AZ SCM1002

Urges the United States Congress to divide the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals into two separate circuits by enacting H.R. 250 or similar legislation.

Notes that the Ninth Circuit encompasses nine states (Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington) plus the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam, covering nearly one-fifth of the U.S. population.

Identifies concerns including the court's longest median filing-to-disposition period of 15.4 months (compared to 8.8-month national average) and the United States Supreme Court reversing the Ninth Circuit in 79.5% of cases reviewed during the four-year period ending June 2014.

States that the court's size of 29 judges makes it impossible for individual judges to review all opinions produced by the court, resulting in inconsistent and incoherent precedent.

Directs the Arizona Secretary of State to transmit a copy of this memorial to the President of the U.S. Senate, Speaker of the House, and all Arizona members of Congress.