In Re Approval of Judicial Emergency

Before: ALEX KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, PROCTER HUG, JR., SIDNEY R. THOMAS, RAYMOND C. FISHER, RONALD M. GOULD, and JOHNNIE B. RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges, AUDREY B. COLLINS, ROGER L. HUNT, and JAMES WARE, Chief District Judges, and STEPHEN M. McNAMEE and ROBERT H. WHALEY, District Judges.

PER CURIAM.

On January 20, 2011, Chief Judge Roslyn Silver declared a thirty day judicial emergency in the District of Arizona pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3174 (e). Finding no reasonably available remedy, the Judicial Council agreed to continue the judicial emergency for an additional one-year period and suspend the time limits of 18 U.S.C. § 3161 (c). The continued judicial emergency will end on February 19, 2012.

The attached Report of the Judicial Council of the Ninth Circuit Regarding a Judicial Emergency in the District of Arizona constitutes the findings of fact and conclusions of law of the Judicial Council justifying a declaration of judicial emergency pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3174 . This report was submitted to the Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. See 18 U.S.C. § 3174 (d).

On November 24, 2010, the late Chief District Judge John Roll initiated the process to declare a…