§7288 Annual report

Summary

Each year the court’s chief judge must send a report to Congress about the court’s workload for the fiscal year that ended in the prior year. The report must list counts of appeals, petitions, and applications under section 2412 of title 28. It must show how many cases were decided by the court as a whole, the clerk, a single judge, a multi-judge panel, and the full court. It must give the number of each kind of outcome (for example settlement, affirmance, remand, vacation, dismissal, reversal, grant, and denial). The report must show median times to disposition for appeals, petitions, and section 2412 applications, including median times for the court overall, the clerk, single judges, and multi-judge panels or the full court, plus median time from the end of briefing to disposition. It must also give the number of oral arguments, cases appealed to the Federal Circuit, pending cases and their status at year end, the number pending more than 18 months, any work done by recalled retired judges, and an assessment of each judge’s workload (time per case type, cases reviewed, and average workload compared to other Federal judges). “Appropriate committees of Congress” means the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs and the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs.