Estimates of Summary Judgment Activity in Fiscal Year 2006

New report from the Federal Judicial Center: "The Advisory Committee on Civil Rules asked the Federal Judicial Center to examine summary judgment practice across federal district courts as a means of assessing the potential impact of the proposed amendments to Rule 56. This report examined summary judgment activity in 179,969 cases terminated in the 78 federal district courts that had fully implemented the CM/ECF reporting system in Fiscal Year 2006. This unpublished research document is not restricted and may be distributed outside the federal judiciary."  [RJ]

Editor's Note: But is summary judgment constitutional? According to Cincinnati Law Prof Suja Thomas, the answer is "no!" Check out her thought-provoking article. [JH]