Speech #840213152

Give me your support in the passage of this bill to the end that there will continue to be justice for all. The tables follow: TABLE 1.-Eastern district of MichiganCivil cases commenced and terminated. by fiscal year. and pending at the end of each year. beginning with 1941 Fiscal year 1941-.--1942... 1943.-.-1944 ..--1145.... 1945...--1917....-1948 - .- .1940-..-. 11911. . . 1952-. 19.54...-Total civil cases PendCom- Termi- ing menced nated June 989 1. 254 838 844 1. 085 597 504 W64 437 459 47.5 421 949 087 1.83 883 1.017 549 1.009 907 711 70) 752 719 898 915 702 1.470 1.062 1.110 1. 250 1.337 1.023 1.370 1. 174 1.219 980 1.198 1.01 978 950 1.029 1.147 1.017 1. 159 Private civil cases Commenced Terminated 1.008 Pending June fIll. 48i (84 TABLE 2.-Eastern district of MichiganUnited States civil cases and criminal cases commenced and terminated. by fiscal year. and pending at the end of each year. beginning with 1941 United States elvil Criminal asescases cases (UnitedStates transferred are not a party) price and included in "Coinrent control cases menced" and "TerFiscal are in parentheses I minated" columns year Pend- Pend. Com- Termi- ing Com- Termi- ing menced nated June menced nated June 1941--- 294 248 225 362 360 143 1942 - 139 240 124 574 471 246 1943--. 251 (64) 1.5 210 567 564 249 1944.--.- 264 (73) 2ti3 211 64 590 323 1915_.... 743(559) 517 437 722 767 278 1944)--- 607(480) 745 299 496 58 206 1947.-- 563(388) 558 304 498 566 154 1948_____ 303(138) 404 203 67) 615 229 1949- 413(257) 370 246 990 887 334 1950 . 967(285) 589 024 692 814 184 1951 724(278) 858 490 715 651 239 1952.__.. 810(452) 647 653 594 583 245 1953-.- 445(130) 690 408 667 705 224 1954.-. 367 430 345 581 625 197 1955.- 496 401 440 613 550 268 TABLE 3.-Eastern district of MichiganCases commenced per judgeship year 1941.- ..- .1942 -----1943 ----1944 ...1945 -----1946 - 1947L----1948 ...--1949 -- .19.52 --- .. 1953 -.- 1954 ----1955 ---Total civil cases Private civil cases Criminal cases (less immigra. tion) ------ 153 .88 103 I Immigration cases have been eliminated from this table because they occur in volume in only 5 districts on the Mexican border and because the average judicial time per cas.e for their disposition is small. 2 This column includes 86 districts for 1949 and thereafter. 84 districts before 1949. TABLE 4.-Eastern district of MichiganTime elapsing in civil cases tried 1 Median Median interval in moth fom months from Num- filing to be uo disposition issue to trial Fiscal year er_ __o tried Michi- Michi- Na. gan. tional gan. tional era median ern median 1945..... 43 13.o 9.0 8.9 5.3 1946 -----------5 8.3 8.9 5.4 5.0 1947---------- 57 10.4 9.0 7.1 5.1 1948--------- 79 8. 8 9.9 5.9 5.8 1949--------- 102 10.3 10.4 7.3 5.9 1950----------114 11.7 11.2 7.7 6.7 1051 -----------109 10.8 12.2 7.1 7.3 1952--------- 99 14.2 12.1 8.9 7.0 1953. --------- 112 15.3 12.4 7.9 7.4 1954--------- -90 16.9 13.5 10.7 8.1 1955--------- 89 19.2 14.6 14.9 9.1 1 The median time interval in months is computed for the civil cases in which a trial was held. which were terminated during the year. excluding land condemnanation. habeas corpus. and forfeiture proceedings. No median interval is shown for the years 1945 through 1952 where less than 25 cases were terminated after trial.