Nearly two dozen appellate division justices and 10 surrogates have volunteered to carry a summer trial calendar and tackle a backlog of cases that are lingering in some jurisdictions.
The judges participating in the initiative are responding to a request of Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman (See Profile) and Chief Administrative Judge A. Gail Prudenti (See Profile) to use summer down time to resolve some of the older cases. According to the Office of Court Administration, of the 272,218 pending Supreme Court civil actions as of May 20, 79,76729 percentwere over standards and goals.
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