US Courts’ Safety Valve Threatens to Burst as Senior Judges Exit

June 12, 2024, 8:45 AM UTC

When Senior Judge Morrison England joined the federal trial court in Sacramento he knew to expect long hours to manage the district’s high caseload on such a small bench. But, England said, “there was always this belief that there would be more help on the way.”

More than two decades later, the caseload for the US District Court for the Eastern District of California has reached more than 1,000 cases per judge, and that help has yet to arrive.

“It’s too much,” England said in an interview. He plans to completely stop hearing cases this October, after five years of ...

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