For 9th Circuit watchers, none of this will be new or newsworthy.
- the overall reversal rate was 8.3% (cf. the nat'l average is 6.7%)
- civil appeal reversal rate (not including gov cases) = 19.7%
- civil cases involving the government = 6.8%
- 11.5% for original proceedings
- 8.3% in agency appeals
- median time from notice of appeal to disposition = 13.3 months
- median time from reply brief to submission or argument = 8.7 months
- median time for panel decisions after argument = 1.2 months
- workload for the 9th Cir. held steady
- District courts account for 61% of appeals (the 4 Cal districts accounted for 64% of new civil appeals)
- BIA appeals are 30.3%
- prisoner petitions & immigration cases predominate the docket
- pro pers filed 52% of all new appeals
- the court has 29 judges (a full complement) for the first time in its history
- 16 senior status 9th Cir. judges worked on matters
- the Circuit is live-streaming audio & video of all arguments
- all 11 courtrooms in the 4 9th Cir. courthouses have video
- one each in SF, PAS & Portland have high-def! (So you can see every bead of sweat...)
- the Appellate Lawyer representatives created a free practice guide
- Active judges can have up to 4 law clerks (Sr.'s get 3) and the most represented schools were Yale, Stanford and Harvard
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