Following up on our previous post covering 2000 – 2009, numerous states have produced studies on the merits of establishing business courts, or reports evaluating existing business courts. This post provides links to studies and reports on business courts and complex litigation courts from 2010 – 2018.
Arizona
Business Court Advisory Committee Report to the Arizona Judicial Council (2014)
Arizona Commercial Court Pilot Program Report to the Arizona Judicial Council (2016)
Arizona Commercial Court Pilot Program Report to the Arizona Judicial Council (2017)
Commercial Court Review Committee’s Report to the Arizona Judicial Council (2018)
NCSC Commercial Court Evaluation Final Report (December 2018)
Colorado
The Impact of the Colorado Civil Access Pilot Project (Oct. 2014)
Georgia
We have previously posted links to the Georgia Business Court’s regular annual reports here.
Indiana
Commercial Courts Pilot Project (June 1, 2016 – December 1, 2017)
The Indiana Commercial Court Working Group Final Report and Recommendation (11/1/18)
Iowa
Iowa Specialty Business Court Pilot Project Initial Evaluation (2014)
Iowa Business Court Pilot Program Second Annual Evaluation (2015)
Iowa Business Court Program Third Annual Evaluation (2016)
Kentucky
Kentucky Civil Justice Reform Commission Outlines (2018)
Maryland
Report on Business Courts, Recent Developments and Related Issues, prepared for Prof. Michelle Harner, Director, UM Carey Law Business Law Program (2015)
Final Report and Proposed Recommendations Maryland Business and Technology Case Management Program (2017)
Minnesota
Recommendations of the Minnesota Supreme Court Civil Justice Reform Task Force (2012)
Missouri
Making the case for complex commercial litigation court in Missouri (2014)
Nevada
Nevada Legislature, Implementation of Courts of Chancery
New Jersey
Report of the Working Group on Business Litigation (2014)
New York
Report and Recommendations to the Chief Judge of the State of New York (2012)
North Carolina
Semiannual Report on North Carolina Business Court (4/1/15)
Semiannual Report on North Carolina Business Court (4/1/16)
Semiannual Report on North Carolina Business Court (10/1/16)
Semiannual Report on North Carolina Business Court (2/1/18)
Semiannual Report on North Carolina Business Court (8/1/18)
Ohio
Report and Recommendations of the Supreme Court of Ohio Task Force on Commercial Dockets (December 2011)
Philadelphia
Links to reports on Philadelphia’s Commerce Court can be found here
Tennessee
Report from Davidson County Pilot Business Court (2016)
Business Court Docket Phase 2 Guidelines (2017)
Report and Recommendations for the Business Court Docket Pilot Project (Dec. 2017)
West Virginia
Business Court Division 2016 Annual Report
Business Court Division 2017 Annual Report
Wisconsin
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