STATISTICAL REPORT FOR THE

FISCAL YEAR OCTOBER 1, 2019 - SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

During the fiscal year, October 1, 2019 to September 30, 2020, the Court of Federal Claims 

disposed of 804 complaint and 938 vaccine petitions. Except for a number of these cases in 

which no given amounts were claimed, the total amount claimed was $12,915,441,000.00. Of 

the cases disposed, the court rendered judgments for claimants in the sum of $12,960,014,109.75

(annuity amounts are included in this figure if available) of which $7,004,524.83 carried interest. 

A number of these judgments were based on settlements between parties. The Court of Federal 

Claims rendered money judgments for the United States on counterclaims, offsets and/or 

sanctions in the sum of $85,531,466.70. Under its non-monetary jurisdiction (bid protest 

jurisdiction), there were 120 cases filed and the court disposed of 116. 

Case filings decreased in fiscal year 2020 for general jurisdiction cases and decreased for vaccine 

injury compensation cases. General1 jurisdiction cases decreased by 13.3% while vaccine 

petitions decreased by 7%. There were 125 general jurisdiction cases, approximately 19.5%, 

with multiple plaintiffs and 10% involved intervening parties. 

Total case terminations increased 18.8% from 1,466 in fiscal year 2019 to 1,742 in fiscal year 

2020. Pending cases at the close of the fiscal year increased 2.7% from 4,217 on September 30, 

2019 to 4,332 on September 30, 2020.

1 The statistics referenced in this report were generated on October 14th, 2020.
REPORT OF THE U.S. COURT of FEDERAL CLAIMS

for the period

10/1/2019 - 9/30/2020

Nature of suit PENDING

10/1/19

FILED

FY 20

REOPENED

FY 20

DISPOSED

FY 20

PENDING

9/30/20

Tax 157 74 2 84 147

Contract** 333 112 12 140 316

Civilian Pay 89 60 0 48 101

Military Pay 69 34 2 25 80

Common Carrier 1 3 0 0 4

Copyright/Patent 29 7 1 10 27

Native American 16 9 0 7 19

Oil Spill 0 0 0 0 0

Taking 569 77 5 233 416

Contract/Injunction 69 120 4 116 74

CLA Review 0 0 0 0 0

Miscellaneous 110 116 6 116 113

INCC Transfer 0 0 0 0 0

INFO Reward 2 1 0 1 1

Spent Nuclear Fuel 17 3 0 3 17

Unjust Conviction 6 22 1 21 7

TOTAL * 1467 638 33 804 1322

VACCINE

All Natures of Suit 

Except Thimerosal 

and Trivalent 

Influenza

1044 393 4 330 1108

Thimerosal 1 0 0 0 1

Trivalent Influenza 1711 798 2 608 1901

TOTAL * 2756 1191 6 938 3010

* These totals do not include Congressional Reference cases.

** These totals do not include Contract Pre-Award or Post-Award Bid Protest Injunction cases. These figures are listed under 

“Contract/Injunction”.
CONGRESSIONAL REFERENCE CASES

REPORT OF THE U.S. COURT of FEDERAL CLAIMS

for the period

10/1/2019 - 9/30/2020

Nature of suit PENDING

10/1/19

FILED

FY 20

DISPOSED

FY 20

PENDING

9/30/30

Tax 0 0 0 0

Contract 0 0 0 0

Civilian Pay 0 0 0 0

Military Pay 0 0 0 0

Common Carrier 0 0 0 0

Copyright/Patent 0 0 0 0

Native American 1 0 0 1

Oil Spill 0 0 0 0

Taking 0 0 0 0

Declaratory (Contr) 0 0 0 0

CLA Review 0 0 0 0

Miscellaneous 0 0 0 0

INCC Transfer 0 0 0 0

INFO Reward 0 0 0 0

Spent Nuclear Fuel 0 0 0 0

TOTAL: 1 0 0 1
SUMMARY

NUMBER OF COMPLAINTS DISPOSED OF * 804

NUMBER OF VACCINE PETITIONS DISPOSED OF 938

AMOUNTS CLAIMED $12,915,441,000.00

JUDGMENTS FOR PLAINTIFFS/PETITIONERS ** $12,960,014,109.75

AMOUNT OF ABOVE JUDGMENTS CARRYING INTEREST $7,004,524.83

JUDGMENTS ON DEFENDANT’S COUNTERCLAIMS, 

OFFSETS AND SANCTIONS

$85,531,466.70

AMOUNT OF THE ABOVE JUDGMENTS FOR DEFENDANT 

ON ITS COUNTERCLAIMS, OFFSETS AND SANCTIONS 

CARRYING INTEREST

$328,796.11

JUDGMENTS FOR THIRD PARTY PLAINTIFFS/PETITIONERS $0

* Includes Congressional Reference

** Annuity amounts included when available.
Appeals to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

October 1, 2019 – September 30, 2020

Appeals pending October 1, 2019 132

Appeals filed October 1, 2019 – September 30, 2020 152

Total 284

Mandates (not including vaccine cases): Total 133

Reversing (including Reversing in part) 16

Affirming U.S.C.F.C. Decision 77

Appeal Dismissed 37

Appeal Vacated 3

Appeals pending September 30, 2020 Total 104

Vaccine Mandates: Total 5

Reversing 0

Affirming Decision 4

Appeal Dismissed 1

Appeal Vacated 0

Note: Our court does not receive notices of appeal for vaccine cases so the only record we have 

of a vaccine appeal is the CAFC mandate, hence they are listed separately.