives would not be realized because of complex/novel legal issues, legal issues predominating over factual issues, or other good cause. Former (d) required freely/knowingly obtained consent and no prejudice for refusal. | S020 former §652(c)–(d). |
| R060-P1-C095 | Former §653(b) required a court-specified hearing start no later than 180 days after answer filing, but, absent consent, not until 30 days after disposition of the listed motions filed within a court-specified period. The listed motions concern dismissal, judgment on pleadings, necessary-party joinder, and summary judgment. Both periods could be modified for good cause. | S020 former §653(b), complete paragraph. Not a current universal hearing deadline. |
| R060-P1-C096 | Former §§654–655 used the award/service-proof filing and 30-day written-demand structure, but also expressly preserved otherwise-existing jury rights and a calendar position no later than otherwise available. Former award nondisclosure included exceptions concerning cost/fee determinations and the statutory report; former §654(c) allowed a local rule including §1920 costs in an award. | S020 former §654(a)–(c), §655(a)–(c). Do not substitute these former qualifications silently into current §657. |
| R060-P1-C097 | Former §655(d) allowed a local rule taxing paid arbitrator fees against a trial-demanding party and an advance deposit equal to those fees, with the stated United States/agency/officer and in-forma-pauperis deposit exceptions. Fees could not be taxed, and the deposit had to be returned, if the demanding party obtained a more favorable final judgment or the demand was for good cause. Retained amounts went to Treasury. A rule under (d) had to preserve (d)(4)’s limitation on other penalties. | S020 former §655(d)(1)–(4), all conditions. Separate (e) remains C098; no actual rule, deposit, or assessment established. |
| R060-P1-C098 | Former §655(e), for arbitration conducted by consent, separately permitted §1920 costs and reasonable attorney fees against the trial-demanding party only if that party failed to obtain a judgment, excluding interest/costs, substantially more favorable than the award and the court found bad faith in seeking trial de novo. No percentage definition of “substantially” is supplied. | S020 former §655(e)(1)–(2). Both predicates required. |
| R060-P1-C099 | Current §1920 lists clerk/marshal fees; necessary printed/electronic transcripts; printing/witness fees; necessary exemplification/copies; §1923 docket fees; and specified court-appointed expert/interpreter services. A bill of costs is included in judgment/decree upon allowance. This is not a complete fee-shifting entitlement or a conclusion about temporal incorporation into an earlier program. | S014 complete body; references in S020 former §§654(c), 655(e). |
| R060-P1-C100 | Former §656 required certification, oath, and §455 disqualification, and separately treated arbitrators as independent contractors subject to 18 U.S.C. §§201–211 to the stated special-government-employee extent. Former §657 permitted compensation subject to Judicial Conference limits and transportation reimbursement under AO regulations. The criminal-law cross-reference and present application need a separate dossier. | S020 former §§656–657. No criminal, tax, employment, or immunity result inferred. |
| R060-P1-C101 | Original §902 authorized model rules without permitting them to supersede statute; §904 preserved judicial rulemaking powers. Section 903 required annual AO statistical reporting and a five-year FJC report addressing program descriptions, satisfaction, program features, hearing costs, and recommendations. These are institutional provisions, not proof of actual program performance. | S020 §§902–904; corresponding S001 notes. |
| R060-P1-C102 | Original Title IX became effective 180 days after November 19, 1988. Original §906 provided repeal five years after enactment, preserving the chapter through final disposition for actions referred before repeal. Those are different triggers from “five years after effectiveness.” The repealer was subsequently changed and repealed. | S020 §§906–907; S021–S022. |
| R060-P1-C103 | The 1993 Act replaced the original sunset formula with December 31, 1994, changed four succeeding funding years to seven, and expressly made Chapter 44 effective on and after December 14, 1993 as if the former repealer had not repealed it. No unexamined interim judicial consequence is inferred. | S021 §§1–2; enacted approval; enrolled text resolves the numeral. |
| R060-P1-C104 | The 1994 Act changed the funding authorization to fiscal years 1994–1997, removed the spending cutoff associated with repeal, and repealed §906 and its table item. Therefore the old repealer cannot be quoted as a current general sunset. | S022 §3(a)–(b). |
| R060-P1-C105 | The 1997 provision referenced by current §654(d) changed former §905’s funding authorization from fiscal years 1994–1997 to each fiscal year. Its actual body is an appropriations-authorization amendment, not a freestanding new consent or referral provision. | S023 §1; S004 §654(d). |
| R060-P1-C106 | The complete 1998 Act rewrote all eight sections and expressly repealed old §901(c), the provision allowing specified preexisting local monetary limits up to $150,000. The original higher-limit exception is therefore not presented as a free-standing current authorization. The Act read contains no separate delayed-effective clause. | S019 §§3–10, 12(a)–(b), approval; S020 §901(c). |
| R060-P1-C107 | The 1998 Act authorizes necessary appropriations for each fiscal year. The earlier authorization, as amended, addresses allocation of appropriated funds and availability until expended. Authorization is not an appropriation, an actual allocation, an individual fee payment, or an entitlement to free ADR. | S019 §11; S020 §905 as amended by S021–S023; S001 funding notes. |
| R060-P1-C108 | Section 651(c)’s explicit enactment-date test and §654(d)’s reference to programs under specified legislation are different predicates. Section 654(d) states no numerical expiration period. Whether a program qualifies, and how each former provision interacts with the rewrite and express repeal, remain questions requiring additional authority beyond a program label. | S001 §651(c); S004 §654(d); S019 §12(a). |
| R060-P1-C109 | The preserved-program interaction, disputed monetary characterization, statutory-period enlargement, deficient filing/service effects, immunity boundaries, and broader review/remedies were not resolved through judicial authority. No case-law consensus or absence of a remedy is asserted. | Scope limit tied to C045–C048, C060–C062, C077–C091, C092–C108. |
| R060-P1-C110 | This statutory investigation supplies no actual jurisdiction, local duty, consent, qualification, conflict, fee, award, judgment, demand, debt validity, collection right, or settlement suitability finding. Broader FAA, state law, bankruptcy merits, remedies, and actual program facts remain held. | Scope of S001–S008 and the expressly limited cross-reference readings. |
The current preservation clause and the original enactments support a conditional historical comparison. They do not justify treating the entire former chapter as universally operative today. uscode.house.gov+11
| Mechanism | Actor and cumulative predicate | Record or process | Stated consequence/discretion | Timing and principal limits | Claims/sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Court establishment of ADR | District court; Chapter 44 scope; valid rulemaking authority | Local rule and program | Court must authorize, devise, and implement; arbitration restricted to §654 | No individual award or settlement guarantee | C005–C012; S001, S009–S010 |
| Consideration of ADR | Litigants covered by a valid local rule; §652 qualifications | Consideration at an appropriate litigation stage | Consideration required through local rule | Exemptions and federal litigation-authority savings remain | C013–C017; S002 |
| Required use of mediation/ENE | Court elects to require a listed process in covered cases | Participation in the authorized process | Use may be required under the stated provision | No statutory obligation to accept settlement terms | C015, C019; S002 |
| Current §654 arbitration referral | Pending civil action; consent; no applicable exclusion; §652 and §654(d) qualifications | Referral under an authorized program | Court may allow referral; arbitrator may exercise specified powers | Current monetary/category tests; local consent procedures | C054–C062; S004–S005 |
| Neutral selection/certification | Program category and applicable selection standards; additional arbitrator standards | Local selection procedures; certification/oath where required | Availability/selection process required; no actual qualification proven | General-neutral “should” language differs from arbitrator certification requirements | C030–C048; S003, S005, S012–S013 |
| Arbitration hearing subpoena | Chapter arbitration hearing; Rule 45 issuance, notice, service, geography, and protections | Subpoena and necessary proof/order | Attendance/production may be compelled within the rule’s conditions | Service reach differs from compliance reach; objections/protections apply | C063–C075; S006, S025 |
| Award filing | Award under chapter; required service proof; hearing concluded | Award plus proof filed with referring clerk | Creates the statutory filing event | “Promptly”; not yet proof of judgment entry | C077; S007 |
| Award-based judgment | Qualifying award filing; trial-demand period expired without qualifying demand | Judgment entry | Civil-judgment force/effect, with specified review restriction | No automatic collection or complete postjudgment-remedy conclusion | C078–C080; S007 |
| Trial de novo | Party’s qualifying written demand after §657(a) filing | Filed written demand; applicable service procedure | Action restored and treated as unreferred | Statutory 30-day period; evidentiary exceptions; extension questions held | C081–C090; S007, S025 |
| Earlier preserved arbitration program | Program actually satisfying §654(d)’s legislative predicate | Earlier statutory/local framework as legally applicable | Potentially different compulsory-referral and cost provisions | Present application and interaction with repeal must be established | C092–C108; S004, S020–S023 |
| Private contractual arbitration or administrative ADR | Separate governing authority would be necessary | Unexamined clause, statute, or process | No result established in this pass | Title 9 expressly unaffected; other frameworks held | C007, C019, C110; S001 |
No row establishes an actual litigant’s duty or recommends electing, refusing, or demanding a process.
This register records legal quantities and event relationships. It supplies no actual amount, date, distance, family relationship, fee, or calculation. Incidental quantities in unrelated neighboring provisions are not adopted as claims.
| Measurement ID | Source-stated quantity/unit and boundary | Trigger, actor, and exceptions | Read bound and claim link |
|---|---|---|---|
| R060-P1-M001 | At least one ADR process: inclusive minimum of one process, not one guaranteed preferred process | District-court provision duty; §652 qualifications/exemptions | S002 §652(a)–(c); C014 |
| R060-P1-M002 | $150,000 money damages; exclusion is strictly greater than, so equality alone does not trigger (a)(3) | Relief sought in current §654 referral; all other predicates remain | S004 §654(a)(3); C054–C060 |
| R060-P1-M003 | Presumption of damages not in excess of $150,000 | Court may presume unless counsel certifies excess; not a valuation adjudication | S004 §654(c); C059 |
| R060-P1-M004 | 30 days after award filing; written demand within the period | Any party; filing under §657(a), not service alone; counting/application qualifications remain | S007 §657(c)(1); C081, C086–C090 |
| R060-P1-M005 | Promptly after hearing conclusion; no fixed day count in §657(a) | Award and proof of specified service filed with referring clerk; filer not expressly assigned by that sentence | S007 §657(a); C077 |
| R060-P1-M006 | Until final judgment or other termination | Court’s local rule must prevent award disclosure to a potentially assigned judge | S007 §657(b); C080 |
| R060-P1-M007 | Appropriate stage; nonnumeric | Consideration duty through local rule, subject to exemptions/savings | S002 §652(a)–(c); C013–C017 |
| R060-P1-M008 | Until applicable Chapter 131 rules are adopted; event-based | Separate confidentiality, disqualification, and consent-procedure provisions; no universal adoption date found | S002 §652(d), S003 §653(b), S004 §654(b); C018, C032, C061 |
| R060-P1-M009 | Within third degree of relationship, using civil-law calculation | Specified relatives/spouses plus one of the listed roles/interests/witness conditions | S013 §455(b)(5), (d)(2); C040, C042 |
| R060-P1-M010 | Financial interest however small; no dollar safe harbor stated | Subject to all four §455(d)(4) exceptions and applicable (f) conditions | S013 §455(d)(4); C043–C045 |
| R060-P1-M011 | Before office duties; after assignment/substantial time for the distinct divestiture provision | Oath timing and §455(f) timing are separate; no actual performance/assignment shown | S012 §453; S013 §455(f); C034, C045 |
| R060-P1-M012 | Server at least 18 years; inclusive minimum | Rule 45 server must also be a nonparty | S025 Rule 45(b)(1); C066 |
| R060-P1-M013 | Fees for one day’s attendance, plus mileage allowed by law; amount unestablished | Attendance subpoena; specified United States/officer/agency tender exception | S025 Rule 45(b)(1); C066 |
| R060-P1-M014 | Within 100 miles; inclusive geographic boundary in the rule | Attendance/production anchors differ; separate within-state attendance alternatives and premises rule remain | S025 Rule 45(c); C067 |
| R060-P1-M015 | Objection before the earlier of compliance time or 14 days after service | Person commanded to produce/permit inspection; service of written objection; subsequent compulsion conditions | S025 Rule 45(d)(2)(B); C069 |
| R060-P1-M016 | Before service of specified pretrial production/inspection subpoena | Notice and copy to each party | S025 Rule 45(a)(4); C065 |
| R060-P1-M017 | Rule 6 day counting: exclude trigger day; count intermediate days; qualified inclusion of last day | Weekend/holiday continuation; clerk inaccessibility; contrary endpoint; court time zone for electronic filing | S025 Rule 6(a)(1), (3)–(6); C086 |
| R060-P1-M018 | Rule 6 hour counting: immediate start, every hour, qualified continuation when ending on weekend/holiday | Relevant only to a period stated in hours; §657 states days | S025 Rule 6(a)(2)–(3); read but no hour-based ADR deadline asserted |
| R060-P1-M019 | Three additional days, only for specified service-triggered acts/methods | Rule 6(d), after otherwise computed expiration; no automatic addition to award-filing trigger | S025 Rule 6(d); C088 |
| R060-P1-M020 | General motion notice at least 14 days; opposing affidavit ordinarily at least seven days | Rule 6(c)’s ex parte/different-rule/order exceptions; supporting affidavit with motion; Rule 59(c)/court-permission qualification | S025 Rule 6(c); C089. Not a universal arbitration-hearing interval |
| R060-P1-M021 | Emergency declaration no more than 90 days per declaration | Judicial Conference findings/designation; early termination and additional declarations permitted | S025 Rule 87(a)–(b); C090 |
| R060-P1-M022 | Emergency extension no more than 30 days after order entry | Listed posttrial motions under Rule 87(c)(2), not an express §657 demand provision; no declaration/order established | S025 Rule 87(c)(2); S026; C090 |
| R060-P1-M023 | $100,000 or lower court-set amount, inclusive ceiling, excluding interest/costs | Former compulsory route; only money damages; designated statutory court category and exceptions | S020 former §652(a)(1)(B); C092 |
| R060-P1-M024 | Former presumption not over $100,000 | Court presumption unless counsel certifies more; historical provision | S020 former §652(a)(2); C092 |
| R060-P1-M025 | Former higher local limit not more than $150,000 | Local rule in effect November 19, 1988, and specified statutory category; §901(c) repealed in 1998 | S020 §901(c); S019 §12(a); C106 |
| R060-P1-M026 | Former hearing start no later than 180 days after answer filing | Court-specified start; stated motion/consent qualifications; good-cause modification | S020 former §653(b); C095 |
| R060-P1-M027 | Former hearing ordinarily not before 30 days after disposition of specified timely motions | Absence of party consent; court-defined motion-filing window; good-cause modification | S020 former §653(b); C095 |
| R060-P1-M028 | Former trial demand within 30 days after award filing | Written party demand; historic provisions and preservation predicate | S020 former §655(a); C096 |
| R060-P1-M029 | Former deposit equal to paid arbitrator fees; no fee amount supplied | Local rule; statutory deposit exceptions; refund/no-tax conditions | S020 former §655(d); C097 |
| R060-P1-M030 | “More favorable” versus “substantially more favorable”: distinct qualitative comparisons, no percentage supplied | Former (d) refund exception versus former (e)’s separate bad-faith cost/fee provision; (e) excludes interest/costs from judgment comparison | S020 former §655(d)–(e); C097–C098 |
| R060-P1-M031 | Ten additional districts in former authorization structure | Judicial Conference approval and notice to FJC/public; no roster examined | S020 former §658(2); C092 |
| R060-P1-M032 | Title IX effectiveness 180 days after enactment; original repeal five years after enactment | Enactment November 19, 1988; pre-repeal referrals had final-disposition preservation; later legislation changes the repeal | S020 §§906–907; C102 |
| R060-P1-M033 | Historical sunset replaced with December 31, 1994; restoration on/after December 14, 1993 | S021 express language; repealer subsequently removed by S022 | S021 §§1(a), 2; S022 §3(b); C103–C104 |
| R060-P1-M034 | Original authorization: fiscal year ending September 30, 1989, plus four, later seven, succeeding fiscal years; then 1994–1997; then each fiscal year | Institutional funding authorization only; no appropriation or actual allocation inferred | S020 §905; S021 §1(b); S022 §3(a); S023 §1; C103–C107 |
| R060-P1-M035 | AO report annual; FJC report not later than five years after enactment | Institutional reporting duties, not litigant deadlines or proof reports were completed | S020 §903; C101 |
| R060-P1-M036 | Programs in place on October 30, 1998 | §651(c) effectiveness review/improvement duty; not automatically §654(d)’s entire test | S001 §651(c); S019; C010, C108 |
| R060-P1-M037 | National rule transmission no later than May 1; effectiveness no earlier than December 1 that year | Supreme Court; unless law provides otherwise; pending-case and privilege qualifications in §2074 | S017–S018; C028 |
| R060-P1-M038 | Compensation per case, amount if any; transportation base is actual necessarily incurred expense | Court action subject to the specified regulations; no rate/amount established | S008 §658(a)–(b); C049–C053 |
| R060-P1-M039 | 1974 note: proceedings commenced/fully submitted before December 5, 1974; 1979 amendments: qualifying deprivations after December 29, 1979 | Different application tests. The former’s original §3 OCR remains incomplete; the latter’s original was read | S013/S024; S036 §3; C046, C057 |
| R060-P1-M040 | §453 note states 90 days after December 1, 1990 | Compiler’s effective-date note; original amendment/effective instrument not separately authenticated; no date computed | S012 note; source-history gap |
| R060-P1-M041 | Rule 5 uses reasonable time and specified completion events, rather than a universal number of days | Filing/certificates, mail, electronic sending/filing, and other consented delivery have different conditions | S025 Rule 5(b), (d); C084–C085 |
No symbolic financial or calendar illustration is supplied. The statutory route, implementing rules, qualifying event, and any actual counting facts remain unknown.
