The southern district of Florida has a coastline which extends from Jacksonville south around Key West. and then north to and including Tampa. This coastline. an estimated 900 miles in length. has the effect of adding to the Federal courts of the district a burden of admiralty. Immigration. customs. and other related matters uncommon to other districts throughout the country. The number of civil cases filed per judge in the southern district of Florida during the fiscal year 1952 was 317 against a national average of 236. At the end of the fiscal year 1952. there were pending 1.067 civil cases in this district. an increase of 102 cases over those pending at the end of the fiscal year 1951.
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