10th Cir. R. 47.3: Judicial conference

(A) Authorization. As permitted by 28 U.S.C. § 333, a judicial conference will be convened every other year, at a time and place designated by the chief judge, or at another court-determined interval that the law permits. In alternate years, the circuit may hold a conference for judges only.

(B) Purpose. The conference will consider the business of the circuit’s federal courts and devise ways of improving the administration of justice within the circuit.

(C) Duties of circuit executive. The circuit executive, who serves as secretary of the conference, is responsible for all records and accounts of the conference, and may perform other conference duties as the chief judge or circuit judicial council may require.

(D) Agenda. During judicial conferences, all judges of the Tenth Circuit will meet to discuss the dockets and the administration of justice in the circuit’s judicial districts. The chief judge of each district will report on the condition of judicial business in that district and make recommendations about judicial business. In those years in which an open conference is held, all general meetings are open to attorney attendees and are devoted to improving the administration of justice in the Tenth Circuit.

(E) Registration fee. A registration fee, set by the judicial council, will be collected from each attorney attendee of the conference. The money collected must be used as directed by the chief judge to defray the expense of the conference. The circuit executive must maintain a judicial conference bank account and keep a record of all receipts and disbursements. During the year after each conference, the circuit executive must make a fiscal report to the judicial council.