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Excerpt from The Court Arbitration Authorization Act of 1993: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and Judicial Administration of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, on H. R. 1102, the Court Arbitration Authorization Act of 1993, Ma The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:08 a.m., in room 2237, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. William J. Hughes (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Representatives William J. Hughes, Don Edwards, Carlos J. Moorhead, Howard Coble, F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr., and Bill McCollum. Also present: Hayden W. Gregory, counsel; Edward O'Connell, assistant counsel; Phyllis Henderson, secretary; and Joseph V.Wolfe, minority counsel. Opening Statement Of Chairman Hughes Mr. Hughes. The Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and Judicial Administration will come to order. Good morning and welcome to the hearing of the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and Judicial Administration on H.R. 1102, the Court Arbitration Authorization Act of 1993. In conjunction with our discussion of H.R.1102, we will also be discussing what is happening in alternative dispute programs, generally, in the Federal courts under the aegis of the Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990. Today's hearing is a followup to an oversight hearing we held last May. The existing authorization for pilot court-annexed arbitration expires on November 19, 1993.The purpose of last year's hearing was to begin consideration of the future of the program after that particular date. H.R. 1102 would remove the sunset and authorize all Federal courts to adopt in their discretion local rules for arbitration to be either mandatory or voluntary. Court-annexed arbitration is only one of a number of alternative dispute resolution programs available to the courts. We will also hear testimony today regarding other model dispute resolution programs that have grown out of the Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990, which emanated from this subcommittee. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.