The reported statistics also demonstrate the success of congressional action in recent years. The U.S. magistrate system. which has an increasing number of fulltime magistrates. has been able to handle more cases. thus freeing judges for more bench time. For example. magistrates handled 13.978 misdemeanor immigration cases. a 43percent increase over the prior year. Marine personal injury cases declined by 15 percent. very -probably due to the amendments to the �Longshoremens and Harbor Workers Act passed by the 92d Congress. With the end of the war in Southeast Asia. selective service cases declined 40.8 percent and these cases will disappear by the end of the current year.
Keywords matched
immigration