§7288 Annual Report

Summary

Each year the chief judge must send the Senate and House Veterans’ Affairs Committees a report summarizing the Court’s workload for the fiscal year that ended in the previous year. The report must list counts of appeals, petitions, and applications filed under 28 U.S.C. 2412; the total number of dispositions by the Court, the Clerk, a single judge, multi-judge panels, and the full Court; the types of outcomes (for example settlement, affirmation, remand, vacation, dismissal, reversal, grant, and denial); median times from filing to disposition for the Court overall and for each decision-maker listed; median times for petitions, for 2412 applications, and from the end of briefing to disposition; the number of oral arguments; the number of appeals to the Federal Circuit; numbers and status of pending matters and of cases pending more than 18 months at year end; a summary of work done by any recalled retired judge; and an assessment of each judge’s workload, including time per case type, cases reviewed, and comparison to other Federal judges. “Appropriate committees of Congress” means the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs and the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs.