Packet prepared for the District of Puerto Rico offering guidance for crafting CJRA reports and plans based on 1991 statistics of case weights, filing trends, and criminal dockets
News articles dated 9/13/1991, 9/17/1991, and 11/18/1991 entitled "Other branches blamed-for federal court bind," "Panel labors-to put courts back in order," and "Judges Clog Federal Docket"
Correspondence regarding a questionnaire sent to attorneys in the Southern District of Illinois. Also includes statistics on case loads, types, and lengths for that district.
Despite the various adages concerning statistics and lies, statistics don't lie. Instead, we often mislead ourselves by misinterpreting statistics. Court caseload statistics present numerous opportunities for this sort of self-deception.
Court Administrator John P. Mayer forwards additional materials and research of the Civil Justice Advisory Group for the Eastern District of Michigan to the Administrative Office. Materials include case statistics and advisory group meeting minutes from June 18, 1991.
In this memo to Civil Justice Advisory Group members of the Northern District of Georgia, Jeanne J. Bowden shares statistics regarding case loads and relays the contents of a conversation she had with John Shapard, author of the article "How Caseload Statistics Deceive."