According to this WSJ Blog piece, the EDCA district court ranks as the "second most productive" district court in the country, due to our district being severely underserved in number of active district judges [underlying study here]:
In second place was California’s Eastern District, which ranked sixth in bench hours, third in trial hours, eighth in civil trials and sixteenth in criminal trials.
Filings per Eastern District judge in fiscal 2014 were 974. As we reported in The Wall Street Journal, a shortage of resources has led to years-long delays in civil cases in the district, a large swath of California that includes Sacramento, Fresno and Bakersfield.
The court has pleaded for additional judges. “You are working as hard as you possibly can, and no one seems to recognize the stress it puts us under,” said Chief Judge Morrison C. England Jr. “I may set it for trial in 2016, or 2017, or 2018, but it’s going to get bumped. That’s what happens. It’s frustrating and it’s demoralizing. I can’t get cases out fast enough.”