This is the branch-level portion of the coverage register. “Answered” refers to the bounded public-law rule; actual predicates remain unresolved or held. The next inquiries are generic public-law inquiries, not requests to obtain a real record or inspect a local program.
| Branch ID and status | Supported conditional rule; cumulative predicates; claim/source links | Missing predicate or authority | Adverse inference to avoid | Next permissible generic public-law inquiry |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| R060-P1-B001 — Governing court/proceeding unknown. Public rule answered; classification held. | Chapter 44 addresses district courts and civil actions, expressly including bankruptcy adversary proceedings. C005–C006; S001, S009, S025 Rule 81(a)(2). | Statutory court category and proceeding classification. | Every federal forum or bankruptcy matter is covered. | Examine only generic statutory/rule definitions distinguishing an adversary proceeding from other bankruptcy matters if that classification becomes necessary. |
| B002 — Underlying federal jurisdiction unknown. Partial. | A referral concerns an action pending before the court; Rule 82 does not enlarge jurisdiction. C008, C056–C057; S004, S011, S025. | Applicable jurisdictional basis and its predicates. | ADR availability creates federal jurisdiction over a debt dispute. | A separately bounded inquiry could examine the public jurisdictional statute relevant to a generic category; no actual claim classification follows here. |
| B003 — Local implementing rule unexamined. National authority answered; local contents excluded. | Program/local-rule duties operate under §2071 and Rule 83. C009, C020–C025; S001, S010, S025. | Valid adoption, text, effective date, and scope of any implementing rule. | The federal command proves a particular local requirement. | Determine from national public rulemaking authority what conditions govern adoption and amendment; retain district-specific text as held. |
| B004 — Consideration/participation versus settlement. Answered. | Consideration and authorized required use do not establish agreement on terms. C013–C019; S002. | Any separate source governing agreement formation/authority. | Attendance or consideration equals settlement consent. | Ask whether any later generic national enactment expressly adds a settlement-outcome duty; do not investigate actual assent. |
| B005 — Arbitration consent absent. Rule answered; actual consent held. | Current referral requires consent and safeguards, subject to §654(d). C054, C061–C062; S004. | Applicable statutory route and legally sufficient consent procedure/evidence. | Silence, attendance, or consent to mediation proves arbitration consent; or every preserved program necessarily requires consent. | Examine generic national instruments implementing §654(b), while keeping actual consent records excluded. |
| B006 — Facilitation versus adjudicative effect. Answered within text. | ADR definition includes facilitation; Chapter 44’s award/judgment mechanism is specifically arbitration. C004, C019, C077–C083; S001, S007. | Separate law governing any resulting agreement. | A mediated discussion automatically creates an award or judgment. | Identify the generic statutory boundary between an agreement and a Chapter 44 award without analyzing an actual agreement. |
| B007 — Covered/excluded claim category unknown. Rule answered; classification held. | Current exclusions separately address constitutional-right allegations and jurisdiction wholly/partly under §1343. C055–C057; S004, S011, S036. | Legal characterization and jurisdictional basis. | A low amount defeats those exclusions, or every civil-rights label has identical treatment. | Read any indispensable generic incorporated civil-rights text only if a further classification component is authorized. |
| B008 — Monetary boundary unknown. Rule answered; measurement unresolved. | Current exclusion is money damages greater than $150,000; equality alone does not trigger it. C058–C060; S004; M002–M003. | Character of relief, valuation, aggregation, interest/cost treatment, and certification predicate. | Cap equals total debt, affordability, or a jurisdictional minimum; old exclusions of interest/costs automatically apply. | Check for a later public enactment or national rule expressly defining valuation/aggregation under §654(a)(3). Judicial reconciliation remains held. |
| B009 — Preserved earlier program unknown. Partial. | §654(d) preserves a program satisfying the referenced legislative predicate. Earlier compulsory/consent structures differ. C062, C092–C108; S004, S019–S023. | Legal qualification under preservation clause and interaction with later changes. | A program’s age or “arbitration” label establishes grandfathering. | Examine only later generic legislation or rulemaking addressing §654(d); no actual program or court lookup. |
| B010 — Neutral qualification unknown. Public standard answered; actual qualification held. | Local selection processes, qualified/trained “should” language, and mandatory arbitrator certification are distinct. C030–C034; S003, S005, S012. | Applicable standards and actual satisfaction. | Availability, professional title, or claimed experience proves statutory qualification. | Authenticate any national generic training/certification standard implementing these sections. |
| B011 — Conflict/waiver unknown. Public provisions answered; application held. | §455 includes grounds, definitions, exceptions, nonwaivable grounds, limited waiver, and conditional divestiture. C035–C046; S013, S020, S024. | Legally relevant relationship/interest/knowledge/timing and applicable local neutral standard. | Any consent cures every conflict; any divestiture always cures disqualification. | Resolve the original §3 OCR gap or examine a later generic statutory amendment; no person/interest inquiry. |
| B012 — Compensation/costs unknown. Partial. | Compensation is conditional on regulations; transportation reimbursement is permissive. Historical principles are expressly nonmandatory. C049–C053, C091, C097–C100; S008, S020, S027. | Current national regulations, applicable cost authority, and any authorized local rule. | ADR is always free; a historical rate is a national current fee; inability to pay automatically proves a waiver. | Authenticate the current public Guide compensation regulation and AO transportation regulations, if publicly accessible. |
| B013 — Confidentiality/award access unknown. Public text answered; complete regime unresolved. | Confidentiality-rule duty, restricted judge access, and trial-evidence exceptions are different provisions. C018, C080, C083; S002, S007. | Applicable national/local rules and evidentiary conditions. | All communications are privileged against all persons; every award is publicly sealed forever. | Check generic Chapter 131 rulemaking for implementing confidentiality rules; full privilege merits remain held. |
| B014 — Notice/service predicates absent. Public rules answered; events held. | Award-service proof, Rule 5 demand service where applicable, and Rule 45 subpoena notice/service have different actors and conditions. C065–C066, C077, C084–C085; S007, S025. | Applicable procedure, qualifying service/filing event, recipient category, and method. | One notice satisfies all service obligations, or service alone starts §657’s filing-triggered period. | Examine generic national provisions addressing the particular kind of paper, without preparing or serving one. |
| B015 — Hearing timing/record unknown. Partial. | Current chapter supplies no universal hearing-start/transcript rule; earlier §653(b) has qualified timing. C047, C063–C076, C095; S005–S006, S020, S025. | Current versus preserved route, applicable procedural authority, and event predicates. | The historical 180-day rule or a deposition recording provision applies to every ADR session. | Check later generic statutes/rules for an express arbitration-hearing timing or record requirement. |
| B016 — Award filed versus judgment entered. Answered; actual event held. | Award filing and judgment entry are separate; entry follows the statutory trial-demand opportunity. C077–C081; S007. | Qualifying award/service-proof filing, demand status, and entry event. | An award announcement is already a collectible judgment. | Examine generic statutory text addressing the legal effect of deficient award filing; actual records remain excluded. |
| B017 — Trial-demand timing/exceptions unknown. Partial. | Written demand within 30 days after qualifying award filing; Rule 6 distinctions apply only within their scope. C081, C086–C090; S007, S025–S026. | Trigger validity, governing procedural system, counting facts, and authority concerning enlargement. | Automatic 33 days; a court extension is guaranteed; receipt is the statutory trigger. | Look for an express later statute/national rule addressing §657(c)(1) extension or defective-filing effects; do not calculate a calendar. |
| B018 — Consequences/cost allocation of demand. Public comparison answered; application held. | Current restoration/evidence rules differ from historical fee/deposit and bad-faith provisions. C082–C083, C091, C096–C100; S007, S014, S020. | Applicable route, legally effective cost rule, favorability/good-cause/bad-faith predicates. | Demand is always costless, or failure to improve an award always generates attorney fees. | Determine whether later generic legislation expressly preserves or changes the former cost provisions. |
| B019 — Cross-reference/history authentication. Partial. | Referenced 1988/1993/1994/1997/1998 instruments were read; §654(d)’s stray word and interaction issues remain visible. C062, C102–C108; S019–S023. | Judicial reconciliation and complete later history. | Editorial correction alone settles substantive preservation; repealed §901(c) is current authority. | Check later enacted text expressly clarifying §654(d) or §12(a), without searching opinions/cases. |
| B020 — Standing-order authority unknown. National rule answered; actual directive excluded. | Rule 83(b) permits consistent practice regulation, with actual-notice protection for otherwise unstated requirements. C020–C025; S010, S025. | Nature, authority, consistency, and actual notice of any directive. | A generic reference to a standing order proves its existence, validity, or applicability. | Examine generic national rules distinguishing local rules from judge-specific practice regulation. |
| B021 — Enforceability/collection unknown. Statutory effect answered; remedies held. | §657(a) specifies force/effect and a review restriction for the judgment so entered. C078–C079, C109–C110; S007. | Actual entry and separate enforcement/remedy predicates. | Statutory judgment language proves payment, executable assets, or lack of every possible remedy. | A separately authorized generic judgment-enforcement component would be required; no collection inquiry in this pass. |
| B022 — Latest original/currentness gap. Partial. | K bodies are accessible; newer paths failed; table check is bounded. Proposed rule material is not operative. C001–C003; S025, S028–S034. | Complete later session-law/rulemaking chain and some original amendment bodies. | Host timestamp or failed access proves law is unchanged or absent. | Recheck official current section bodies and public-law classification/enactment materials through the later check date. |
| B023 — Private FAA/administrative/other forum. Excluded with reason. | Chapter 44 definition and Title 9 savings clause do not establish another process’s law. C004, C007, C110; S001. | Separate governing public law and permitted scope. | Chapter 44 demand/review rules govern every arbitration clause or agency proceeding. | Separate authorization would be needed for the broader FAA or administrative ADR framework. |
| B024 — Funding versus entitlement. Answered; actual funding excluded. | Program support and appropriations authorization do not prove appropriations, allocation, free services, or settlement payment. C012, C049–C053, C107; S001, S008, S019–S023, S027. | Actual appropriation and applicable generic compensation authority; award/program facts held. | “Authorized” means funded or payable to a litigant. | Examine a public appropriations provision only if needed for a consequential generic funding claim; no grantee/program/award search. |
Every cell in the four entry columns below is intentionally blank. The field labels are generic analytical categories, not completed facts, legal conclusions, or operative language.
| Field | Evidence entry | Authority entry | Analysis entry | Result entry |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Source issuer and title | ||||
| Literal public source URL | ||||
| Exact section/rule/clause | ||||
| Printed page | ||||
| Zero-based PDF index | ||||
| Compilation/version | ||||
| Enactment/adoption date | ||||
| Effective/application trigger | ||||
| Actual access date and timezone | ||||
| Operative/historical/proposed/unknown status | ||||
| Complete versus selected read bounds | ||||
| Original-access failure | ||||
| Ordinary official alternate | ||||
| Statutory court category | ||||
| Statutory proceeding category | ||||
| Underlying jurisdictional authority | ||||
| Bankruptcy/adversary boundary | ||||
| Implementing-rule authority | ||||
| Rule-adoption/effectiveness condition | ||||
| Exemption or exclusion | ||||
| Consideration duty | ||||
| Participation duty | ||||
| Process category | ||||
| Consent predicate | ||||
| Consent safeguard | ||||
| Current versus preserved statutory route | ||||
| Monetary characterization/boundary | ||||
| Neutral-selection standard | ||||
| Training/qualification standard | ||||
| Arbitrator certification/oath requirement | ||||
| Disqualification ground | ||||
| Definition/exception/waiver/divestiture | ||||
| Compensation authority | ||||
| Transportation-reimbursement authority | ||||
| Cost/deposit/fee-shifting authority | ||||
| Confidentiality authority | ||||
| Award-access limitation | ||||
| Hearing/subpoena authority | ||||
| Notice/service actor and condition | ||||
| Hearing-record requirement | ||||
| Award-making condition | ||||
| Award-filing and service-proof condition | ||||
| Judgment-entry condition | ||||
| Trial-demand form and actor | ||||
| Trial-demand trigger and unit | ||||
| Counting/extension exception | ||||
| Trial-restoration/evidence consequence | ||||
| Historical transition/savings condition | ||||
| Review/remedy question unresolved | ||||
| Local-rule/standing-order boundary | ||||
| Other-law boundary | ||||
| Missing public authority | ||||
| Missing factual predicate | ||||
| Adverse inference to avoid | ||||
| Next permissible generic public-law inquiry |
The branch table above supplies individual coverage for B001–B024. This table maps every numbered question and its material subquestions to the findings, sources, and remaining limits.
