Supreme Court
• The Supreme Court issued 59 written opinions during the year. • Filings totaled 6,522, and dispositions totaled 6,311. • Automatic appeals arising out of judgments of death totaled 12 cases, and the court disposed of 22 such appeals by written opinion. • The Supreme Court ordered 28 Court of Appeal opinions depublished in this fiscal year.
16% of Petitions for review were granted overall. But only 5% in civil matters (5% civil appeals; 6% for civil writs). Criminal had a 20% grant rate (21% in criminal appeals, 8% for criminal writs, 15% for habeas corpus). Zero rehearings were granted (which is true for every year from 2012 to 2021, expect for one granted in 2015).
Courts of Appeal
• Total contested matters for the Courts of Appeal totaled 15,781, made up of 10,171 records of appeal and 5,610 original proceedings. • Dispositions in the Courts of Appeal totaled 20,159. Of these dispositions, 14,682 were appeals and 6,024 were original proceedings. • Dispositions of appeals by written opinion totaled 9,147, appeals disposed of without written opinion totaled 3,397, and appeals disposed of without a record filed totaled 2,137. Dispositions of original proceedings by written opinion totaled 301, and original proceedings disposed of without written opinion totaled 5,302. • Statewide, 9 percent of Court of Appeal majority opinions were published.
78% of civil appeals were affirmed; 17% reversed; 5% dismissed.
18.2% of civil appeals were published statewide (with the 1st Dist. at 26.2%, the 2d at 15.5%, 3d at 28%, 4th at 15.2%, Fifth at 14.8% and Sixth at 19.8%)
As for timing in civil appeals, the statewide median is 568 days: 2/6 is fastest with a median of 452 days from notice of appeal to opinion; at the other end, the 6th is the slowest at 920 days, the 3d is at 905 days and the 5th at 791 days.
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