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