| Question/material subquestion | Status | Findings and claim/source/branch links | Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 — Complete §§651–658 bodies | Answered as accessible official text | C002, C004–C019, C030–C033, C047–C050, C054–C083; S001–S008; B001–B018 | No missing body among the eight accessible sections. Later currentness remains separately qualified. |
| 1 — Issuer, organization, compilation, check date | Answered | C001–C003; source register; S028–S035 | No unseen UI/model provenance asserted. |
| 1 — Latest operative chain through access date | Partial | C001; S028–S029, S033–S034; B022 | Reopen newer official bodies and examine later public-law materials. Classification metadata is not exhaustive proof. |
| 1 — Definition of ADR | Answered | C004, C007; S001 §651(a), (e); B006, B023 | Other statutes’ ADR definitions remain outside scope. |
| 1 — Courts, civil actions, bankruptcy/adversary scope | Answered at statutory level; classification unresolved | C005–C008; S001, S004, S009, S025 Rule 81(a)(2); B001–B002 | No actual court or proceeding classification. Further inquiry limited to generic definitions. |
| 1 — Program versus settlement/private arbitration/administrative ADR/adjudication | Answered as boundary | C004, C007, C019, C077–C083; B006, B023 | Other regimes and agreement formation remain held. |
| 2 — Authorization/development/implementation/local rules | Answered | C009–C012, C020–C029; S001, S010, S015–S018, S025–S026; B003, B020 | No district-specific implementation examined. |
| 2 — Administration/designation | Answered | C011–C012; S001 §651(d)–(f) | No designated person, actual staffing, or performance inquiry. |
| 2 — Consideration versus participation | Answered | C013–C017; S002; B004–B005 | Actual rule scope and exemptions held. |
| 2 — Exceptions/exemptions/federal litigation authority | Answered | C016–C017, C054; S002, S004 | No actual category exemption or representative authority established. |
| 2 — Confidentiality and national/local distinction | Partial | C018, C028, C080, C083; S002, S007, S017; B013 | Authenticate any implementing national rules; full privilege/local regime held. |
| 2 — Compelled settlement/outcome/debt-specific right | Answered by bounded text examination | C019; S001–S008, S019 §2; B004, B006, B024 | Broader private-enforcement or judicial-power theories excluded. |
| 2 — Indispensable generic rule and unexamined remainder | Answered with explicit bounds | C023–C029, C063–C075, C084–C090; S025 read bounds | Full civil procedure, local practice, and unrelated rule provisions remain excluded. |
| 3 — Neutral selection/availability/training | Answered | C030–C032; S003; B010 | No roster, availability, credential, or training fact. |
| 3 — Arbitrator certification/oath/powers | Answered | C033–C034, C047; S005, S012 | No actual certification, oath, referral, or hearing location. |
| 3 — Disqualification/conflicts and nested exceptions | Answered current body; historical authentication partial | C035–C046; S013, S020, S024; B011 | Original 1974 §3 OCR and complete ancillary amendment history remain limited. |
| 3 — Immunity | Answered at express statutory level | C048; S005 §655(c) | Scope of protections under other law and actual immunity determination held. |
| 3 — Compensation/transportation/costs | Partial | C049–C053, C091, C097–C100; S008, S014, S020, S027; B012 | Current complete regulations and later history not authenticated. |
| 3 — Separate substantive cross-reference dossiers | Excluded with reason | C057, C066, C083, C099–C100; B023 | Full §1985 merits, foreign subpoena law, Evidence Rules, fee statutes, and 18 U.S.C. §§201–211 exceed the narrow predicates used. |
| 4 — Current arbitration authorization/consent | Answered subject to preservation qualification | C054, C061–C062; S004; B005, B009 | Actual route and consent absent. |
| 4 — Covered/excluded categories and monetary boundary | Answered text; edge characterization unresolved | C055–C060; S004, S011, S036; B007–B008; M002–M003 | Mixed relief, aggregation, and disputed valuation require further authority. |
| 4 — Independent subject-matter jurisdiction | Boundary answered; merits excluded | C008, C056–C057; S004, S011, S025 Rule 82; B002 | No jurisdictional dossier or actual claim. |
| 4 — Selection, hearing powers, subpoenas, notice, record | Answered statutory/rule text; actual implementation held | C030–C048, C063–C076; S003, S005–S006, S025; B010–B015 | No local hearing notice or transcript requirement authenticated. |
| 4 — Award filing/service proof | Answered | C077; S007 §657(a); B014, B016; M005 | Actual service/filing and deficient-record effects unresolved. |
| 4 — Sealing/disclosure/evidence | Answered exact provisions; broader regime held | C018, C073, C080, C083; B013 | No universal privilege/public-sealing conclusion. |
| 4 — Judgment effect and review restriction | Answered express text; full remedies excluded | C078–C079; S007; B016, B021 | Issuing-court relief, constitutional issues, appeal after trial, and collection remain held. |
| 4 — Trial demand: actor/form/trigger/period/service | Answered ordinary text; application partial | C081–C090; S007, S025–S026; B014, B017; M004, M017–M022 | Actual trigger, governing procedural system, and enlargement authority not established. |
| 4 — Demand/no-demand consequences and costs | Answered provision-specific comparison; application held | C078–C083, C091, C096–C100; B016, B018 | No actual judgment, demand, fee rule, favorability, or bad-faith finding. |
| 4 — FAA confirmation/vacatur and collection | Excluded with reason | C007, C079, C110; B021, B023 | Separate frameworks cannot be imported from the word “arbitration.” |
| 5 — 1988 enacted framework and application clauses | Answered selected complete Title IX | C092–C102; S020; M023–M035 | No actual court/program classification; whole omnibus Act not claimed read. |
| 5 — 1993 restoration/extension | Answered with format qualification | C103; S021; M033–M034 | Enacted PDF numeral garble resolved through grouped official enrolled text and later enacted quotation. |
| 5 — 1994 repeal of repealer | Answered | C104; S022 §3 | Initial route failed; ordinary official alternate read. |
| 5 — 1997 referenced amendment | Answered | C105; S023 §1 | Its narrow funding function is preserved. |
| 5 — 1998 rewrite/repeal/authorization | Answered whole Act | C106–C107; S019 §§1–12 | No special pending-case interpretation inferred. |
| 5 — Preserved-program clause and stray cross-reference word | Partial | C062, C108–C109; S004, S019–S023; B009, B019 | Judicial reconciliation and complete later chain remain held; next inquiry is later generic enacted clarification. |
| 5 — Original national-rule amendment chain | Partial | C003, C029; S025–S026, S032 | 2023 original order read; 2013 original inserted pages not readable; 2007/2018 full original chains not audited. |
| 6 — Source-linked mechanism comparison | Answered | Section 3; C004–C110 | Every mechanism remains conditional; no actual result. |
| 6 — At least 16 substantive branches | Answered: 24 branches | B001–B024, each with status, C/S links, missing predicates, adverse inference, and next inquiry | Branches contain no invented case or person. |
| 7 — Wholly blank worksheet | Answered | Section 6 | All evidence, authority-entry, analysis, and result cells blank. |
| 7 — Measurement register; no invented model/calendar | Answered | M001–M041 | No actual quantity or due date calculated. |
| 7 — Complete visible tables, read/failure log, gaps, self-check | Answered, with disclosed research limits | Sections 1–9 | No independent-review, parent-acceptance, or publication-acceptance claim. |
| Log ID | Source/read action | Result and exact limit |
|---|---|---|
| L001 | S001–S008 official section bodies | Complete eight-section bodies and material displayed notes read; successful ordinary official pages, K compilation. |
| L002 | S033 legacy OLRC paths | Chapter granule route unavailable; section query/granule and chapter-path routes returned unavailable/404 results. No substantive proposition relies on those failures. |
| L003 | S034 newer-version routes; S028–S029 currency/table | Newer target bodies inaccessible; currency and bounded classification material accessible. No equation of failure with absent law. |
| L004 | S019 1998 Act | Whole six-page Act parsed and read. Screenshot attempt did not provide inspectable pixels; no visual certification. |
| L005 | S020 1988 omnibus Act | Complete selected Title IX plus the identified rulemaking/disqualification provisions read; remainder not claimed read. Statutory enumeration was read as law, not used for court/program selection. |
| L006 | S021 1993 Act and ordinary alternatives | Enacted PDF read with one garbled numeral; GovInfo enrolled text successfully supplied that numeral. Failed alternatives: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-103publ192/html/PLAW-103publ192.htm and https://www.congress.gov/103/bills/s1732/BILLS-103s1732enr.pdf. No gate bypass. |
| L007 | S022 1994 Act | Initial route https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-103publ420/pdf/PLAW-103publ420.pdf was inaccessible. Statutes at Large alternate succeeded; complete §3 and approval line read. |
| L008 | Compensation/travel public-authority search | S027’s complete generic ADR compensation action read. A current complete Guide provision and AO transportation regulation were not authenticated. Historical rate excerpts and out-of-scope local-program hits were not adopted or followed. |
| L009 | S024 1974 disqualification Act | Retrieved original has OCR problems in the first printed-page header and part of §3. Current §455 and its complete statutory note were read; original §3 authentication remains partial. |
| L010 | S025 national rules | Complete and selected portions precisely listed in source register read. The remainder of the 142-page compilation was not certified as read. No blank or completed court form inspected. |
| L011 | S026 2023 amendment order | Adoption/effectiveness order, Rule 6 amendment, and complete Rule 87 attachment read. Other amended rules not analyzed. |
| L012 | S032 2013 amendment materials | GPO PDF accessible, but inserted substantive pages were not exposed as readable body text. Supreme Court XML was unsupported; attempted PDF route inaccessible. No claim to unseen original text or pixels. |
| L013 | S030–S031 proposed-rule status | Material official status sections read. Draft-package substance was not used; projected dates were not treated as enacted effectiveness. |
| L014 | Generic search exclusions | Search results incidentally included out-of-scope local-program and judicial-case material. No case, docket, party, neutral, roster, or actual-program query was made; those result bodies were not opened or used as authority. |
| L015 | S036 1979 application provision | Whole one-page original read, including the strict “after enactment” application condition. |
| L016 | Source grouping | Alternate formats, repeated opens, Code restatements, and enrolled/enacted text were grouped by role. They were not represented as multiple independent confirmations of one proposition. |
| Check | Researcher’s assessment |
|---|---|
| Fresh foundation | Earlier conversation reports and separate-project conclusions were not used as legal premises. |
| Principal bodies | All eight accessible official section bodies were read, including exceptions and material displayed notes. |
| Arbitration preservation | §654(d) was retained; the earlier enacted framework was read before making consent, amount, timing, or cost comparisons. |
| Mandatory versus permissive wording | “Shall,” “may,” and “should” were distinguished, including certification, training, referral, reimbursement, and historical compensation principles. |
| Conditions and exceptions | Current exclusions, both trial-evidence exceptions, §455’s nested definitions/exceptions, and the earlier cost provisions’ cumulative predicates were preserved. |
| Quantities and triggers | Filing was distinguished from service; current and historical monetary language was separated; no actual deadline, fee, or financial result was calculated. |
| Source integrity | Failed originals, readable alternatives, parsing limitations, selected read bounds, and compilation/effectiveness differences remain visible. |
| Scope compliance | No actual case, party, neutral, roster, provider, program, agreement, award, or docket investigation was undertaken; no operative document was drafted or transmitted. |
| Worksheet | All evidence, authority-entry, analysis, and result cells remain genuinely blank. |
| Review/acceptance | This is the researcher’s self-check only. It is not independent review and establishes no component, A060/parent, operational, or publication acceptance. |
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Read the evidence with its boundaries. These are saved research components, including revisions. A scoped coordinator review checks selected evidence; it does not certify every claim, a complete jurisdiction, current law or individual applicability. Dates and access limits remain attached to the records.
Source ID · Issuer, title, complete literal HTTPS URL · Exact locator and actual read extent · 18 data rows
| Source ID | Issuer, title, complete literal HTTPS URL | Exact locator and actual read extent | Version, status, effectiveness, and limits |
|---|---|---|---|
| R060-P1-S001 | Office of the Law Revision Counsel, 28 U.S.C. §651, Authorization of alternative dispute resolution. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-121/t28/s651/ | Complete §651(a)–(f), source credit, references, amendment note, and displayed statutory notes on effectiveness, findings, model procedures, reports, rulemaking powers, and funding authorization. | K; operative text as compiled. Rewritten by S019 §3. Historical notes distinguished from the enacted instruments traced below. D. |
| R060-P1-S002 | OLRC, 28 U.S.C. §652, Jurisdiction. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-121/t28/s652/ | Complete §652(a)–(d), credit and notes, including the former monetary-limit exception and its repeal. | K; rewritten by S019 §4. The section’s heading is not treated as an independent jurisdictional grant. D. |
| R060-P1-S003 | OLRC, 28 U.S.C. §653, Neutrals. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-121/t28/s653/ | Complete §653(a)–(b), including training language and the conditional local disqualification-rule requirement; credit and amendment note. | K; rewritten by S019 §5. “Should” and “shall” are preserved separately. D. |
| R060-P1-S004 | OLRC, 28 U.S.C. §654, Arbitration. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-121/t28/s654/ | Complete §654(a)–(d), all three exclusions, consent safeguards, presumption, preservation clause, and editorial footnote concerning the stray word “section.” | K; rewritten by S019 §6. Preservation-clause interpretation and actual program qualification remain unresolved. D. |
| R060-P1-S005 | OLRC, 28 U.S.C. §655, Arbitrators. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-121/t28/s655/ | Complete §655(a)–(c), including territorial limitation on powers, certification, oath/disqualification cross-references, and immunity language. | K; rewritten by S019 §7. No actual certification or immunity determination established. D. |
| R060-P1-S006 | OLRC, 28 U.S.C. §656, Subpoenas. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-121/t28/s656/ | Complete section and notes. | K; rewritten by S019 §8; expressly incorporates Civil Rule 45 for specified arbitration-hearing subpoenas. D. |
| R060-P1-S007 | OLRC, 28 U.S.C. §657, Arbitration award and judgment. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-121/t28/s657/ | Complete §657(a), (b), and (c)(1)–(3), including both evidentiary exceptions; credit and notes. | K; rewritten by S019 §9. Filing, service proof, judgment, trial demand, and review are separate events. D. |
| R060-P1-S008 | OLRC, 28 U.S.C. §658, Compensation of arbitrators and neutrals. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-121/t28/s658/ | Complete §658(a)–(b), credit and amendment note. | K; rewritten by S019 §10. Regulations are conditions on the statutory authorizations; a current complete regulatory chain was not authenticated. D. |
| R060-P1-S009 | OLRC, 28 U.S.C. §451, Definitions. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-121/t28/s451/ | Complete definition body and displayed notes read. Reliance is limited principally to “district court,” “district court of the United States,” “district,” and “judicial district.” | K. Chapter 5 incorporation identified; no actual court/program lookup or complete territorial-court dossier. Historical definitions not substituted for the current body. D. |
| R060-P1-S010 | OLRC, 28 U.S.C. §2071, Rule-making power generally. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-121/t28/s2071/ | Complete §2071(a)–(f); material 1988 effective-date and savings notes. Other displayed historical material was not used to develop a broader procedure dossier. | K. Material 1988 amendments and savings/effective provisions also read in S020. D. |
| R060-P1-S011 | OLRC, 28 U.S.C. §1343, Civil rights and elective franchise. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-121/t28/s1343/ | Complete §1343(a)(1)–(4), (b)(1)–(2), credit and notes, including the 1979 application provision. | K. The 1979 original was separately read in S036. The substantive law incorporated through 42 U.S.C. §1985 remains outside this pass. D. |
| R060-P1-S012 | OLRC, 28 U.S.C. §453, Oaths of justices and judges. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-121/t28/s453/ | Complete oath provision, credit, amendment and effective-date notes. No oath was drafted or completed. | K. The note reports the 1990 amendment’s 90-day delayed effectiveness; its original amendment/effective instrument was not separately authenticated. D. |
| R060-P1-S013 | OLRC, 28 U.S.C. §455, Disqualification of justice, judge, or magistrate judge. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-121/t28/s455/ | Complete §455(a)–(f), every definition, financial-interest exception, waiver restriction, divestiture condition, and displayed material transition notes. | K. S020 supplies the original 1988 addition of (f). S024 was opened for the 1974 Act but has an OCR limitation affecting §3. No judicial interpretation reviewed. D. |
