9th Cir.'s Model E-Filing System

Bloomberg Law has Ninth Circuit’s Case Filing System Used as Model for Judiciary

• The federal judiciary’s administrative office is using the Ninth Circuit’s modernized case management system as a “model” and “testing ground” for its own project to update its own electronic filing program, the appeals court’s chief judge said.
• The San Francisco-based court started processing all new cases as of October through its newer Appellate Case Management System, though cases reopened before then continued to be processed in the older system. The development of the new system was a coordinated effort with the Second Circuit, Murguia said.
• Murguia also said that the Ninth Circuit has seen a significant decline in case filings over the last five years. She said the appeals court is “more current in its caseload than it has been in several years.” As of March 2024, the Ninth Circuit had fewer than 7,000 pending cases, which represents a 23% drop from 2019, and the current number of pending cases is the “lowest we’ve had in decades,” she said.

Some not-to-miss 9th Circuit opinions: This one (with concurrence) on stare decisis, and this dissent (a "disgrantle") from the grant of rehearing en banc (Newsweek article here).

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