By JIM BUTLER

Almost 11,000 cases were filed in Ninth Judicial District Court in 2023, about 600 more than the year before.

The Louisiana Supreme Court annual report breaks the filings down as:

Juvenile, 736;

Civil, 3,184;

Criminal, 2,721;

Traffic, 4,335.

Of the cases, 23 went to trial by one of the district’s seven judges (one judgeship was vacant the last four months of the year). Five trials were civil cases, 18 criminal.

Statewide there were 131 civil trials and 558 criminal at the district court level.

The report does not indicate how many of the district cases filed were resolved by year’s end.

It does do so for Alexandria (Judge Richard Starling Jr.) and Pineville (Judge Gary K. Hayes) city courts.

Alexandria had 13,467 cases filed and resolved 11,379. Filings:

Civil: 2,411, 1,431 terminated;

Criminal: 6,489, 5,277 terminated;

Traffic: 4,567, 4,671 terminated (includes some cases carried over from prior year).

Pineville City Court had 6,206 filings, with 3,970 terminated. Filings:

Civil: 600, 613 terminated (includes prior year cases);

Criminal: 2,899, 936 terminated;

Traffic: 2,707, 3,970 terminated.

City courts are limited to civil suits including involving $50,000 or less in claims. Criminal jurisdiction is limited to alleged transgressions of city ordinances and state law misdemeanors.