| R060-P1-S014 | OLRC, 28 U.S.C. §1920, Taxation of costs. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-121/t28/s1920/ | Complete six-item body and final bill-of-costs sentence; credit and amendment notes. | K. Read to identify the cross-reference in the earlier arbitration statute. No complete fees, prevailing-party, or temporal-incorporation analysis. D. |
| R060-P1-S015 | OLRC, 28 U.S.C. §2072, Rules of procedure and evidence; power to prescribe. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-121/t28/s2072/ | Complete (a)–(c); selected credit/effectiveness notes. | K. General national-rule authority; not an adjudication of any statute/rule conflict. D. |
| R060-P1-S016 | OLRC, 28 U.S.C. §2073, Rules of procedure and evidence; method of prescribing. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-121/t28/s2073/ | Complete (a)–(e), including public-meeting exceptions and the noninvalidation clause; selected notes. | K. Broader bankruptcy amendments and unrelated reporting/form notes were not developed. D. |
| R060-P1-S017 | OLRC, 28 U.S.C. §2074, Rules of procedure and evidence; submission to Congress; effective date. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-121/t28/s2074/ | Complete (a)–(b); 1988 effectiveness note. Unrelated appended historical rules legislation not relied upon. | K. Includes pending-proceeding qualification and special congressional approval requirement for evidentiary-privilege rules. D. |
| R060-P1-S018 | OLRC, 28 U.S.C. §2075, Bankruptcy rules. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-121/t28/s2075/ | Complete four-paragraph body and selected credit/amendment notes. | K. Read to preserve the distinction between civil and bankruptcy rule authority. The bankruptcy-form command and full Bankruptcy Rules are outside the selected analysis. D. |
Source ID · Issuer, title, complete literal HTTPS URL · Exact locator, printed pages, PDF indexes, and read extent · 7 data rows
| Source ID | Issuer, title, complete literal HTTPS URL | Exact locator, printed pages, PDF indexes, and read extent | Status, effectiveness/application, and limits |
|---|---|---|---|
| R060-P1-S019 | Congress; GPO/GovInfo, Alternative Dispute Resolution Act of 1998, Pub. L. 105-315. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-105publ315/pdf/PLAW-105publ315.pdf | Whole Act, §§1–12, printed 112 Stat. 2993–2998, PDF 0–5. Parsed text read throughout. | Approved October 30, 1998. Rewrites §§651–658; authorizes appropriations; repeals old §901(c). No separate delayed-effective provision appears in the complete Act read. No adjudication of application to a particular pending proceeding. D. |
| R060-P1-S020 | Congress; GPO/GovInfo, Judicial Improvements and Access to Justice Act, Pub. L. 100-702. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-102/pdf/STATUTE-102-Pg4642.pdf | Complete Title IX, §§901–907, printed 102 Stat. 4659–4664, PDF 17–22. Also selected §403(a)(1), printed 4650–4651, PDF 8–9; §§406–407, printed 4652, PDF 10; §1007, printed 4667, PDF 25. Not the whole 32-page Act. | Approved November 19, 1988. Title IX effective 180 days after enactment; original sunset and later changes traced separately. Title IV effective December 1, 1988. Earlier arbitration text is historical, with possible relevance through current §654(d), not a universal present rule. D. |
| R060-P1-S021 | Congress; GPO/GovInfo, Pub. L. 103-192, Act extending arbitration under Chapter 44. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-107/pdf/STATUTE-107-Pg2292.pdf Also enrolled text: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-103s1732enr/pdf/BILLS-103s1732enr.pdf | Entire enacted one-page text, 107 Stat. 2292, PDF 0, and entire one-page enrolled text, PDF 0. The enacted PDF’s replacement numeral in §1(b) was garbled; the enrolled text clearly reads 7, and S022 also quotes the seven-year wording. | Approved December 14, 1993. §1 changes the sunset and funding authorization; §2 supplies the express on-or-after-enactment restoration language. Enrolled and enacted text are grouped, not independent corroboration. D. |
| R060-P1-S022 | Congress; GPO/GovInfo, Judicial Amendments Act of 1994, Pub. L. 103-420. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-108/pdf/STATUTE-108-Pg4343.pdf | Complete §3(a)–(b) and approval line, printed 108 Stat. 4345, PDF 2. Other sections not analyzed. | Approved October 25, 1994. Changes funding authorization and repeals the old repealer, §906. A different official PDF route failed; logged below. D. |
| R060-P1-S023 | Congress; GPO/GovInfo, Pub. L. 105-53. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-105publ53/pdf/PLAW-105publ53.pdf | Complete §1, printed 111 Stat. 1173, PDF 0; approval line on printed 1174, PDF 1. Remaining sections not relied upon. | Approved October 6, 1997. §1 changes the funding authorization to each fiscal year. It does not itself supply a new general arbitration-referral rule. D. |
| R060-P1-S024 | Congress; GPO/GovInfo, Pub. L. 93-512, judicial-disqualification amendments. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-88/pdf/STATUTE-88-Pg1609.pdf | §1 body and §§2–3 material retrieved over PDF 0–1. Official Code citation is 88 Stat. 1609–1610; first-page OCR misreads the printed number, and part of §3 is garbled. Adjacent next Act not relied upon. | Approved December 5, 1974. Original-text authentication is partial for §3; the complete transition is legible in S013’s statutory note. No claim of visually verifying the scan. D. |
| R060-P1-S036 | Congress; GPO/GovInfo, Pub. L. 96-170, civil-rights amendments concerning District of Columbia law. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-93/pdf/STATUTE-93-Pg1284.pdf | Entire Act, §§1–3, printed 93 Stat. 1284, PDF 0. | Approved December 29, 1979. §3 applies the amendments to qualifying deprivations occurring after enactment. Read only to authenticate §1343(b)’s material application note. D. |
Source ID · Issuer, title, complete literal HTTPS URL · Exact locator and actual read extent · 11 data rows
| Source ID | Issuer, title, complete literal HTTPS URL | Exact locator and actual read extent | Version/status/effectiveness and limits |
|---|---|---|---|
| R060-P1-S025 | House Judiciary Committee/GPO; judiciary-hosted Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. https://www.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/document/federal-rules-of-civil-procedure.pdf Official current-rules landing page: https://www.uscourts.gov/forms-rules/current-rules-practice-procedure/federal-rules-civil-procedure | Complete Rule 5, printed 8–10, PDF 26–28; Rule 6, printed 12–14, PDF 30–32; Rule 45, printed 69–73, PDF 87–91; Rules 82–83, printed 101–102, PDF 119–120; Rule 86, printed 102, PDF 120; Rule 87, printed 103, PDF 121. Selected complete Rule 26(b)(1)–(2), printed 41–42, PDF 59–60; Rule 81(a)(2), printed 100, PDF 118. Cover, pertinent credits, and selected historical-note entries read. | R; current official compilation linked by AO. Whole 142-page document not read. Rule-specific displayed credits include Rule 45’s 2013 amendment, Rule 83’s 2007 amendment, Rule 5’s 2018 amendment, and Rules 6/87’s 2023 amendment. Current body distinguished from original amendment instruments and later proposals. D. |
| R060-P1-S026 | Supreme Court, April 24, 2023 civil-rule amendment order and attachment. https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/frcv23_3eah.pdf | Complete adoption order, PDF 2; Rule 6(a)(6) amendment, PDF 3; complete Rule 87 attachment, printed 4–8, PDF 6–10. Other amended rules not analyzed. | Order adopts the changes effective December 1, 2023, for later-commenced proceedings and, insofar as just and practicable, pending proceedings. Attachment’s “Proposed Amendments” caption does not override the adoption order. D. |
| R060-P1-S027 | Judicial Conference, Report of the Proceedings, September 15, 1999. https://www.uscourts.gov/file/2130/download | Complete “Alternative Dispute Resolution” subsection, printed 53–54, PDF 14–15, including regulation, both nonmandatory principles, and accompanying commentary. Report date verified; remainder of 39-page report not analyzed. | Historical published approval of a compensation regulation and expressly nonmandatory principles. No complete current Guide or later amendment/supersession chain authenticated. D. |
| R060-P1-S028 | OLRC, Currency and Updating. https://uscode.house.gov/currency.html | Relevant complete currency explanation and displayed current-public-law statement. HTML. | Displays PL 119-134, October 20, 2026. Publisher currency metadata, not proof every target section’s newer body was accessible or that all later law was audited. D. |
| R060-P1-S029 | OLRC, Classification Tables, 119th Congress, second session. https://uscode.house.gov/classification/tables.html https://uscode.house.gov/classification/tbl119cd_2nd.html | Table instructions and complete Title 28 segment, bounded by the neighboring Title 26 and Title 29 entries, read. Not the entire all-title table or every underlying public law. | Displayed table extends through PL 119-134. No selected ADR/cross-reference amendment appears in that Title 28 segment. A classification-table check is not an exhaustive uncodified-law audit. D. |
| R060-P1-S030 | Administrative Office, Pending Rules and Forms Amendments. https://www.uscourts.gov/forms-rules/pending-rules-and-forms-amendments | Material introductory status explanation and the December 1, 2026 / December 1, 2027 listings. Draft-package bodies not read. | Status page lists Civil Rules 7.1, 26, 41, 45, 81 in the projected 2027 group. Projection is not current operative text or an authenticated final effective date. D. |
| R060-P1-S031 | Administrative Office, Proposed Amendments Published for Public Comment. https://www.uscourts.gov/forms-rules/proposed-amendments-published-public-comment | Material publication/status paragraphs identifying proposed Civil Rules 5, 5.2, 6, 55 and comment-period status. No submission/contact performed. | Proposed material, not substituted for R. Draft substance and future adoption not investigated. D. |
| R060-P1-S032 | GPO, House Document 113-29, Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CDOC-113hdoc29/pdf/CDOC-113hdoc29.pdf Attempted Supreme Court alternatives: https://www.supremecourt.gov/xmls/archive/frcv13.xml https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/frcv13.pdf | GPO PDF has 67 pages. Cover/transmittal text was readable; inserted rule/order pages appeared as offset-folio placeholders in parsed output. The XML route was unsupported; the attempted PDF route failed. | Not used to authenticate the complete 2013 amendment body or order. R’s current Rule 45 body was successfully read. No unseen scan claimed. D. |
| R060-P1-S033 | OLRC, attempted current legacy routes. https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title28-chapter44&num=0&edition=prelim https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:28%20section:651%20edition:prelim) https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title28-section651&num=0&edition=prelim https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title28/part3/chapter44&edition=prelim | No usable statutory body from these attempts; unavailable/404 results. | Failed access only. Successful ordinary official alternatives are S001–S008. D. |
| R060-P1-S034 | OLRC, attempted newer-version routes. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t28/s651/ https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t28/s652/ https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t28/s653/ https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t28/s654/ https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t28/ch44/ | No usable target body returned. Repeated §651 attempt remained inaccessible. | Failed access does not establish absent law or an unchanged statute. D. |
| R060-P1-S035 | OLRC navigation: https://uscode.house.gov/ https://uscode.house.gov/browse.html https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t28/frontmatter/ | Home redirect, title-navigation entry, and selected front-matter material used for discovery. Not a whole front-matter reading. | Navigation/front matter, not substitute evidence for §§651–658. D. |
Claim ID · Atomic finding and material conditions · Exact authority and scope · 19 data rows
| Claim ID | Atomic finding and material conditions | Exact authority and scope |
|---|---|---|
| R060-P1-C001 | The accessible official target sections display K; the general currency page displays a later October 20 compilation point. The examined classification segment contains no listed amendment to the selected sections. Later-law completeness through D remains partial, not established by metadata or failed access. | S001–S018; S028–S029; failures S033–S034. uscode.house.gov +2 |
| R060-P1-C002 | The selected organization is Title 28, Chapter 44, Alternative Dispute Resolution, §§651–658. Their displayed credits identify the 1998 general rewrites; S019 supplies the enacted bodies. Historical section numbers sometimes concern different subjects and cannot be read as current captions. | S001–S008; S019 §§3–10; S020 §901. |
| R060-P1-C003 | R is the currently linked official civil-rules compilation read. Proposed changes to Rules 5, 6, 45, and 81 are separately identified in official status material; their proposed text was not applied. The complete later rulemaking history was not audited. | S025 cover/current-rules page; S030–S031. uscourts.gov +2 |
| R060-P1-C004 | For Chapter 44, ADR includes a process other than adjudication by a presiding judge, with a neutral third party assisting resolution of disputed issues. Examples include early neutral evaluation, mediation, minitrial, and arbitration under §§654–658. The definition is chapter-specific. | S001 §651(a). uscode.house.gov |
| R060-P1-C005 | The program command addresses each United States district court. Section 451 defines district courts by reference to courts constituted under Chapter 5, and defines districts/judicial districts by that chapter. This is not a statement that every federal tribunal or administrative body is covered. | S001 §651(b); S009 definition paragraphs. uscode.house.gov |
| R060-P1-C006 | Section 651(b) expressly includes adversary proceedings in bankruptcy within civil actions. That wording does not by itself classify every bankruptcy matter as an adversary proceeding. Civil Rule 81(a)(2) separately limits application of Civil Rules in bankruptcy to the extent provided by Bankruptcy Rules. | S001 §651(b); S004 §654(a); S025 Rule 81(a)(2). |
| R060-P1-C007 | Chapter 44 expressly leaves Title 9 unaffected. Consequently, this pass does not replace the FAA’s separate predicates with Chapter 44 rules, or establish that a private clause or administrative ADR process is governed by this chapter. | S001 §651(e); definition in §651(a). |
| R060-P1-C008 | Arbitration referral concerns an action pending before the district court. ADR authorization does not establish that an unidentified action has subject-matter jurisdiction. Civil Rule 82 states that the Civil Rules do not extend or limit district-court jurisdiction or venue. | S004 §654(a); S025 Rule 82, complete body. Underlying jurisdictional merits held. |
| R060-P1-C009 | Each district court must authorize ADR by local rule adopted under §2071(a), and devise and implement its own program by such a rule. Arbitration authorization is expressly limited to §654. These are statutory commands to courts, not proof of any particular local rule. | S001 §651(b). |
| R060-P1-C010 | A court with an ADR program in place on October 30, 1998, the 1998 Act’s enactment date, must examine its effectiveness and adopt improvements consistent with the chapter’s provisions and purposes. | S001 §651(c); S019 approval and §3. |
| R060-P1-C011 | Each district court must designate an ADR-knowledgeable employee or judicial officer to implement, administer, oversee, and evaluate its program. That person may also recruit, screen, and train attorneys as neutrals/arbitrators; the additional role is permissive. | S001 §651(d). |
| R060-P1-C012 | The Federal Judicial Center and Administrative Office are authorized to assist establishment and improvement of programs through identification of practices and appropriate assistance. This does not prove funding, neutral availability, or an individual entitlement. | S001 §651(f). |
| R060-P1-C013 | Subject to §652(b) and (c), district courts must adopt a local rule requiring litigants in civil cases to consider ADR at an appropriate litigation stage. Consideration is not the same act as consenting to arbitration or accepting settlement terms. | S002 §652(a), first sentence. uscode.house.gov |
| R060-P1-C014 | Section 652(a) requires provision of at least one ADR process, subject to the section’s qualifications. It does not grant a choice of every listed process to every litigant. | S002 §652(a), second sentence; §652(b)–(c). |
| R060-P1-C015 | Under §652(a)’s stated compulsory-use provision, a court electing to require ADR may do so only for mediation, early neutral evaluation, and arbitration if the parties consent. Minitrial’s appearance in the availability list does not put it in that compulsory-use list. The §654(d) preservation issue must also be retained. | S002 §652(a), final sentence; S004 §654(d). |
| R060-P1-C016 | A court may exempt specific cases or categories when ADR would be inappropriate. In defining exemptions it must consult bar members, including the district’s United States Attorney. No particular exemption is established here. | S002 §652(b). |
| R060-P1-C017 | Section 652 preserves the Attorney General’s federal litigation authority, federal agencies’ authorized litigation authority, and delegations by the Attorney General. Program provisions do not themselves establish a generic representative’s authority to settle. | S002 §652(c). |
| R060-P1-C018 | Until Chapter 131 rules provide for confidentiality of these ADR processes, each district court must provide confidentiality and prohibit disclosure of confidential dispute-resolution communications by §2071(a) local rule. The statute does not itself supply a complete privilege, waiver, exception, or public-access code. | S002 §652(d); S015–S017. Whether all relevant superseding national provisions exist was not exhaustively authenticated. |
