The Nation - News from Aug. 22, 1985

Chief Justice Warren E. Burger urged lawyers to use arbitration and mediation to reduce the backlog of cases in federal and state courts. Burger said at a meeting of the American Arbitration Assn. in St. Paul, Minn., that “a host of new kinds of cases have flooded the courts,” including disputes over welfare losses, students’ grades and teachers’ tenure. He said litigation on such cases denies parties a quick resolution and enlarges “the costs, tensions and delays facing all other litigants waiting in line.”