---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 474"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "474"
heading: "Review of district court action"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/474"
units:
  - "Part I — Organization of Courts"
  - "Chapter 23 — Civil Justice Expense and Delay Reduction Plans"
---

# §474. Review of district court action

- (a)
  - (1) The [chief judge](/usc/28/351.md?p=c) of each district court in a circuit and the [chief judge](/usc/28/351.md?p=c) of the circuit shall, as a committee—
    - (A) review each plan and report submitted pursuant to [section 472(d) of this title](/usc/28/472.md?p=d); and
    - (B) make such suggestions for additional actions or modified actions of that district court as the committee considers appropriate for reducing cost and delay in civil litigation in the district court.
  - (2) The [chief judge](/usc/28/351.md?p=c) of a circuit may designate another [judge](/usc/28/351.md?p=d-1) of the court of appeals of that circuit, and the [chief judge](/usc/28/351.md?p=c) of a district court may designate another [judge](/usc/28/351.md?p=d-1) of such court, to perform that [chief judge](/usc/28/351.md?p=c)’s responsibilities under paragraph (1) of this subsection.
- (b) The Judicial Conference of the United States—
  - (1) shall review each plan and report submitted by a district court pursuant to [section 472(d) of this title](/usc/28/472.md?p=d); and
  - (2) may request the district court to take additional action if the Judicial Conference determines that such court has not adequately responded to the conditions relevant to the civil and criminal dockets of the court or to the recommendations of the district court’s advisory group.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 101–650, title I, § 103(a), Dec. 1, 1990, 104 Stat. 5093; amended Pub. L. 102–198, § 2(2), Dec. 9, 1991, 105 Stat. 1623.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1991—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 102–198, § 2(2)(A), substituted “chief judge” for “chief judges” and struck out “court of appeals for such” after “judge of the” in introductory provisions.

Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 102–198, § 2(2)(B), substituted “circuit may designate another judge of the court of appeals of that circuit,” for “court of appeals” and “court, to perform that” for “court to perform the”.