Today, we’re reviewing the data for the average length of time party briefing in death penalty cases take – the lag time from filing of the opening brief to filing of the reply.
The average wait was 237.65 days in 1990, 334.92 in 1991, 399.5 in 1992, 354.12 in 1993, 323.43 in 1994 and 344.4
This week, we’re continuing our review of the detailed lag time data for the Court’s death penalty cases. First up: the average wait from the order appointing death penalty counsel to filing of the opening brief.
During the 1990s, the average wait from appointment of counsel to the filing of the opening brief increased significantly.
Today, we’re tracking the average lag time from filing of the certified record on appeal to the order appointing direct appeal death penalty counsel. The average wait was 416.35 days in 1990, 735.24 in 1991, 620.48 days in 1992, 743.65 days in 1993, 673.29 days in 1994, 921.31 days in 1995, 542.63 days in 1996,
For the past few weeks, we’ve been reviewing the Court’s lag time data from one case benchmark to the next for both civil and criminal cases. In our next several posts, we’ll be looking at the Court’s recent history with death penalty cases. Today, we’re tracking the lag time between the first two steps in
For the past few weeks, we’ve been tracking the average time between each milestone of civil and criminal cases at the California Supreme Court, year by year since 1990. This time, we’re looking at the average wait from the filing of the last brief to oral argument in criminal cases. As before, for the moment
Yesterday, we reviewed the data for the average wait from filing of the opening brief to filing of the reply brief. This time, we move to the next step: the average wait from filing of the reply brief to filing of the final brief – amicus or supplemental.
During the 1990s, the relatively few additional
Today, we’re looking at the lag time data for the next step in a criminal case – the wait from the order appointing counsel to the filing of the opening brief (which is generally, but by no means always, by the defendant). One very big caution with today’s numbers: for this post, we’re covering all
The Supreme Court decided thirty-nine government and administrative law cases between 2014 and 2019: three in 2014, eleven per year in 2015 and 2016, nine in 2017, five in 2018 and none so far in 2019.
The Court decided twenty-two cases between 2014 and 2019 which were won by the defender of government authority versus
Between 2006 and 2013, the Supreme Court decided forty-five cases involving government and administrative law issues: nine in 2006, ten in 2007, five in 2008, four in 2009, four in 2010, two in 2011, four in 2012 and seven in 2013.
The caseload leaned a little bit towards cases won by the defenders of government
The Court’s docket of cases involving government entities and government/administrative law was down significantly from sixty-nine between 1990 and 1997 to forty-four from 1998 to 2005. The Court decided four cases in 1998, five in 1999, seven in 2000, five in 2001, three in 2002, six in 2003, ten in 2004 and four in 2005.