| R060-P1-C019 | The complete selected chapter contains no command that parties actually agree on settlement terms, no guaranteed negotiated outcome, and no debt-specific settlement entitlement. This is a bounded text conclusion, not a determination of every power or remedy under other law. | S001–S008 in full; S019 §2 findings are statements of potential benefits, not individual outcome guarantees. |
Claim ID · Atomic finding and material conditions · Exact authority and scope · 10 data rows
| Claim ID | Atomic finding and material conditions | Exact authority and scope |
|---|---|---|
| R060-P1-C020 | Rules under §2071 must be consistent with Acts of Congress and national rules under §2072; district courts may prescribe rules only under §2071. The material 1988 amendments were enacted in S020 §403(a)(1), with Title IV effective December 1, 1988. | S010 §2071(a), (f); S020 §§403(a)(1), 407. |
| R060-P1-C021 | Non-Supreme-Court rules ordinarily require appropriate public notice and opportunity to comment, with effectiveness and pending-proceeding effect set by the prescribing court. An immediate-need determination permits adoption first, but notice/comment must follow promptly. | S010 §2071(b), (e), read together. |
| R060-P1-C022 | Section 2071 provides for judicial-council or Judicial Conference modification/abrogation as specified, distribution of rules to the relevant bodies, and public availability. S020 §406 preserves previously lawful rules in force at the effective date until changed under the amended law. | S010 §2071(c)–(d); S020 §406. |
| R060-P1-C023 | Civil Rule 83(a)(1) requires public notice/comment and action by a majority of district judges. Local rules must be consistent with, but not duplicate, federal statutes and rules under §§2072/2075; conform to applicable uniform numbering; and be distributed and publicly available. Their stated effectiveness and continued force are subject to amendment/abrogation. | S025 Rule 83(a)(1), complete paragraph. |
| R060-P1-C024 | A local requirement of form may not be enforced so that a party loses a right because of a nonwillful failure to comply. This is not a general exemption from substantive conditions or all deadlines. | S025 Rule 83(a)(2). |
| R060-P1-C025 | When no controlling law governs, a judge may regulate practice consistently with federal law, national rules, and local rules. A sanction or disadvantage for violating a requirement outside those sources requires actual notice in the particular case. | S025 Rule 83(b). uscourts.gov |
| R060-P1-C026 | Section 2072 authorizes national practice, procedure, and evidence rules for district courts—including proceedings before magistrate judges—and courts of appeals. Such rules may not change substantive rights; the section also addresses conflicting laws and definition of finality for appeal. No conflict or appeal result is adjudicated here. | S015 §2072(a)–(c). |
| R060-P1-C027 | Section 2073 supplies committee procedures, ordinarily public meetings and minutes, a specified public-interest closure procedure, sufficient meeting notice, and accompanying proposed text/explanatory note/report. Failure to comply with §2073 does not itself invalidate a rule under §§2072 or 2075. | S016 §2073(a)–(e). |
| R060-P1-C028 | Under §2074, transmission is due no later than May 1 of the intended effective year; effectiveness is no earlier than December 1 that year unless law provides otherwise. Pending-proceeding application has feasibility/injustice protection. A rule creating, abolishing, or modifying evidentiary privilege needs an Act of Congress. Section 2075 separately provides bankruptcy rulemaking and analogous transmission/effectiveness timing, without authorizing modification of substantive rights. | S017 §2074(a)–(b); S018 complete operative paragraphs. |
| R060-P1-C029 | Rule 86 distinguishes later-commenced actions from pending proceedings and preserves exceptions specified by the Supreme Court or necessary to avoid infeasibility/injustice. Its 2007 paragraph preserves priority-in-time analysis for the restyling changes. S026 independently establishes the stated December 1, 2023 effectiveness and pending-proceeding qualification for its amendments. | S025 Rule 86(a)–(b); S026 adoption order ¶2. |
Claim ID · Atomic finding and material conditions · Exact authority and scope · 24 data rows
| Claim ID | Atomic finding and material conditions | Exact authority and scope |
|---|---|---|
| R060-P1-C030 | A district court authorizing ADR must adopt appropriate processes to make neutrals available for each offered category and promulgate its own panel-selection procedures and criteria. This does not prove an actual roster, selection, or available neutral. | S003 §653(a). |
| R060-P1-C031 | Section 653(b) says a neutral should be qualified and trained for the appropriate process. It permits trained magistrate judges, private professional neutrals, and other trained persons among the possible sources. No national training duration or credential is specified there. | S003 §653(b), first two sentences. |
| R060-P1-C032 | Until Chapter 131 disqualification rules are adopted, courts must issue local disqualification rules, including where appropriate §455, other applicable law, and professional-responsibility standards. That qualified reference for neutrals differs from §655(b)’s mandatory arbitrator provision. | S003 §653(b), final sentence; S005 §655(b)(2). |
| R060-P1-C033 | Courts authorizing arbitration must establish certification standards and certify arbitrators consistently with the standards and chapter. Standards must require the §453 oath/affirmation and application of §455 disqualification rules. | S005 §655(b)(1)–(2). |
| R060-P1-C034 | Section 453 prescribes an oath/affirmation before performance of office duties, addressing impartial discharge of duties under the Constitution and laws and equal justice. Reading it does not establish that any arbitrator took it. | S012 complete body, incorporated by S005 §655(b)(1). |
| R060-P1-C035 | Section 455(a) requires disqualification when impartiality might reasonably be questioned; it is separate from the listed grounds in (b). | S013 §455(a). |
| R060-P1-C036 | Personal bias/prejudice concerning a party or personal knowledge of disputed evidentiary facts is a listed disqualification ground. | S013 §455(b)(1). |
| R060-P1-C037 | The private-practice ground covers personal service as lawyer in the matter, an associated lawyer’s service during the association, and the identified judge/lawyer having been a material witness. | S013 §455(b)(2). |
| R060-P1-C038 | The government-employment ground covers participation in that capacity as counsel, adviser, or material witness, or expression of an opinion on the particular case’s merits. | S013 §455(b)(3). |
| R060-P1-C039 | Known financial interests of the decision-maker individually/as fiduciary, spouse, or minor child residing in the household—in the subject matter or a party—and other interests substantially affected by the outcome trigger the specified ground, subject to the statutory definitions and (f). | S013 §455(b)(4), (d), (f). |
| R060-P1-C040 | The relationship ground extends to the decision-maker, spouse, persons within the third degree of relationship to either, and spouses of those persons, if they are a party or its officer/director/trustee, act as lawyer, have the specified known substantially affected interest, or are known likely material witnesses. | S013 §455(b)(5)(i)–(iv). |
| R060-P1-C041 | Section 455(c) says the judge should know personal/fiduciary financial interests and make reasonable efforts concerning the spouse’s and resident minor children’s personal financial interests. | S013 §455(c). |
| R060-P1-C042 | “Proceeding” includes pretrial, trial, appellate review, and other litigation stages. Relationship degree uses the civil-law system. “Fiduciary” includes executor, administrator, trustee, and guardian relationships. | S013 §455(d)(1)–(3). |
| R060-P1-C043 | Financial interest includes legal/equitable ownership however small or active participation in a party’s affairs. Exceptions: investment-fund securities absent participation in fund management; specified nonprofit-type offices do not create interests in securities held by the organization; mutual-policyholder/depositor/similar interests count only if their value could be substantially affected; government securities count only if their value could be substantially affected. | S013 §455(d)(4)(i)–(iv), complete exceptions. |
| R060-P1-C044 | Parties cannot waive a ground listed in §455(b). A ground arising only under (a) may be waived after full on-record disclosure of the basis. Consent to ADR is not itself that disclosure or waiver. | S013 §455(e). |
| R060-P1-C045 | Section 455(f)’s divestiture exception requires assignment of the matter, substantial judicial time, later appearance/discovery of the specified financial interest in a party, an interest other than one substantially affected by the outcome, and divestiture by the holder. It is not a general cure for every conflict. | S013 §455(f); enacted addition S020 §1007. |
| R060-P1-C046 | S013’s statutory note preserves a 1974 application restriction for trials of proceedings commenced before the Act and appellate review fully submitted before it. The opened original’s §3 was partly garbled; its complete original wording is not certified here. No actual historical proceeding is classified. | S013 1974 effective-date note; S024 §3, partial original authentication. |
| R060-P1-C047 | An arbitrator receiving an action under §654 may conduct hearings, administer oaths/affirmations, and make awards within the judicial district of the referring district court. This does not prove a referral or authorize every conceivable hearing arrangement. | S005 §655(a)(1)–(3). |
| R060-P1-C048 | Chapter 44 arbitrators perform quasi-judicial functions and receive the immunities/protections the law accords to that capacity. The statute does not define every immunity boundary or extend this sentence indiscriminately to every mediator or private provider. | S005 §655(c). |
| R060-P1-C049 | The district court must establish compensation, if any, for each arbitrator/neutral’s services in each case, subject to Judicial Conference-approved regulations. This supplies neither a national fee nor a proven payer or fee obligation. | S008 §658(a). |
| R060-P1-C050 | A court may reimburse arbitrators and other neutrals for actual transportation expenses necessarily incurred performing chapter duties, under AO Director regulations. No mileage rate, automatic reimbursement, or other expense entitlement is established. | S008 §658(b). |
| R060-P1-C051 | The 1999 Conference publication records approval of a regulation requiring a local compensation rule or policy, leaving pro bono/fee choice to the court. Its discouragement of court-funded nonstaff neutrals is expressly conditional on funding not being provided under the Act. It is not a finding about present appropriations. | S027, printed 53/PDF 14, regulation paragraph. |
| R060-P1-C052 | The same publication expressly labels two principles nonmandatory: disclose rates/limits, and require disclosure of fee/expense arrangements, with inability-to-afford relief expressed as “should.” Commentary discusses minimizing burden and defining any pro bono commitment. This does not prove a current enforceable individual waiver. | S027, printed 53–54/PDF 14–15, complete principles/commentary. |
| R060-P1-C053 | A current complete Guide provision, later compensation amendments, and current AO transportation regulations were not authenticated. Historical rates in search excerpts were not adopted. Present regulatory amounts, waivers, and reimbursement mechanics remain unresolved. | Research limit for S008 and S027; failure/read log L008. |
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| Claim ID | Atomic finding and material conditions | Exact authority and scope |
|---|---|---|
| R060-P1-C054 | Subject to §652(a)–(c) and §654(d), a district court may allow referral of a civil action, including a bankruptcy adversary proceeding, pending before it when the parties consent, provided the listed exclusions do not apply. Consent is a condition, not a command to order referral. | S004 §654(a), opening clause. |
| R060-P1-C055 | The current referral provision excludes an action based on an alleged violation of a right secured by the United States Constitution. | S004 §654(a)(1), subject to the opening qualifications, including (d). |
| R060-P1-C056 | It also excludes an action whose jurisdiction rests in whole or in part on §1343. This cannot be reduced to an amount-only test. | S004 §654(a)(2). |
| R060-P1-C057 | Section 1343(a) covers the specified §1985-conspiracy damage actions, knowing failures to prevent specified wrongs despite power to prevent, deprivations under color of state law of constitutional/equal-rights protections, and civil-rights statutory damages/equitable/other relief. Subsection (b) supplies the District of Columbia rules. The 1979 amendments apply to qualifying deprivations occurring after December 29, 1979. Classification under §1985 or other merits law is not completed. | S011 §1343(a)(1)–(4), (b); S036 §§2–3. |
| R060-P1-C058 | Section 654(a)(3) excludes referral where the relief sought consists of money damages greater than $150,000. Equality is not excluded by this monetary clause alone. The amount is not a jurisdictional minimum, debt validation, asset valuation, or affordability test. | S004 §654(a)(3). |
| R060-P1-C059 | The court may presume damages do not exceed $150,000 unless counsel certifies that they exceed it. The presumption is permissive and does not establish the true amount or all referral predicates. Handling of an unrepresented situation is not resolved by inventing a substitute certification rule. | S004 §654(c). |
| R060-P1-C060 | The current monetary clause does not contain the earlier compulsory-referral phrase excluding interest and costs. Nor does current §654(a) use the earlier route’s “only” money-damages formulation. Aggregation, mixed relief, and disputed valuation are not resolved by importing the earlier wording. | S004 §654(a)(3), contrasted with S020 former §652(a)(1)(B). |
| R060-P1-C061 | Until applicable Chapter 131 rules are adopted, local procedures must ensure freely and knowingly obtained consent and no prejudice to a party or attorney for refusing arbitration. The statute does not prescribe a universal consent form, signature block, or record here. | S004 §654(b)(1)–(2). |
| R060-P1-C062 | Section 654(d) preserves programs conducting arbitration pursuant to the referenced 1988 Title IX as amended by the specified 1997 §1. Its text contains the short locator “section … title IX”; OLRC flags the stray word. The referenced instruments were read, but the clause is not converted into proof that any actual program qualifies. | S004 §654(d); S019 §6; S020 Title IX; S023 §1. |
| R060-P1-C063 | Civil Rule 45 applies to attendance and documentary-evidence subpoenas at arbitration hearings under this chapter. This is not a general subpoena authorization for every informal ADR session. | S006 §656. |
| R060-P1-C064 | Rule 45(a) requires the specified court/action, command, and protection information. Issuance is from the court where the action is pending; issuance/signing authority is assigned to the clerk and authorized attorneys as stated. An arbitrator’s hearing powers alone are not an express grant of every Rule 45 issuance function. | S025 Rule 45(a)(1)–(3); S005 §655(a). |
| R060-P1-C065 | A subpoena commanding pretrial production/inspection requires notice and a copy to each party before service on the commanded person. The deposition recording-method provision is not a statutory requirement to record every arbitration hearing. | S025 Rule 45(a)(4), (a)(1)(B). |
| R060-P1-C066 | Subpoena service may be by a nonparty at least 18; attendance service ordinarily includes tender of one day’s attendance fees and legally allowed mileage, with the stated United States/officer/agency exception. Domestic service is nationwide; foreign service is referred to §1783. When proof is necessary, the certified statement must contain the specified service information. No fee amount or foreign-service result is established. | S025 Rule 45(b)(1)–(4), complete provision. |
| R060-P1-C067 | Attendance may be commanded within 100 miles of residence, employment, or regular in-person business; alternatively within the state under the party/party-officer condition or the distinct trial attendance/no-substantial-expense condition. Production has its own 100-mile rule; premises inspection is at the premises. Nationwide service is not unlimited travel authority. | S025 Rule 45(c)(1)–(2). |
| R060-P1-C068 | The issuer/server must reasonably avoid undue burden or expense. The compliance court must enforce that duty and impose an appropriate sanction for violation, potentially including lost earnings and reasonable attorney fees. This is not a national ADR participation charge. | S025 Rule 45(d)(1). |
| R060-P1-C069 | Production alone does not require personal appearance unless appearance is also commanded. Written objections must be served before the earlier of the compliance time or 14 days after service. Following objection, compulsion requires the prescribed court order, with protection of a nonparty/nonofficer from significant compliance expense. | S025 Rule 45(d)(2)(A)–(B). |
| R060-P1-C070 | On timely motion, the compliance court must quash or modify for insufficient reasonable compliance time, prohibited geographic reach, privileged/protected material absent exception or waiver, or undue burden. | S025 Rule 45(d)(3)(A)(i)–(iv). |
| R060-P1-C071 | Trade-secret/confidential commercial information and specified unretained-expert material permit quashing/modification. An alternative conditional order requires both otherwise unmet substantial need without undue hardship and reasonable compensation to the subpoenaed person. | S025 Rule 45(d)(3)(B)–(C), both predicates. |
| R060-P1-C072 | Rule 45(e)(1) governs organization and form of production, avoids duplicate ESI forms, and conditions inaccessible-ESI discovery on burden/cost showings, good cause, Rule 26(b)(2)(C) limits, and possible conditions. Rule 26(b)(1)–(2) supplies nonprivilege, relevance, proportionality, duplication, alternative-source, and opportunity limits. These do not validate an actual demand. | S025 Rules 45(e)(1), 26(b)(1)–(2). |
