Judges and Judiciary
Jan. 8, 2019
Nudge statutes and demurrer filings at Stanley Mosk Courthouse
For the past six years (2013-2018), I have counted the number and type of motions that were heard in Department 15. I then prepared a tabulation to report the number of frequently filed motions heard in each month and for the entire year.
Each of Stanley Mosk Courthouse's 41 individual calendar departments carries a case inventory exceeding 500 civil cases. Removing inactive cases, this drops to about 475 active cases. Each judge receives 35 to 45 new cases each month, with the expectation that about the same number of older cases have been disposed of in the previous month. New cases are assigned randomly.
The caseload covers the gamut of civil disputes, but excludes...
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