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

1994¹	25-26	31	8	6	7	8
1995	23-26	27	8	2	4	8
1996	22-24	25	14	2	3	5
1997	17-20	41	19	2	5	11
1998	17-22	44	17	8	11	15
Total		168	66	20	30	47

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