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Ohio
Supreme Court...
Year-End
Federal Judiciary Review
Jan. 24,
2012
Photo:
Chief Justice Roberts
U.S.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. recently released the
2011
year-end Federal Judiciary Review in which he discusses the Judicial
Conference’s Code of Conduct and its application.
The report
also included analysis of caseloads in the various federal courts.
Some of the
statistical highlights include:
In 2011,
caseloads increased in the U.S. district courts and in the probation
and
pretrial services offices, but decreased in the U.S. appellate and
bankruptcy
courts.
The total
number of cases filed in the Supreme Court decreased from 8,159 filings
in the
2009 Term to 7,857 filings in the 2010 Term, a decrease of 3.7 percent.
Filings in
the regional courts of appeals fell 1.5 percent to 55,126. Growth
occurred in
original proceedings and bankruptcy appeals.
Civil
filings in the U.S. district courts grew 2 percent to 289,252 cases.
Fueling
this growth was a 2 percent increase in federal question cases (i.e.,
actions
under the Constitution, laws, or treaties of the United States in which
the
United States is not a party in the case), which resulted mainly from
cases
addressing civil rights, consumer credit, and intellectual property
rights.
Filings of
bankruptcy petitions declined 8 percent to 1,467,221. This was the
first
reduction since 2007, when filings plunged after the Bankruptcy Abuse
Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 took effect.
The 129,780
persons under post-conviction supervision on Sept. 30, 2011,
represented an
increase of 2 percent over the total from the previous year.
View a
complete copy of the report, click here
To see this
article at the Ohio Supreme Court web site, click here
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