Construction of a Building for United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia, and the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia: Hearings Before the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, House of Representatives, Seventy-ninth Congress, First Session on H.R. 4719, a Bill to Provide for the Acquisition of a Site and for the Construction, Equipment, and Furnishing of a Building Thereon for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia, November 28, 29, 30, and December 4, 1945U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946 - 95 pages |
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Page 70 - Act, other than subsection (h) of section 1, shall apply in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Page 6 - Stat. 235) authorized an appropriation of $18,665,000 to construct, equip, and furnish a building for use of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia.
Page 88 - ... the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, Supreme Court Building, Washington, DC 20544.
Page 65 - Federal court" shall include the district courts of the United States and of the Territories and possessions to which this title is or may hereafter be applicable, the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia, and the United States Court of Alaska.
Page 6 - General storage 38, 900 The CHAIRMAN. I suggest that in hearing these witnesses, the first of whom will be the respective chief justices of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia, that they make their statements and then we interrogate, if that is agreeable to the committee. The first witness this morning is the Honorable D. Lawrence Groner, chief justice of the United States Court of Appeals for the...
Page 85 - The CHAIRMAN. Without objection, that may be done. (The matter referred to is as follows...
Page 24 - CHAIRMAN. The committee will recess until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. (Whereupon, at 12 noon, a recess was taken to...
Page 43 - It was so used for about 75 days, the "three- judge court" necessarily having to take recesses in order that the work of the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals might be regularly carried on. My understanding is that the building now occupied by the United States District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and the land upon which it stands is the property of the United States Government. The District of Columbia, as a governmental entity, of course, has no interest in our court or in a...
Page 1 - ... States to the extent of two-thirds of the cost thereof without interest within not more than five years from the date of any such expenditure. The title to the lands acquired hereunder shall vest in the United States but the development and administration...
Page 41 - ... following me, so I will thank you very much if you will hear him. The CHAIRMAN. Thank you very much, Mr. Chief Justice. Chief Justice LAWS. Thank you so much. The CHAIRMAN. We shall be very glad at this time to have a statement from the Honorable Finis J. Garrett, the presiding, judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals. Judge Garrett had a long and distinguished career as a member of the House, and it is a pleasure to have him before us this morning in connection with the...