Congress mandated federal agencies and district courts to develop ADR programs

Evidence

During the 1970s, legal reformers began to propose that less formal forums be created outside the courts to help solve the problems of heavy caseloads, costly justice, and ineffectiveness in settling disputes. In recent years this movement for “alternative dispute*resolution”-or ADR, as it is usually called-has enjoyed considerable success. In 1990, Congress enacted the Administrative Dispute Resolution Act, which requires federal agencies to consider ADR for settling disputes; and in 1998, it enacted the Alternative Dispute Resolution Act, requiring district courts to establish ADR programs. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2337

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to course material on the institutional structure of American dispute resolution beyond adjudication, and to caseload-driven court reform debates. — connects to: Congress mandated federal agencies and district courts adopt ADR programs in the 1990s — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1163; Congress steadily delegates private claims adjudication to courts and agencies — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 2294
• DEFINE: Introduces ‘alternative dispute resolution (ADR)’ as the umbrella term for court-avoiding forums.

Broader Connections

• Congress steadily delegates private claims adjudication to courts and agencies #corroborates (1.00) — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process, 2294