Your daily ration of civil justice rationing
The Sun Sentinel newspaper in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida has published a detailed overview of the state’s civil courts access challenges, noting also that Supreme Court Chief Justice Jorge Labarga has launched an effort to “… make the courthouse… Read More
The Kansas effort to decentralize court budgets has brought a lawsuit. Gov. Sam Brownback signed the new law last year despite strong opposition led by state Chief Justice Lawton Nuss. The new systemshifted control of district courts’ budgets… Read More
President Obama’s executive actions on immigration will impact the civil courts system, but it’s hard to know how soon that will happen – or how much the impact will be. Southern California public radio station KPCC is reporting… Read More
The U.S. Justice Department is pushing states to ramp up access to language translators, but local court officials say that’s going to be difficult because of funding issues, according to the Tampa Tribune newspaper. The paper reported that… Read More
With more than 75,000 new cases over the past 12 months, the backlog of pending deportation cases in federal immigration courts has topped 400,000, reports the Associated Press. Citing an analysis released by the Transactional Records Access Clearing,… Read More
