Footnote 115

See Mayer, supra note 44, at 155. In the twenty-four month period ending June 30, 2001, 42,525 civil rights employment cases were filed (in 2000, 21,404; in 2001, 21,121). These amounted to approximately 8% of the total filings, 516,403 cases (in 2000, 263,049; in 2001, 253,354). See Admin. Office of the U.S. Courts, Statistics Table for the Federal Judiciary, 28-29 tbl.C-2 (June 30, 2001), at http://www.uscourts.gov/judiciary2001/tables/c02jun01.pdf (last visited April 11, 2003).