Caseload Reporting Issues

Questions:

1. What Are Standard Reports?

Report 600 End of docket period - Shiela?

Monthly filings - Shiela and Keri?

10 year filed and disposed comparison?

2. Are these run by tech support or can you run them?

3. Do you have to calculate any information by hand that you use regularly now?

4. Split of case code classifications as subject matter and procedural now about 2/3 and 1/3; What is future desire/plan?

Reports Regularly Run?

1. Number & Percent Filed and Disposed: Appeals, Disc. & Interloc.

2. Average Number Appeals, Disc. & Interloc. per Judge

3. Number Opinions, Published, Non Published, & Per Judge

4. Number Filings and Disposition by Type i.e., Appeals - Opin, Order, etc., Disc & Interloc.

Denied, Granted, W/drawn, etc.

5. Ten Year display of filings and disp. by appeals, disc. & Interloc.

6. List by code classifications for case type and judgments

Considerations about Reports:

1. Interest and need of audience for reports: public, clerk, or judges.

2. Frequency need for reports

Past Non-routine Judicial Requests:

REASONS: speeches, change in procedure, possible change in jurisdiction, size, etc. of court or procedure

TOPICS:

1. Domestic relations cases

2. Cases involving children - crimes involving, juvenile, & family issues

3. Oral arguments number and proportion granted

4. Worker's Compensation cases

5. Seven deadly sins (serious felonies OCGA 17-10-6.1)

6. Pauper filings in civil

Possibilities:

1. Subject matter areas

2. Procedural areas

3. MFRs - # and % granted

4. Comparison of opinions and filings/disp with other states

5. Time report compare to ABA/COSCA standards or show stages NOA to dkt to remit. or cert, to remit after cert.

6. Number & % of NOI, cert, granted, affirmed

7. Disposition report by affirm, reverse, remand, etc.