| R060-P1-C073 | A withheld privilege/protection claim must be express and described without revealing protected information. After notification of a claim over produced material, return/sequestration/destruction, nonuse/nondisclosure, retrieval efforts, possible sealed presentation, and preservation obligations apply as stated. This is not proof that an ADR communication is privileged. | S025 Rule 45(e)(2)(A)–(B). |
| R060-P1-C074 | A subpoena motion may be transferred from a nonissuing compliance court to the issuing court with the subject’s consent or exceptional circumstances; the rule separately addresses attorney appearance and enforcement transfer. | S025 Rule 45(f), complete paragraph. |
| R060-P1-C075 | Rule 45(g) permits contempt for a served person’s failure, without adequate excuse, to obey a subpoena or related order, by the specified compliance/issuing court. No actual service, breach, contempt, or sanction is established. | S025 Rule 45(g). |
| R060-P1-C076 | Current §§651–658 do not state a fixed general hearing-start deadline, a universal advance arbitration-hearing notice interval, or a universal hearing-transcript requirement. The earlier statute did contain hearing-start timing, C095. Local and other applicable procedure remains separate. | Complete S001–S008; S020 former §653(b); S025 Rule 45’s distinct deposition provision. |
| R060-P1-C077 | An award under the chapter, with proof of service on the other party by the prevailing party or plaintiff, must be filed promptly after the hearing concludes with the referring district court’s clerk. The sentence identifies the service actor but does not expressly assign the filing task to one specified actor. | S007 §657(a), first sentence. |
| R060-P1-C078 | Read with §657(c), the award is to be entered as judgment after the trial-demand period expires without a qualifying demand. Award making, service, filing, expiration, and judgment entry are distinct. Filing an award is not proof judgment has been entered. | S007 §657(a), (c)(1)–(2). |
| R060-P1-C079 | The award-based judgment so entered has ordinary civil-judgment force/effect and applicable law, with the express restriction on review in another court by appeal or otherwise. The sentence does not supply a complete issuing-court relief, collateral-review, constitutional, trial-judgment appeal, or collection dossier. | S007 §657(a), second paragraph. |
| R060-P1-C080 | The local rule required by §657(b) must keep award contents from a judge who might be assigned to the case until final judgment or other termination. The heading “Sealing” does not turn this specified restriction into universal public sealing or a complete confidentiality privilege. | S007 §657(b). |
| R060-P1-C081 | Any party may file a written trial-de-novo demand in the district court within 30 days after the award is filed under §657(a). The stated trigger is filing—not hearing completion, award announcement, receipt, or service alone. The effect of a deficient filing/service record is unresolved. | S007 §657(c)(1). |
| R060-P1-C082 | Upon the demand, the action must return to the court docket and be treated for all purposes as if it had not been referred to arbitration. That statutory restoration is distinct from appellate review of an award-based judgment. | S007 §657(c)(2). |
| R060-P1-C083 | At trial de novo, evidence of the arbitration’s existence, award nature/amount, or conduct is excluded unless it would otherwise be admissible under the Federal Rules of Evidence or the parties otherwise stipulated. Both exceptions must be retained; the complete Evidence Rules were not investigated. | S007 §657(c)(3)(A)–(B). |
| R060-P1-C084 | Where Civil Rule 5 governs, written demands/notices are among papers ordinarily served on every party. The rule has exceptions for default for failure to appear, special property-seizure circumstances, and specified numerous-defendant orders; represented-party service ordinarily goes to counsel. Its enumerated methods have distinct consent, completion, and failed-delivery conditions. | S025 Rule 5(a)–(c), complete provisions. This does not replace §657(a)’s express award-service-proof requirement. |
| R060-P1-C085 | Rule 5(d) separately regulates filing, certificates, discovery nonfiling, nonelectronic delivery, represented/unrepresented electronic filing, electronic signatures, and clerk acceptance. Filing through the electronic system has a certificate exception; other methods have the stated certificate requirements. General “reasonable time” provisions do not erase §657(c)(1)’s specific filing period. | S025 Rule 5(d)(1)–(4). |
| R060-P1-C086 | Where Rule 6(a) governs a statutory period lacking a counting method: exclude the triggering day, count intermediate weekends/holidays, include the last day subject to weekend/holiday continuation, apply the stated clerk-inaccessibility protection, and use the prescribed filing-day endpoint unless another time controls. The holiday definition includes the listed statutory holidays, presidential/congressional declarations, and the specified state-holiday rule for after-event periods. | S025 Rule 6(a)(1), (3)–(6). No calendar calculated. |
| R060-P1-C087 | Rule 6(b) states good-cause extension standards: action/request before expiry, or a post-expiry motion with excusable neglect, and enumerated restrictions. This pass does not resolve judicial interpretations concerning enlargement or relief from §657(c)(1)’s statutory period. | S025 Rule 6(b); S007 §657(c)(1). |
| R060-P1-C088 | Rule 6(d)’s additional three days concerns an act measured after service by specified Rule 5 methods—mail, leaving with the clerk, or other consented means. It does not turn §657(c)(1)’s award-filing trigger into an automatic 33-day period. | S025 Rules 6(d), 5(b)(2)(C), (D), (F); S007 §657(c)(1). |
| R060-P1-C089 | Rule 6(c)’s general written-motion/hearing-notice and affidavit periods have ex parte, different-rule, court-order, and specified affidavit qualifications. They are not, merely because a proceeding is called a hearing, a universal arbitration-hearing notice period. | S025 Rule 6(c)(1)–(2), complete provision. |
| R060-P1-C090 | Rule 87 requires a qualifying Judicial Conference emergency declaration identifying affected courts and a limited period; its emergency extension provision concerns listed posttrial motions. It does not expressly identify a §657 trial-de-novo demand. No actual emergency declaration or resulting extension is established. | S025 Rule 87(a)–(c); S026 complete Rule 87 attachment. |
| R060-P1-C091 | Current §657 contains no express general cost penalty for demanding trial de novo. That textual absence does not establish cost-free litigation or eliminate the possible relevance of earlier preserved-program provisions or other unexamined costs law. | Complete S007; S004 §654(d); C097–C100 below. |
Claim ID · Atomic historical or transition finding · Exact authority and present limit · 19 data rows
| Claim ID | Atomic historical or transition finding | Exact authority and present limit |
|---|---|---|
| R060-P1-C092 | Former §651 limited authorization to the former §658 court categories. The enumerated category could use former §652(a); the ten additional Judicial Conference-approved districts could use only the consent route. The compulsory route required only money damages, no more than $100,000 or a lower court-set amount, excluding interest and costs; its statutory presumption used $100,000 unless counsel certified more. | S020 §901(a), former §§651(a), 652(a)(1)(B), (a)(2), 658. Historical; no actual court-category lookup. |
| R060-P1-C093 | Former §652(a)(1)(A) separately allowed consent referral of civil actions, including bankruptcy adversary proceedings. Former §652(b)’s constitutional-right and §1343 restrictions were restrictions on referral without consent under (a)(1)(B), unlike the wording of current §654(a)’s exclusions. | S020 former §652(a)–(b); current comparison S004. |
| R060-P1-C094 | Former §652(c) required local procedures for exemption, on the court’s own initiative or party motion, when arbitration objectives would not be realized because of complex/novel legal issues, legal issues predominating over factual issues, or other good cause. Former (d) required freely/knowingly obtained consent and no prejudice for refusal. | S020 former §652(c)–(d). |
| R060-P1-C095 | Former §653(b) required a court-specified hearing start no later than 180 days after answer filing, but, absent consent, not until 30 days after disposition of the listed motions filed within a court-specified period. The listed motions concern dismissal, judgment on pleadings, necessary-party joinder, and summary judgment. Both periods could be modified for good cause. | S020 former §653(b), complete paragraph. Not a current universal hearing deadline. |
| R060-P1-C096 | Former §§654–655 used the award/service-proof filing and 30-day written-demand structure, but also expressly preserved otherwise-existing jury rights and a calendar position no later than otherwise available. Former award nondisclosure included exceptions concerning cost/fee determinations and the statutory report; former §654(c) allowed a local rule including §1920 costs in an award. | S020 former §654(a)–(c), §655(a)–(c). Do not substitute these former qualifications silently into current §657. |
| R060-P1-C097 | Former §655(d) allowed a local rule taxing paid arbitrator fees against a trial-demanding party and an advance deposit equal to those fees, with the stated United States/agency/officer and in-forma-pauperis deposit exceptions. Fees could not be taxed, and the deposit had to be returned, if the demanding party obtained a more favorable final judgment or the demand was for good cause. Retained amounts went to Treasury. A rule under (d) had to preserve (d)(4)’s limitation on other penalties. | S020 former §655(d)(1)–(4), all conditions. Separate (e) remains C098; no actual rule, deposit, or assessment established. |
| R060-P1-C098 | Former §655(e), for arbitration conducted by consent, separately permitted §1920 costs and reasonable attorney fees against the trial-demanding party only if that party failed to obtain a judgment, excluding interest/costs, substantially more favorable than the award and the court found bad faith in seeking trial de novo. No percentage definition of “substantially” is supplied. | S020 former §655(e)(1)–(2). Both predicates required. |
| R060-P1-C099 | Current §1920 lists clerk/marshal fees; necessary printed/electronic transcripts; printing/witness fees; necessary exemplification/copies; §1923 docket fees; and specified court-appointed expert/interpreter services. A bill of costs is included in judgment/decree upon allowance. This is not a complete fee-shifting entitlement or a conclusion about temporal incorporation into an earlier program. | S014 complete body; references in S020 former §§654(c), 655(e). |
| R060-P1-C100 | Former §656 required certification, oath, and §455 disqualification, and separately treated arbitrators as independent contractors subject to 18 U.S.C. §§201–211 to the stated special-government-employee extent. Former §657 permitted compensation subject to Judicial Conference limits and transportation reimbursement under AO regulations. The criminal-law cross-reference and present application need a separate dossier. | S020 former §§656–657. No criminal, tax, employment, or immunity result inferred. |
| R060-P1-C101 | Original §902 authorized model rules without permitting them to supersede statute; §904 preserved judicial rulemaking powers. Section 903 required annual AO statistical reporting and a five-year FJC report addressing program descriptions, satisfaction, program features, hearing costs, and recommendations. These are institutional provisions, not proof of actual program performance. | S020 §§902–904; corresponding S001 notes. |
| R060-P1-C102 | Original Title IX became effective 180 days after November 19, 1988. Original §906 provided repeal five years after enactment, preserving the chapter through final disposition for actions referred before repeal. Those are different triggers from “five years after effectiveness.” The repealer was subsequently changed and repealed. | S020 §§906–907; S021–S022. |
| R060-P1-C103 | The 1993 Act replaced the original sunset formula with December 31, 1994, changed four succeeding funding years to seven, and expressly made Chapter 44 effective on and after December 14, 1993 as if the former repealer had not repealed it. No unexamined interim judicial consequence is inferred. | S021 §§1–2; enacted approval; enrolled text resolves the numeral. |
| R060-P1-C104 | The 1994 Act changed the funding authorization to fiscal years 1994–1997, removed the spending cutoff associated with repeal, and repealed §906 and its table item. Therefore the old repealer cannot be quoted as a current general sunset. | S022 §3(a)–(b). |
| R060-P1-C105 | The 1997 provision referenced by current §654(d) changed former §905’s funding authorization from fiscal years 1994–1997 to each fiscal year. Its actual body is an appropriations-authorization amendment, not a freestanding new consent or referral provision. | S023 §1; S004 §654(d). |
| R060-P1-C106 | The complete 1998 Act rewrote all eight sections and expressly repealed old §901(c), the provision allowing specified preexisting local monetary limits up to $150,000. The original higher-limit exception is therefore not presented as a free-standing current authorization. The Act read contains no separate delayed-effective clause. | S019 §§3–10, 12(a)–(b), approval; S020 §901(c). |
| R060-P1-C107 | The 1998 Act authorizes necessary appropriations for each fiscal year. The earlier authorization, as amended, addresses allocation of appropriated funds and availability until expended. Authorization is not an appropriation, an actual allocation, an individual fee payment, or an entitlement to free ADR. | S019 §11; S020 §905 as amended by S021–S023; S001 funding notes. |
| R060-P1-C108 | Section 651(c)’s explicit enactment-date test and §654(d)’s reference to programs under specified legislation are different predicates. Section 654(d) states no numerical expiration period. Whether a program qualifies, and how each former provision interacts with the rewrite and express repeal, remain questions requiring additional authority beyond a program label. | S001 §651(c); S004 §654(d); S019 §12(a). |
| R060-P1-C109 | The preserved-program interaction, disputed monetary characterization, statutory-period enlargement, deficient filing/service effects, immunity boundaries, and broader review/remedies were not resolved through judicial authority. No case-law consensus or absence of a remedy is asserted. | Scope limit tied to C045–C048, C060–C062, C077–C091, C092–C108. |
| R060-P1-C110 | This statutory investigation supplies no actual jurisdiction, local duty, consent, qualification, conflict, fee, award, judgment, demand, debt validity, collection right, or settlement suitability finding. Broader FAA, state law, bankruptcy merits, remedies, and actual program facts remain held. | Scope of S001–S008 and the expressly limited cross-reference readings. |
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| Mechanism | Actor and cumulative predicate | Record or process | Stated consequence/discretion | Timing and principal limits | Claims/sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Court establishment of ADR | District court; Chapter 44 scope; valid rulemaking authority | Local rule and program | Court must authorize, devise, and implement; arbitration restricted to §654 | No individual award or settlement guarantee | C005–C012; S001, S009–S010 |
| Consideration of ADR | Litigants covered by a valid local rule; §652 qualifications | Consideration at an appropriate litigation stage | Consideration required through local rule | Exemptions and federal litigation-authority savings remain | C013–C017; S002 |
| Required use of mediation/ENE | Court elects to require a listed process in covered cases | Participation in the authorized process | Use may be required under the stated provision | No statutory obligation to accept settlement terms | C015, C019; S002 |
| Current §654 arbitration referral | Pending civil action; consent; no applicable exclusion; §652 and §654(d) qualifications | Referral under an authorized program | Court may allow referral; arbitrator may exercise specified powers | Current monetary/category tests; local consent procedures | C054–C062; S004–S005 |
| Neutral selection/certification | Program category and applicable selection standards; additional arbitrator standards | Local selection procedures; certification/oath where required | Availability/selection process required; no actual qualification proven | General-neutral “should” language differs from arbitrator certification requirements | C030–C048; S003, S005, S012–S013 |
| Arbitration hearing subpoena | Chapter arbitration hearing; Rule 45 issuance, notice, service, geography, and protections | Subpoena and necessary proof/order | Attendance/production may be compelled within the rule’s conditions | Service reach differs from compliance reach; objections/protections apply | C063–C075; S006, S025 |
| Award filing | Award under chapter; required service proof; hearing concluded | Award plus proof filed with referring clerk | Creates the statutory filing event | “Promptly”; not yet proof of judgment entry | C077; S007 |
| Award-based judgment | Qualifying award filing; trial-demand period expired without qualifying demand | Judgment entry | Civil-judgment force/effect, with specified review restriction | No automatic collection or complete postjudgment-remedy conclusion | C078–C080; S007 |
| Trial de novo | Party’s qualifying written demand after §657(a) filing | Filed written demand; applicable service procedure | Action restored and treated as unreferred | Statutory 30-day period; evidentiary exceptions; extension questions held | C081–C090; S007, S025 |
| Earlier preserved arbitration program | Program actually satisfying §654(d)’s legislative predicate | Earlier statutory/local framework as legally applicable | Potentially different compulsory-referral and cost provisions | Present application and interaction with repeal must be established | C092–C108; S004, S020–S023 |
