The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts last month released its semiannual report on pending cases and motions, the closest thing there is to a judicial report card. The data shows the backlog cuts across age and experience -- but those with the deepest dockets almost uniformly say the rankings fail to account for the nuance of law. "The list doesn't distinguish between the complicated and the mundane," says one New York federal judge, who notes that simple torts and class actions go undistinguished.
January 21, 2008 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on National Law Journal
Judge Stephen Robinson was confirmed to the federal bench in New York’s Southern District in 2003, and he’s been trying to dig himself out of his docket ever since.
Robinson, according to a new report by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, had 155 motions pending for more than six months as of March 2007 — the second-heaviest motions backlog in the country.
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