Whether the Speedy Trial Act's "ends of justice" provision, 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7)(A), permits open-ended continuances that lack a definite termination date, like in the First, Third, Sixth, and Tenth Circuits, or instead requires any ends-of-justice continuance to exclude time only for a specifically bounded period supported by contemporaneous findings, as the Second and Ninth Circuit hold.

Whether the Speedy Trial Act's 'ends of justice' provision permits open-ended continuances without a definite termination date