| Private contractual arbitration or administrative ADR | Separate governing authority would be necessary | Unexamined clause, statute, or process | No result established in this pass | Title 9 expressly unaffected; other frameworks held | C007, C019, C110; S001 |
Measurement ID · Source-stated quantity/unit and boundary · Trigger, actor, and exceptions · 41 data rows
| Measurement ID | Source-stated quantity/unit and boundary | Trigger, actor, and exceptions | Read bound and claim link |
|---|---|---|---|
| R060-P1-M001 | At least one ADR process: inclusive minimum of one process, not one guaranteed preferred process | District-court provision duty; §652 qualifications/exemptions | S002 §652(a)–(c); C014 |
| R060-P1-M002 | $150,000 money damages; exclusion is strictly greater than, so equality alone does not trigger (a)(3) | Relief sought in current §654 referral; all other predicates remain | S004 §654(a)(3); C054–C060 |
| R060-P1-M003 | Presumption of damages not in excess of $150,000 | Court may presume unless counsel certifies excess; not a valuation adjudication | S004 §654(c); C059 |
| R060-P1-M004 | 30 days after award filing; written demand within the period | Any party; filing under §657(a), not service alone; counting/application qualifications remain | S007 §657(c)(1); C081, C086–C090 |
| R060-P1-M005 | Promptly after hearing conclusion; no fixed day count in §657(a) | Award and proof of specified service filed with referring clerk; filer not expressly assigned by that sentence | S007 §657(a); C077 |
| R060-P1-M006 | Until final judgment or other termination | Court’s local rule must prevent award disclosure to a potentially assigned judge | S007 §657(b); C080 |
| R060-P1-M007 | Appropriate stage; nonnumeric | Consideration duty through local rule, subject to exemptions/savings | S002 §652(a)–(c); C013–C017 |
| R060-P1-M008 | Until applicable Chapter 131 rules are adopted; event-based | Separate confidentiality, disqualification, and consent-procedure provisions; no universal adoption date found | S002 §652(d), S003 §653(b), S004 §654(b); C018, C032, C061 |
| R060-P1-M009 | Within third degree of relationship, using civil-law calculation | Specified relatives/spouses plus one of the listed roles/interests/witness conditions | S013 §455(b)(5), (d)(2); C040, C042 |
| R060-P1-M010 | Financial interest however small; no dollar safe harbor stated | Subject to all four §455(d)(4) exceptions and applicable (f) conditions | S013 §455(d)(4); C043–C045 |
| R060-P1-M011 | Before office duties; after assignment/substantial time for the distinct divestiture provision | Oath timing and §455(f) timing are separate; no actual performance/assignment shown | S012 §453; S013 §455(f); C034, C045 |
| R060-P1-M012 | Server at least 18 years; inclusive minimum | Rule 45 server must also be a nonparty | S025 Rule 45(b)(1); C066 |
| R060-P1-M013 | Fees for one day’s attendance, plus mileage allowed by law; amount unestablished | Attendance subpoena; specified United States/officer/agency tender exception | S025 Rule 45(b)(1); C066 |
| R060-P1-M014 | Within 100 miles; inclusive geographic boundary in the rule | Attendance/production anchors differ; separate within-state attendance alternatives and premises rule remain | S025 Rule 45(c); C067 |
| R060-P1-M015 | Objection before the earlier of compliance time or 14 days after service | Person commanded to produce/permit inspection; service of written objection; subsequent compulsion conditions | S025 Rule 45(d)(2)(B); C069 |
| R060-P1-M016 | Before service of specified pretrial production/inspection subpoena | Notice and copy to each party | S025 Rule 45(a)(4); C065 |
| R060-P1-M017 | Rule 6 day counting: exclude trigger day; count intermediate days; qualified inclusion of last day | Weekend/holiday continuation; clerk inaccessibility; contrary endpoint; court time zone for electronic filing | S025 Rule 6(a)(1), (3)–(6); C086 |
| R060-P1-M018 | Rule 6 hour counting: immediate start, every hour, qualified continuation when ending on weekend/holiday | Relevant only to a period stated in hours; §657 states days | S025 Rule 6(a)(2)–(3); read but no hour-based ADR deadline asserted |
| R060-P1-M019 | Three additional days, only for specified service-triggered acts/methods | Rule 6(d), after otherwise computed expiration; no automatic addition to award-filing trigger | S025 Rule 6(d); C088 |
| R060-P1-M020 | General motion notice at least 14 days; opposing affidavit ordinarily at least seven days | Rule 6(c)’s ex parte/different-rule/order exceptions; supporting affidavit with motion; Rule 59(c)/court-permission qualification | S025 Rule 6(c); C089. Not a universal arbitration-hearing interval |
| R060-P1-M021 | Emergency declaration no more than 90 days per declaration | Judicial Conference findings/designation; early termination and additional declarations permitted | S025 Rule 87(a)–(b); C090 |
| R060-P1-M022 | Emergency extension no more than 30 days after order entry | Listed posttrial motions under Rule 87(c)(2), not an express §657 demand provision; no declaration/order established | S025 Rule 87(c)(2); S026; C090 |
| R060-P1-M023 | $100,000 or lower court-set amount, inclusive ceiling, excluding interest/costs | Former compulsory route; only money damages; designated statutory court category and exceptions | S020 former §652(a)(1)(B); C092 |
| R060-P1-M024 | Former presumption not over $100,000 | Court presumption unless counsel certifies more; historical provision | S020 former §652(a)(2); C092 |
| R060-P1-M025 | Former higher local limit not more than $150,000 | Local rule in effect November 19, 1988, and specified statutory category; §901(c) repealed in 1998 | S020 §901(c); S019 §12(a); C106 |
| R060-P1-M026 | Former hearing start no later than 180 days after answer filing | Court-specified start; stated motion/consent qualifications; good-cause modification | S020 former §653(b); C095 |
| R060-P1-M027 | Former hearing ordinarily not before 30 days after disposition of specified timely motions | Absence of party consent; court-defined motion-filing window; good-cause modification | S020 former §653(b); C095 |
| R060-P1-M028 | Former trial demand within 30 days after award filing | Written party demand; historic provisions and preservation predicate | S020 former §655(a); C096 |
| R060-P1-M029 | Former deposit equal to paid arbitrator fees; no fee amount supplied | Local rule; statutory deposit exceptions; refund/no-tax conditions | S020 former §655(d); C097 |
| R060-P1-M030 | “More favorable” versus “substantially more favorable”: distinct qualitative comparisons, no percentage supplied | Former (d) refund exception versus former (e)’s separate bad-faith cost/fee provision; (e) excludes interest/costs from judgment comparison | S020 former §655(d)–(e); C097–C098 |
| R060-P1-M031 | Ten additional districts in former authorization structure | Judicial Conference approval and notice to FJC/public; no roster examined | S020 former §658(2); C092 |
| R060-P1-M032 | Title IX effectiveness 180 days after enactment; original repeal five years after enactment | Enactment November 19, 1988; pre-repeal referrals had final-disposition preservation; later legislation changes the repeal | S020 §§906–907; C102 |
| R060-P1-M033 | Historical sunset replaced with December 31, 1994; restoration on/after December 14, 1993 | S021 express language; repealer subsequently removed by S022 | S021 §§1(a), 2; S022 §3(b); C103–C104 |
| R060-P1-M034 | Original authorization: fiscal year ending September 30, 1989, plus four, later seven, succeeding fiscal years; then 1994–1997; then each fiscal year | Institutional funding authorization only; no appropriation or actual allocation inferred | S020 §905; S021 §1(b); S022 §3(a); S023 §1; C103–C107 |
| R060-P1-M035 | AO report annual; FJC report not later than five years after enactment | Institutional reporting duties, not litigant deadlines or proof reports were completed | S020 §903; C101 |
| R060-P1-M036 | Programs in place on October 30, 1998 | §651(c) effectiveness review/improvement duty; not automatically §654(d)’s entire test | S001 §651(c); S019; C010, C108 |
| R060-P1-M037 | National rule transmission no later than May 1; effectiveness no earlier than December 1 that year | Supreme Court; unless law provides otherwise; pending-case and privilege qualifications in §2074 | S017–S018; C028 |
| R060-P1-M038 | Compensation per case, amount if any; transportation base is actual necessarily incurred expense | Court action subject to the specified regulations; no rate/amount established | S008 §658(a)–(b); C049–C053 |
| R060-P1-M039 | 1974 note: proceedings commenced/fully submitted before December 5, 1974; 1979 amendments: qualifying deprivations after December 29, 1979 | Different application tests. The former’s original §3 OCR remains incomplete; the latter’s original was read | S013/S024; S036 §3; C046, C057 |
| R060-P1-M040 | §453 note states 90 days after December 1, 1990 | Compiler’s effective-date note; original amendment/effective instrument not separately authenticated; no date computed | S012 note; source-history gap |
| R060-P1-M041 | Rule 5 uses reasonable time and specified completion events, rather than a universal number of days | Filing/certificates, mail, electronic sending/filing, and other consented delivery have different conditions | S025 Rule 5(b), (d); C084–C085 |
Branch ID and status · Supported conditional rule; cumulative predicates; claim/source links · Missing predicate or authority · 24 data rows
| Branch ID and status | Supported conditional rule; cumulative predicates; claim/source links | Missing predicate or authority | Adverse inference to avoid | Next permissible generic public-law inquiry |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| R060-P1-B001 — Governing court/proceeding unknown. Public rule answered; classification held. | Chapter 44 addresses district courts and civil actions, expressly including bankruptcy adversary proceedings. C005–C006; S001, S009, S025 Rule 81(a)(2). | Statutory court category and proceeding classification. | Every federal forum or bankruptcy matter is covered. | Examine only generic statutory/rule definitions distinguishing an adversary proceeding from other bankruptcy matters if that classification becomes necessary. |
| B002 — Underlying federal jurisdiction unknown. Partial. | A referral concerns an action pending before the court; Rule 82 does not enlarge jurisdiction. C008, C056–C057; S004, S011, S025. | Applicable jurisdictional basis and its predicates. | ADR availability creates federal jurisdiction over a debt dispute. | A separately bounded inquiry could examine the public jurisdictional statute relevant to a generic category; no actual claim classification follows here. |
| B003 — Local implementing rule unexamined. National authority answered; local contents excluded. | Program/local-rule duties operate under §2071 and Rule 83. C009, C020–C025; S001, S010, S025. | Valid adoption, text, effective date, and scope of any implementing rule. | The federal command proves a particular local requirement. | Determine from national public rulemaking authority what conditions govern adoption and amendment; retain district-specific text as held. |
| B004 — Consideration/participation versus settlement. Answered. | Consideration and authorized required use do not establish agreement on terms. C013–C019; S002. | Any separate source governing agreement formation/authority. | Attendance or consideration equals settlement consent. | Ask whether any later generic national enactment expressly adds a settlement-outcome duty; do not investigate actual assent. |
| B005 — Arbitration consent absent. Rule answered; actual consent held. | Current referral requires consent and safeguards, subject to §654(d). C054, C061–C062; S004. | Applicable statutory route and legally sufficient consent procedure/evidence. | Silence, attendance, or consent to mediation proves arbitration consent; or every preserved program necessarily requires consent. | Examine generic national instruments implementing §654(b), while keeping actual consent records excluded. |
| B006 — Facilitation versus adjudicative effect. Answered within text. | ADR definition includes facilitation; Chapter 44’s award/judgment mechanism is specifically arbitration. C004, C019, C077–C083; S001, S007. | Separate law governing any resulting agreement. | A mediated discussion automatically creates an award or judgment. | Identify the generic statutory boundary between an agreement and a Chapter 44 award without analyzing an actual agreement. |
| B007 — Covered/excluded claim category unknown. Rule answered; classification held. | Current exclusions separately address constitutional-right allegations and jurisdiction wholly/partly under §1343. C055–C057; S004, S011, S036. | Legal characterization and jurisdictional basis. | A low amount defeats those exclusions, or every civil-rights label has identical treatment. | Read any indispensable generic incorporated civil-rights text only if a further classification component is authorized. |
| B008 — Monetary boundary unknown. Rule answered; measurement unresolved. | Current exclusion is money damages greater than $150,000; equality alone does not trigger it. C058–C060; S004; M002–M003. | Character of relief, valuation, aggregation, interest/cost treatment, and certification predicate. | Cap equals total debt, affordability, or a jurisdictional minimum; old exclusions of interest/costs automatically apply. | Check for a later public enactment or national rule expressly defining valuation/aggregation under §654(a)(3). Judicial reconciliation remains held. |
| B009 — Preserved earlier program unknown. Partial. | §654(d) preserves a program satisfying the referenced legislative predicate. Earlier compulsory/consent structures differ. C062, C092–C108; S004, S019–S023. | Legal qualification under preservation clause and interaction with later changes. | A program’s age or “arbitration” label establishes grandfathering. | Examine only later generic legislation or rulemaking addressing §654(d); no actual program or court lookup. |
| B010 — Neutral qualification unknown. Public standard answered; actual qualification held. | Local selection processes, qualified/trained “should” language, and mandatory arbitrator certification are distinct. C030–C034; S003, S005, S012. | Applicable standards and actual satisfaction. | Availability, professional title, or claimed experience proves statutory qualification. | Authenticate any national generic training/certification standard implementing these sections. |
| B011 — Conflict/waiver unknown. Public provisions answered; application held. | §455 includes grounds, definitions, exceptions, nonwaivable grounds, limited waiver, and conditional divestiture. C035–C046; S013, S020, S024. | Legally relevant relationship/interest/knowledge/timing and applicable local neutral standard. | Any consent cures every conflict; any divestiture always cures disqualification. | Resolve the original §3 OCR gap or examine a later generic statutory amendment; no person/interest inquiry. |
| B012 — Compensation/costs unknown. Partial. | Compensation is conditional on regulations; transportation reimbursement is permissive. Historical principles are expressly nonmandatory. C049–C053, C091, C097–C100; S008, S020, S027. | Current national regulations, applicable cost authority, and any authorized local rule. | ADR is always free; a historical rate is a national current fee; inability to pay automatically proves a waiver. | Authenticate the current public Guide compensation regulation and AO transportation regulations, if publicly accessible. |
| B013 — Confidentiality/award access unknown. Public text answered; complete regime unresolved. | Confidentiality-rule duty, restricted judge access, and trial-evidence exceptions are different provisions. C018, C080, C083; S002, S007. | Applicable national/local rules and evidentiary conditions. | All communications are privileged against all persons; every award is publicly sealed forever. | Check generic Chapter 131 rulemaking for implementing confidentiality rules; full privilege merits remain held. |
| B014 — Notice/service predicates absent. Public rules answered; events held. | Award-service proof, Rule 5 demand service where applicable, and Rule 45 subpoena notice/service have different actors and conditions. C065–C066, C077, C084–C085; S007, S025. | Applicable procedure, qualifying service/filing event, recipient category, and method. | One notice satisfies all service obligations, or service alone starts §657’s filing-triggered period. | Examine generic national provisions addressing the particular kind of paper, without preparing or serving one. |
| B015 — Hearing timing/record unknown. Partial. | Current chapter supplies no universal hearing-start/transcript rule; earlier §653(b) has qualified timing. C047, C063–C076, C095; S005–S006, S020, S025. | Current versus preserved route, applicable procedural authority, and event predicates. | The historical 180-day rule or a deposition recording provision applies to every ADR session. | Check later generic statutes/rules for an express arbitration-hearing timing or record requirement. |
| B016 — Award filed versus judgment entered. Answered; actual event held. | Award filing and judgment entry are separate; entry follows the statutory trial-demand opportunity. C077–C081; S007. | Qualifying award/service-proof filing, demand status, and entry event. | An award announcement is already a collectible judgment. | Examine generic statutory text addressing the legal effect of deficient award filing; actual records remain excluded. |
| B017 — Trial-demand timing/exceptions unknown. Partial. | Written demand within 30 days after qualifying award filing; Rule 6 distinctions apply only within their scope. C081, C086–C090; S007, S025–S026. | Trigger validity, governing procedural system, counting facts, and authority concerning enlargement. | Automatic 33 days; a court extension is guaranteed; receipt is the statutory trigger. | Look for an express later statute/national rule addressing §657(c)(1) extension or defective-filing effects; do not calculate a calendar. |
| B018 — Consequences/cost allocation of demand. Public comparison answered; application held. | Current restoration/evidence rules differ from historical fee/deposit and bad-faith provisions. C082–C083, C091, C096–C100; S007, S014, S020. | Applicable route, legally effective cost rule, favorability/good-cause/bad-faith predicates. | Demand is always costless, or failure to improve an award always generates attorney fees. | Determine whether later generic legislation expressly preserves or changes the former cost provisions. |
