TABLE 1


Effect of Allowing En Banc Review with Less than a Majority of Affirmative Votes
Year Number of Judges   Voting En Banc Ballots No. of Cases Taken En Banc No. of Cases That Got 45% Or More No. of Cases That Got 40% Or More No. of Cases That Got \1/3\ Or More
1994125-26  31  8  6  7  8
199523-26  27  8  2  4  8
199622-24  2514  2  3  5
199717-20  4119  2  511
199817-22  4417  81115
Total16866203047

1Ballot data incomplete.

















TABLE 2


4-Way Proposal Caseload Population
g744Northern Division:23.9%
Northwest, Hawaii, Guam, NMI
g744Middle Division:23.7%
Northern & Eastern California
g744Southern Division:38.0%
Central & Southern California
g744Western Division:14.4%
Arizona and Nevada