Literature and art that exercise our emotions deal with extremes but our realities are in the ambiguous gray middle.
So it is with the United States federal court statistics for 2011, which reflect a great deal of data, which does not present a single over-arching theme (at least to the casual observer).
The district of Minnesota is at the high end of federal case loads “per Authorized judgeship) (see p.22). The number of bankruptcy filings, nationwide, went down, unsurprisingly, as there would have to be a regression to the mean after the recent spike.