| B019 — Cross-reference/history authentication. Partial. | Referenced 1988/1993/1994/1997/1998 instruments were read; §654(d)’s stray word and interaction issues remain visible. C062, C102–C108; S019–S023. | Judicial reconciliation and complete later history. | Editorial correction alone settles substantive preservation; repealed §901(c) is current authority. | Check later enacted text expressly clarifying §654(d) or §12(a), without searching opinions/cases. |
| B020 — Standing-order authority unknown. National rule answered; actual directive excluded. | Rule 83(b) permits consistent practice regulation, with actual-notice protection for otherwise unstated requirements. C020–C025; S010, S025. | Nature, authority, consistency, and actual notice of any directive. | A generic reference to a standing order proves its existence, validity, or applicability. | Examine generic national rules distinguishing local rules from judge-specific practice regulation. |
| B021 — Enforceability/collection unknown. Statutory effect answered; remedies held. | §657(a) specifies force/effect and a review restriction for the judgment so entered. C078–C079, C109–C110; S007. | Actual entry and separate enforcement/remedy predicates. | Statutory judgment language proves payment, executable assets, or lack of every possible remedy. | A separately authorized generic judgment-enforcement component would be required; no collection inquiry in this pass. |
| B022 — Latest original/currentness gap. Partial. | K bodies are accessible; newer paths failed; table check is bounded. Proposed rule material is not operative. C001–C003; S025, S028–S034. | Complete later session-law/rulemaking chain and some original amendment bodies. | Host timestamp or failed access proves law is unchanged or absent. | Recheck official current section bodies and public-law classification/enactment materials through the later check date. |
| B023 — Private FAA/administrative/other forum. Excluded with reason. | Chapter 44 definition and Title 9 savings clause do not establish another process’s law. C004, C007, C110; S001. | Separate governing public law and permitted scope. | Chapter 44 demand/review rules govern every arbitration clause or agency proceeding. | Separate authorization would be needed for the broader FAA or administrative ADR framework. |
| B024 — Funding versus entitlement. Answered; actual funding excluded. | Program support and appropriations authorization do not prove appropriations, allocation, free services, or settlement payment. C012, C049–C053, C107; S001, S008, S019–S023, S027. | Actual appropriation and applicable generic compensation authority; award/program facts held. | “Authorized” means funded or payable to a litigant. | Examine a public appropriations provision only if needed for a consequential generic funding claim; no grantee/program/award search. |
Field · Evidence entry · Authority entry · 55 data rows
| Field | Evidence entry | Authority entry | Analysis entry | Result entry |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Source issuer and title | ||||
| Literal public source URL | ||||
| Exact section/rule/clause | ||||
| Printed page | ||||
| Zero-based PDF index | ||||
| Compilation/version | ||||
| Enactment/adoption date | ||||
| Effective/application trigger | ||||
| Actual access date and timezone | ||||
| Operative/historical/proposed/unknown status | ||||
| Complete versus selected read bounds | ||||
| Original-access failure | ||||
| Ordinary official alternate | ||||
| Statutory court category | ||||
| Statutory proceeding category | ||||
| Underlying jurisdictional authority | ||||
| Bankruptcy/adversary boundary | ||||
| Implementing-rule authority | ||||
| Rule-adoption/effectiveness condition | ||||
| Exemption or exclusion | ||||
| Consideration duty | ||||
| Participation duty | ||||
| Process category | ||||
| Consent predicate | ||||
| Consent safeguard | ||||
| Current versus preserved statutory route | ||||
| Monetary characterization/boundary | ||||
| Neutral-selection standard | ||||
| Training/qualification standard | ||||
| Arbitrator certification/oath requirement | ||||
| Disqualification ground | ||||
| Definition/exception/waiver/divestiture | ||||
| Compensation authority | ||||
| Transportation-reimbursement authority | ||||
| Cost/deposit/fee-shifting authority | ||||
| Confidentiality authority | ||||
| Award-access limitation | ||||
| Hearing/subpoena authority | ||||
| Notice/service actor and condition | ||||
| Hearing-record requirement | ||||
| Award-making condition | ||||
| Award-filing and service-proof condition | ||||
| Judgment-entry condition | ||||
| Trial-demand form and actor | ||||
| Trial-demand trigger and unit | ||||
| Counting/extension exception | ||||
| Trial-restoration/evidence consequence | ||||
| Historical transition/savings condition | ||||
| Review/remedy question unresolved | ||||
| Local-rule/standing-order boundary | ||||
| Other-law boundary | ||||
| Missing public authority | ||||
| Missing factual predicate | ||||
| Adverse inference to avoid | ||||
| Next permissible generic public-law inquiry |
Question/material subquestion · Status · Findings and claim/source/branch links · 41 data rows
| Question/material subquestion | Status | Findings and claim/source/branch links | Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 — Complete §§651–658 bodies | Answered as accessible official text | C002, C004–C019, C030–C033, C047–C050, C054–C083; S001–S008; B001–B018 | No missing body among the eight accessible sections. Later currentness remains separately qualified. |
| 1 — Issuer, organization, compilation, check date | Answered | C001–C003; source register; S028–S035 | No unseen UI/model provenance asserted. |
| 1 — Latest operative chain through access date | Partial | C001; S028–S029, S033–S034; B022 | Reopen newer official bodies and examine later public-law materials. Classification metadata is not exhaustive proof. |
| 1 — Definition of ADR | Answered | C004, C007; S001 §651(a), (e); B006, B023 | Other statutes’ ADR definitions remain outside scope. |
| 1 — Courts, civil actions, bankruptcy/adversary scope | Answered at statutory level; classification unresolved | C005–C008; S001, S004, S009, S025 Rule 81(a)(2); B001–B002 | No actual court or proceeding classification. Further inquiry limited to generic definitions. |
| 1 — Program versus settlement/private arbitration/administrative ADR/adjudication | Answered as boundary | C004, C007, C019, C077–C083; B006, B023 | Other regimes and agreement formation remain held. |
| 2 — Authorization/development/implementation/local rules | Answered | C009–C012, C020–C029; S001, S010, S015–S018, S025–S026; B003, B020 | No district-specific implementation examined. |
| 2 — Administration/designation | Answered | C011–C012; S001 §651(d)–(f) | No designated person, actual staffing, or performance inquiry. |
| 2 — Consideration versus participation | Answered | C013–C017; S002; B004–B005 | Actual rule scope and exemptions held. |
| 2 — Exceptions/exemptions/federal litigation authority | Answered | C016–C017, C054; S002, S004 | No actual category exemption or representative authority established. |
| 2 — Confidentiality and national/local distinction | Partial | C018, C028, C080, C083; S002, S007, S017; B013 | Authenticate any implementing national rules; full privilege/local regime held. |
| 2 — Compelled settlement/outcome/debt-specific right | Answered by bounded text examination | C019; S001–S008, S019 §2; B004, B006, B024 | Broader private-enforcement or judicial-power theories excluded. |
| 2 — Indispensable generic rule and unexamined remainder | Answered with explicit bounds | C023–C029, C063–C075, C084–C090; S025 read bounds | Full civil procedure, local practice, and unrelated rule provisions remain excluded. |
| 3 — Neutral selection/availability/training | Answered | C030–C032; S003; B010 | No roster, availability, credential, or training fact. |
| 3 — Arbitrator certification/oath/powers | Answered | C033–C034, C047; S005, S012 | No actual certification, oath, referral, or hearing location. |
| 3 — Disqualification/conflicts and nested exceptions | Answered current body; historical authentication partial | C035–C046; S013, S020, S024; B011 | Original 1974 §3 OCR and complete ancillary amendment history remain limited. |
| 3 — Immunity | Answered at express statutory level | C048; S005 §655(c) | Scope of protections under other law and actual immunity determination held. |
| 3 — Compensation/transportation/costs | Partial | C049–C053, C091, C097–C100; S008, S014, S020, S027; B012 | Current complete regulations and later history not authenticated. |
| 3 — Separate substantive cross-reference dossiers | Excluded with reason | C057, C066, C083, C099–C100; B023 | Full §1985 merits, foreign subpoena law, Evidence Rules, fee statutes, and 18 U.S.C. §§201–211 exceed the narrow predicates used. |
| 4 — Current arbitration authorization/consent | Answered subject to preservation qualification | C054, C061–C062; S004; B005, B009 | Actual route and consent absent. |
| 4 — Covered/excluded categories and monetary boundary | Answered text; edge characterization unresolved | C055–C060; S004, S011, S036; B007–B008; M002–M003 | Mixed relief, aggregation, and disputed valuation require further authority. |
| 4 — Independent subject-matter jurisdiction | Boundary answered; merits excluded | C008, C056–C057; S004, S011, S025 Rule 82; B002 | No jurisdictional dossier or actual claim. |
| 4 — Selection, hearing powers, subpoenas, notice, record | Answered statutory/rule text; actual implementation held | C030–C048, C063–C076; S003, S005–S006, S025; B010–B015 | No local hearing notice or transcript requirement authenticated. |
| 4 — Award filing/service proof | Answered | C077; S007 §657(a); B014, B016; M005 | Actual service/filing and deficient-record effects unresolved. |
| 4 — Sealing/disclosure/evidence | Answered exact provisions; broader regime held | C018, C073, C080, C083; B013 | No universal privilege/public-sealing conclusion. |
| 4 — Judgment effect and review restriction | Answered express text; full remedies excluded | C078–C079; S007; B016, B021 | Issuing-court relief, constitutional issues, appeal after trial, and collection remain held. |
| 4 — Trial demand: actor/form/trigger/period/service | Answered ordinary text; application partial | C081–C090; S007, S025–S026; B014, B017; M004, M017–M022 | Actual trigger, governing procedural system, and enlargement authority not established. |
| 4 — Demand/no-demand consequences and costs | Answered provision-specific comparison; application held | C078–C083, C091, C096–C100; B016, B018 | No actual judgment, demand, fee rule, favorability, or bad-faith finding. |
| 4 — FAA confirmation/vacatur and collection | Excluded with reason | C007, C079, C110; B021, B023 | Separate frameworks cannot be imported from the word “arbitration.” |
| 5 — 1988 enacted framework and application clauses | Answered selected complete Title IX | C092–C102; S020; M023–M035 | No actual court/program classification; whole omnibus Act not claimed read. |
| 5 — 1993 restoration/extension | Answered with format qualification | C103; S021; M033–M034 | Enacted PDF numeral garble resolved through grouped official enrolled text and later enacted quotation. |
| 5 — 1994 repeal of repealer | Answered | C104; S022 §3 | Initial route failed; ordinary official alternate read. |
| 5 — 1997 referenced amendment | Answered | C105; S023 §1 | Its narrow funding function is preserved. |
| 5 — 1998 rewrite/repeal/authorization | Answered whole Act | C106–C107; S019 §§1–12 | No special pending-case interpretation inferred. |
| 5 — Preserved-program clause and stray cross-reference word | Partial | C062, C108–C109; S004, S019–S023; B009, B019 | Judicial reconciliation and complete later chain remain held; next inquiry is later generic enacted clarification. |
| 5 — Original national-rule amendment chain | Partial | C003, C029; S025–S026, S032 | 2023 original order read; 2013 original inserted pages not readable; 2007/2018 full original chains not audited. |
| 6 — Source-linked mechanism comparison | Answered | Section 3; C004–C110 | Every mechanism remains conditional; no actual result. |
| 6 — At least 16 substantive branches | Answered: 24 branches | B001–B024, each with status, C/S links, missing predicates, adverse inference, and next inquiry | Branches contain no invented case or person. |
| 7 — Wholly blank worksheet | Answered | Section 6 | All evidence, authority-entry, analysis, and result cells blank. |
| 7 — Measurement register; no invented model/calendar | Answered | M001–M041 | No actual quantity or due date calculated. |
| 7 — Complete visible tables, read/failure log, gaps, self-check | Answered, with disclosed research limits | Sections 1–9 | No independent-review, parent-acceptance, or publication-acceptance claim. |
Log ID · Source/read action · Result and exact limit · 16 data rows
| Log ID | Source/read action | Result and exact limit |
|---|---|---|
| L001 | S001–S008 official section bodies | Complete eight-section bodies and material displayed notes read; successful ordinary official pages, K compilation. |
| L002 | S033 legacy OLRC paths | Chapter granule route unavailable; section query/granule and chapter-path routes returned unavailable/404 results. No substantive proposition relies on those failures. |
| L003 | S034 newer-version routes; S028–S029 currency/table | Newer target bodies inaccessible; currency and bounded classification material accessible. No equation of failure with absent law. |
| L004 | S019 1998 Act | Whole six-page Act parsed and read. Screenshot attempt did not provide inspectable pixels; no visual certification. |
| L005 | S020 1988 omnibus Act | Complete selected Title IX plus the identified rulemaking/disqualification provisions read; remainder not claimed read. Statutory enumeration was read as law, not used for court/program selection. |
| L006 | S021 1993 Act and ordinary alternatives | Enacted PDF read with one garbled numeral; GovInfo enrolled text successfully supplied that numeral. Failed alternatives: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-103publ192/html/PLAW-103publ192.htm and https://www.congress.gov/103/bills/s1732/BILLS-103s1732enr.pdf. No gate bypass. |
| L007 | S022 1994 Act | Initial route https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-103publ420/pdf/PLAW-103publ420.pdf was inaccessible. Statutes at Large alternate succeeded; complete §3 and approval line read. |
| L008 | Compensation/travel public-authority search | S027’s complete generic ADR compensation action read. A current complete Guide provision and AO transportation regulation were not authenticated. Historical rate excerpts and out-of-scope local-program hits were not adopted or followed. |
| L009 | S024 1974 disqualification Act | Retrieved original has OCR problems in the first printed-page header and part of §3. Current §455 and its complete statutory note were read; original §3 authentication remains partial. |
| L010 | S025 national rules | Complete and selected portions precisely listed in source register read. The remainder of the 142-page compilation was not certified as read. No blank or completed court form inspected. |
| L011 | S026 2023 amendment order | Adoption/effectiveness order, Rule 6 amendment, and complete Rule 87 attachment read. Other amended rules not analyzed. |
| L012 | S032 2013 amendment materials | GPO PDF accessible, but inserted substantive pages were not exposed as readable body text. Supreme Court XML was unsupported; attempted PDF route inaccessible. No claim to unseen original text or pixels. |
| L013 | S030–S031 proposed-rule status | Material official status sections read. Draft-package substance was not used; projected dates were not treated as enacted effectiveness. |
| L014 | Generic search exclusions | Search results incidentally included out-of-scope local-program and judicial-case material. No case, docket, party, neutral, roster, or actual-program query was made; those result bodies were not opened or used as authority. |
| L015 | S036 1979 application provision | Whole one-page original read, including the strict “after enactment” application condition. |
| L016 | Source grouping | Alternate formats, repeated opens, Code restatements, and enrolled/enacted text were grouped by role. They were not represented as multiple independent confirmations of one proposition. |
Check · Researcher’s assessment · 10 data rows
| Check | Researcher’s assessment |
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| Fresh foundation | Earlier conversation reports and separate-project conclusions were not used as legal premises. |
| Principal bodies | All eight accessible official section bodies were read, including exceptions and material displayed notes. |
| Arbitration preservation | §654(d) was retained; the earlier enacted framework was read before making consent, amount, timing, or cost comparisons. |
| Mandatory versus permissive wording | “Shall,” “may,” and “should” were distinguished, including certification, training, referral, reimbursement, and historical compensation principles. |
| Conditions and exceptions | Current exclusions, both trial-evidence exceptions, §455’s nested definitions/exceptions, and the earlier cost provisions’ cumulative predicates were preserved. |
| Quantities and triggers | Filing was distinguished from service; current and historical monetary language was separated; no actual deadline, fee, or financial result was calculated. |
| Source integrity | Failed originals, readable alternatives, parsing limitations, selected read bounds, and compilation/effectiveness differences remain visible. |
| Scope compliance | No actual case, party, neutral, roster, provider, program, agreement, award, or docket investigation was undertaken; no operative document was drafted or transmitted. |
| Worksheet | All evidence, authority-entry, analysis, and result cells remain genuinely blank. |
| Review/acceptance | This is the researcher’s self-check only. It is not independent review and establishes no component, A060/parent, operational, or publication acceptance. |
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