The 75 U.S. district court judges that serve in Texas face a variety of docket-clogging challenges, from heavy drug and immigration case filings in the Rio Grande Valley to the complicated patent litigation playing out in the eastern part of the state. But no one would suspect that from looking at Texas Lawyer‘s annual Slowpoke Report. Only four of the Lone Star State’s federal district judges appear to have much work piling up.
Pursuant to the Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990, each year U.S. district judges must disclose the number of civil cases pending in their courts for more than three years and the number of civil motions pending in their courts for more than six months. Most judges like to keep those numbers below 10 in both categories. [See "The Slowpoke Report: By the Numbers," page 17.]
