Issue 5:10 (March 4) is here and features:

• Focus Trend: Making it easier to carry firearms into courthouses
• Bills to increase small claims jurisdiction advance in Oklahoma and Wyoming but are rejected in Hawaii and Maryland
• Florida bills would require supreme court license paralegals
• Arkansas and Mississippi bills would require all judicial expenditures be posted online
• Massachusetts Senate bill would prohibit members of Judicial Nominating Commission or Commission on Judicial Conduct from making an appearance as an attorney in any state court
• West Virginia House approves new “fair administration of justice” fees to pay for public financing of supreme court races
• Utah House and Senate committees approve bills to require all new justice courts have recording devices in their courtrooms
• Bills to end collective bargaining for judicial employees introduced in Georgia and Massachusetts
• Washington’s House and Senate pass bills to increase penalties for assaulting judges and court staff

• Previous Entry: AZ bill would require voters be informed of cases where a judge struck down a law as unconstitutional just before election day
• Next Entry: Maine bill would create 13 member “Commission To Study Priorities and Timing of Judicial Proceedings in State Courts” with only 2 members of judiciary