{"id":72,"date":"2015-03-18T17:46:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T21:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/?p=72"},"modified":"2015-04-03T14:18:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T18:18:21","slug":"the-ninth-circuits-workload-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/2015\/03\/18\/the-ninth-circuits-workload-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ninth Circuit\u2019s Workload Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Administrative Office of the United States Courts released its 2014 federal court statistics this month and it reveals some interesting aspects of the Ninth Circuit&#8217;s workload. Not only is the Ninth Circuit the largest circuit geographically, it remains by far the busiest, with 13,868 cases pending in 2014.\u00a0 By contrast, the next busiest circuit\u2014the Fifth\u2014had 4,717 cases pending in 2014.\u00a0 Based on these caseload statistics, it is not surprising\u00a0 that appeals take longer in the Ninth Circuit than in the other Circuits.\u00a0 As the <a title=\"2014 federal statistics\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/03\/B04ASep141.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">statistics <\/a>indicate, the Ninth Circuit&#8217;s median time from Appellee\u2019s brief to oral argument in civil appeals is 13.6 months, and from notice of appeal to decision is 21.3 months (and\u00a0 that is just the median time.)\u00a0 By contrast, the next slowest circuit\u2014the DC Circuit\u2014handles civil appeals in 5.5 months from Appellee\u2019s brief to oral argument, and 12.7 months from NOA to decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Administrative Office of the United States Courts released its 2014 federal court statistics this month and it reveals some interesting aspects of the Ninth Circuit&#8217;s workload. Not only is the Ninth Circuit the largest circuit geographically, it remains by far the busiest, with 13,868 cases pending in 2014.\u00a0 By contrast, the next busiest circuit\u2014the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/2015\/03\/18\/the-ninth-circuits-workload-shows\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Ninth Circuit\u2019s Workload Shows&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[71,68,11,69,70],"ppma_author":[235],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-2014-federal-court-statistics","tag-ninth-circuit","tag-paul-killion","tag-time-to-decision","tag-workload"],"authors":[{"term_id":235,"user_id":37,"is_guest":0,"slug":"pjkillion","display_name":"Paul J. Killion","avatar_url":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/08\/killionpaul-125x150.jpg","author_category":"","last_name":"Killion","first_name":"Paul J.","job_title":"","user_url":"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/pauljkillion.html","description":"Paul Killion is a partner in the San Francisco office of Duane Morris and a appellate specialist certified by the State Bar of California. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/pauljkillion.html\">Read Paul's bio.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}