Thursday, February 2, 2012

Court statistics

The Judicial Council released its 2011 Court Statistics report, available here.  Brad Pauley and the gang at At the Lectern have crunched the numbers at the Cal. Supreme Court.  Their conclusions are invaluable to appellate lawyers seeking high court review.  Read them here.

What about the 4/3?  Here's one nugget.  The Statewide average median time from Notice of Appeal to Filed Opinion for the civil cases at the Court of Appeal is 438 days.

Here at the 4/3?  Only 405.