More civil cases are lingering unresolved on the dockets of New Jersey federal judges, according to a report issued this week by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Meanwhile, the state’s federal judges are showing continued improvement in promptness of rulings on motions, according to the report, which was issued under the Criminal Justice Reform Act.
The District of New Jersey had 568 civil cases pending three years or longer as of Sept. 30, 2016, according to the latest CJRA report, which was made public this week. That compares to 498 cases in March 2016, for a six-month increase of 14 percent. That’s far smaller than the increase posted across the federal court system as a whole, where the number of cases pending three years or longer rose 34 percent in the same six-month period.
