Answer to Question 1
Real goods
Answer to Question 2
Each federal court is tasked with its own administrative functions, including hiring, budgets, and maintaining court records. The clerk handles most of the administrative responsibilities.
Regional councils are charged with making all the necessary orders for the administration of justice within the circuit.
Nationally, the Judicial Conference of the United States is the main policy-making body of Federal Judiciary.
District court caseloads are the largest and Table 3-1 summarizes the workload.
The court of appeals caseload has also been on the increase, while the Supreme Court still only addresses approximately 100 cases each year. Figure 3-5 again outlines the caseloads for the appellate court.