§ 7288. Annual report

• (a) The chief judge of the Court shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress each year a report summarizing the workload of the Court for the fiscal year ending during the preceding year.
• (b) Each report under subsection (a) shall include, with respect to the fiscal year covered by such report, the following information:
  • (1) The number of appeals filed with the Court.
  • (2) The number of petitions filed with the Court.
  • (3) The number of applications filed with the Court under section 2412 of title 28 .
  • (4) The total number of dispositions by each of the following:
    • (A) The Court as a whole.
    • (B) The Clerk of the Court.
    • (C) A single judge of the Court.
    • (D) A multi-judge panel of the Court.
    • (E) The full Court.
  • (5) The number of each type of disposition by the Court, including settlement, affirmation, remand, vacation, dismissal, reversal, grant, and denial.
  • (6) The median time from filing an appeal to disposition by each of the following:
    • (A) The Court as a whole.
    • (B) The Clerk of the Court.
    • (C) A single judge of the Court.
    • (D) Multiple judges of the Court (including a multi-judge panel of the Court or the full Court).
  • (7) The median time from filing a petition to disposition by the Court.
  • (8) The median time from filing an application under section 2412 of title 28 to disposition by the Court.
  • (9) The median time from the completion of briefing requirements by the parties to disposition by the Court.
  • (10) The number of oral arguments before the Court.
  • (11) The number of cases appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
  • (12) The number and status of appeals and petitions pending with the Court and of applications described in paragraph (3) as of the end of such fiscal year.
  • (13) The number of cases pending with the Court more than 18 months as of the end of such fiscal year.
  • (14) A summary of any service performed for the Court by a recalled retired judge of the Court.
  • (15) An assessment of the workload of each judge of the Court, including consideration of the following:
    • (A) The time required of each judge for disposition of each type of case.
    • (B) The number of cases reviewed by the Court.
    • (C) The average workload of other Federal judges.
• (c) In this section, the term “appropriate committees of Congress” means—
  • (1) the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate; and
  • (2) the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the House of Representatives.