The caseload is often enormous and the sea of cases can burst like a dam.
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But he acknowledged that getting the full caseload handled in the Gulf Coast could require congressional action.
The court saw its caseload grow rapidly within a decade, from under 8, 400 cases in 1999 to 57, 000 in 2009.
Inexperienced lawyers fresh out of law school are often buried under a gigantic caseload, as in Louisville.
Some enthusiasts, such as Wisconsin (whose caseload fell by 77% over two years), have done spectacularly well.
New York judges' pay has been frozen for a dozen years, even as their caseload has increased by 30%.
The organization's 40 supervising attorneys will pick up the caseload, Mr. Rasmussen said.
San Francisco Superior Court has made some efforts to reform its notorious asbestos docket, and that caseload has dropped.
Ms Saunders said at the height of the caseload, paperwork on rioters was coming in "literally by the sackful".
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In fact, the court has never been this understaffed in its history and the caseload has increased almost 15 percent since 2011.
For example, in the past 20 months Florida's food stamp caseload has grown by more than a half million people, to 1.8 million.
The details were revealed in the 2008 Offender Management Caseload Statistics, which reveals details about the scale of the prison and probation workload.
Back last November, there was a caseload of stories about the Hostess Company disappearing into bankruptcy, and with it its roster of brands.
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Even as the caseload has grown, federal judges' salaries have risen by only 39% since 1991 while the cost of living has gone up 50%.
However, that would change over the years, as the caseload fell.
Eight years later, that caseload had grown to more than 2, 500.
After the market crash of 2000 and the terrorist attacks in 2001, the caseload shot up, more than doubling from 2001 to 2002, to 1, 246 cases.
And I know, having talked to Senator Klobuchar a couple of weeks ago, based on caseload and casework, she's anxious to have a second senator as well.
The state-court civil caseload increased 4.6% to 18 million cases in 2007, the latest year for which statistics are available, according to the National Center for State Courts.
The court came to be seen as a victim of its own success, and by the middle of the first decade of the twenty-first century appeared to be collapsing under its own caseload.
Moreover, a much higher portion of the remaining welfare caseload is made up of people with mental or physical disabilities or other severe limitations, who cannot support their families by working.
In the consultation, the Sentencing Council says that fly-tipping and related environmental offences form only a small part of a magistrate's caseload, meaning they needed clear guidelines to avoid inconsistency in sentencing.
There are four vacancies on that bench -- more than any of the 13 federal appeals courts -- and much of the debate on Halligan was whether the court's caseload was enough to justify filling the bench with more judges.
After Markel's findings were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Barry wrote a letter in response, saying it wasn't swift action but rather an earlier wave of mild flu, acting like a vaccination, that was probably responsible for New York's relatively low caseload.
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