David R. Dow, a professor of law at the University of Houston who has represented capital defendants, said the 40 executions last year, as well as high numbers in 1998 and 1999, came after various court rulings broke a backlog of pending cases.
Its lights blazed throughout Friday night and into the early hours of Saturday morning as doctors tried to tackle a "backlog of pending surgeries".
The agency, meanwhile, has a growing backlog of pending applications (currently more than 400,000) and an annual argument with Congress because lawmakers divert about 10percentt of the money the patent office earns in user fees.
Its sudden emergence has stressed the network, causing a significant backlog of pending transactions.
They include "a substantial backlog of pending biotech applications, and bans adopted by individual E.U. member states on biotech products approved at the E.U. level".
That program has been plagued by a severe backlog of pending applications, which has left about 134,000 people still stranded in limbo.
There was still a backlog of 705,370 pending hearings.
The result is a backlog of 18,000 pending appeals and $210 million in contested penalties.
Pompeo said another cutback in refugees — for the third year in a row — was needed because of a backlog of 800,000 pending asylum seekers.
There is a backlog of 165,000 pending tax cases, some more than a decade old, representing about half of the total arrears of 60 billion euros ($81 billion), according to a report by the task force charged by the commission with aiding economic recovery in Greece.
There's alreadly a backlog of 311,000 pending asylum cases, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and the average wait for a date in immigration court is more than 700 days.
