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Friday, May 08, 2009
Ind. Courts - "Justice is not being delayed at the Court of Appeals"
Indiana Legislative Insight ($$) has this item in the May 11th issue (reprinted with permission):
HEA 1491 also would add a sixth appellate panel, with some 15 new employees (including the judges) at an annual cost of more than $2.2 million.Chief Judge John Baker of the Court of Appeals acknowledges to us that the intermediate appellate court faces "an ever-increasing case load," but he explains that "because we have been given sufficient staff, we're able to clear 100% of our case inventory each year, while also maintaining the "Appeals on Wheels."
What does he mean by this?
"We have reduced the amount of time that a case is pending and reduced the time it takes for a case to get to us by tightening up on requests for delays," he tells us, adding that "We are the fastest intermediate court of appeals in the United States. We have experienced a reduction in caseload from 2008 to 2009. Carried through for all of '09, we are down by about 100 cases this year."
"Justice is not being delayed at the Court of Appeals," Judge Baker assures us.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on May 8, 2009 09:51 AM
Posted to Ind. App.Ct. Decisions