The settlement stipulates that the Parole Board will conduct more timely hearings, and that no such backlog will be allowed to build up again.
Also, such a backlog of applications built up at America's patent office (now more than 1m, with a waiting time of around three years) that standards slipped.
Such a backlog leads to significant delays: Last year, the average case in criminal court took 316 days to go from arraignment to completion, he said.
He'd complained to his landlord repeatedly, with no luck, and the council had such a backlog, they weren't able to help.
It now takes about three years, on average, for a patent application to be approved, and the office has such a backlog that it takes two years for examiners to begin work on a new application.
Eleven months ago, a prolonged shutdown of BlackBerry services in the same region created such a backlog of undelivered messages within RIM's computer system that it nearly shut down global service.
That is impressive because there is such a backlog in patent offices, it can take up to three years before an examiner even begins to study some patent applications.
Even if it were, parliament's sloth has resulted in such a backlog of work that legislators are unlikely to find time for the amendment in the next six months.Ironically, the Prudential affair has erupted just as Jakarta's stock exchange is hitting new highs almost daily and when government bonds are several times oversubscribed.
But it comes to something when an organisation takes a service over from Capita, the private company that earlier this year had to be shored up because it faced such a backlog of personal independence payment (PIP) claims for sick and disabled people, and manages to make Capita look good.
Fairfield County has such a backlog of inventory that in April and May, only 24percentt of the available single-family houses sold, compared with 70percentt for the corresponding period last year, according to Mark Markelz, a sales vice president in the Southport office of William Raveis International.
