Imagine a federal judicial system in which courthouses are open every other week, there is a five-year wait for a jury trial and no oral arguments are permitted on appeals.
It is a pretty drastic picture, and an exaggerated one at that, but court scholars and others believe a funding crisis, unprecedented in the last two decades, will result in fundamental alterations in the nation’s justice system in another two years if left unresolved by Congress.
And this article is just discussing the Federal courts. The state court systems in many states are in even worse shape. Details here from The National Law Journal via Law.com.
Imagine a federal judicial system in which courthouses are open every other week, there is a five-year wait for a jury trial and no oral arguments are permitted on appeals.
It is a pretty drastic picture, and an exaggerated one at that, but court scholars and others believe a funding crisis, unprecedented in the last two decades, will result in fundamental alterations in the nation’s justice system in another two years if left unresolved by Congress.
And this article is just discussing the Federal courts. The state court systems in many states are in even worse shape. Details here from The National Law Journal via Law.com.
Imagine a federal judicial system in which courthouses are open every other week, there is a five-year wait for a jury trial and no oral arguments are permitted on appeals.
It is a pretty drastic picture, and an exaggerated one at that, but court scholars and others believe a funding crisis, unprecedented in the last two decades, will result in fundamental alterations in the nation’s justice system in another two years if left unresolved by Congress.
And this article is just discussing the Federal courts. The state court systems in many states are in even worse shape. Details here from The National Law Journal via Law.com.
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