In our last post, we showed that the lag time from the order granting review in civil cases to the filing of the opening brief has edged up over the past thirty years by roughly twenty days. This time, we’re looking at the span for the next guidepost: the average number of days in civil
How Long Do Civil Cases Average from Grant of Review to Filing of the Appellant’s Opening Brief?
Our next step in our comprehensive review of lag times at the Supreme Court is the average time from the Court’s order granting review to the filing of the Appellant’s Opening Brief. Absent any extensions, the appellant’s opening brief is due 30 days after the order granting review. (Rule of Court 8.520(a).)
From 1990 to
Part 2 – How Long After Filing is the Typical Petition for Review Granted in Civil Cases?
Last time, as part of our review of lag time data for civil and criminal cases at the Supreme Court, we reviewed the composite lag time data – grant of review to oral argument. For this study, we’ve divided lag time data for civil cases by seven guideposts – Petition for Review filed; Petition granted;
Are Civil Cases Taking Longer – and If So, Why? (Part 1 of a Series)
Today, we’re beginning a new series of posts about an area that’s been controversial for generations: the lag time involved in appellate litigation, and the perception that cases take too long to resolve. We’ve published lag time data on the blog before divided into only two numbers: days from grant of review to oral argument
Does the Time to Argument and Decision Correlate to How a Criminal Case is Decided?
Last time, we analyzed the data on lag times in civil cases – grant of review to oral argument and argument to decision – to determine whether lag time is correlated with the result in the case: do affirmances or reversals take longer? We determined that there’s no consistent relationship over time between lag time
Does the Time to Argument and Decision Correlate to How a Civil Case is Decided?
Last week, we compared lag times in the Illinois Supreme Court’s decision making – grant of review to argument and argument to decision – to the ultimate result in the case, analyzing whether lag time is correlated to the result. The answer is yes – for the most part, affirmances take longer to go from
How Long Do Criminal Cases Take to Argument and Decision?
Last time, we reviewed the lag time data – grant of review to oral argument, and oral argument to decision – for the Court’s civil cases between 1993 and 2017. Now, we’re turning our attention to the criminal docket.
Lag times for the criminal docket as a whole are skewed, of course, by the death
How Long Do Civil Cases Take to Argument and Decision?
Last time, we were reviewing the data on the Court’s record with Court of Appeal cases that sparked a dissent below. This week, we’re addressing the controversial topic of appellate delays – both from the grant of review to oral argument, and from argument to decision.
We report the data for the years 1993 through
Do Criminal Cases With Dissents Below Take Longer to Decide?
Yesterday, we asked whether the Court’s civil cases with a dissent below take longer to decide, charting divided and unanimous cases against the number of days from grant of review to scheduling of oral argument. Today, we’re looking at the criminal docket.
We can see from Table 421 below that the answer to the question
Do Civil Cases With Dissents Below Take Longer to Decide?
For the past several weeks, we’ve been comparing the data on cases which were decided unanimously at the Court of Appeal level to cases which had a dissent. This week, we’re considering another question: do divided cases from the Court of Appeal take longer to decide? Today, we’re looking at the Court’s civil docket.
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