---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 476"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "476"
heading: "Enhancement of judicial information dissemination"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/476"
units:
  - "Part I — Organization of Courts"
  - "Chapter 23 — Civil Justice Expense and Delay Reduction Plans"
---

# §476. Enhancement of judicial information dissemination

- (a) The Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts shall prepare a semiannual report, available to the public, that discloses for each judicial officer—
  - (1) the number of motions that have been pending for more than six months and the name of each case in which such motion has been pending;
  - (2) the number of bench trials that have been submitted for more than six months and the name of each case in which such trials are under submission; and
  - (3) the number and names of cases that have not been terminated within three years after filing.
- (b) To ensure uniformity of reporting, the standards for categorization or characterization of judicial actions to be prescribed in accordance with [section 481 of this title](/usc/28/481.md) shall apply to the semiannual report prepared under [subsection (a)](#a).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 101–650, title I, § 103(a), Dec. 1, 1990, 104 Stat. 5093.)