Tag: rationing justice

Kansas Illustrating Court Budget Trends

The just-passed Kansas courts budgets illustrate several trends you can find, in differing degrees, in many statehouses this spring: Shifting control back to locals after years of centralized management; tying any new funding to specific reforms or specific… Read More

Congress Ponders Less Civil Justice ‘Rationing’

Adjusted for inflation, the federal Legal Services Corporation budget is at a 40-year low just as the hundreds of state-level offices it funds are facing more people needing legal assistance in the face of foreclosure, family stress and… Read More

Kansas Latest To Tie Cash To ‘Reform’

 Kansas legislators are following the national trend to tie state judicial reform to funding, leading the Wichita Eagle to editorialize against the changes as eroding court independence. The newspaper writes that “Kansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Lawton R…. Read More