Friday, August 27, 2021

9th Cir. 2020 Annual Report

The Ninth Circuit has posted its 2020 Annual Report

  • Nice memorial pages appear for Judges Farris and Fisher (pp. 19-22)
  • Ninth Circuit Holds First Virtual En Banc Sessions (pp. 43-44)
  • Stats are on pp. 60-63
  • The Ninth Circuit continued to be the nation’s busiest federal appellate court, accounting for 21.6% of all new appeals nationally.
  • The court’s overall reversal rate was 9.9%, compared to a national average of 8.8%. The reversal rate was 18.8% for criminal cases; 14.6% for civil cases involving the federal government and 13.7 for non-government civil cases; and 5.5% for administrative agency cases.
  • In the Ninth Circuit in FY 2020, the median time interval from filing of a notice of appeal to final disposition was 12.5 months