Archive for the ‘Weekly Edition’ category

Issue 6:19 is out – Collecting court debts, merit selection in MO, governing NH’s circuit courts, CT judicial compensation, e-filing in CA

May 10th, 2012

Issue 6:19 is here.

  • Hawaii’s Senate passes for second time plan to let CJ call retired judges back into service
  • California bill would expand civil e-filing
  • Bills advancing in Missouri and Oklahoma would permit use of debt collection agencies to recover money owed the courts
  • Changes to Missouri’s merit selection for appellate court judges approved by Senate

Issue 6:18 is out – Paying for court tech; unionizing the CA AOC; merit selection in MO & TN; veterans courts

May 4th, 2012

Issue 6:18 is here.

  • NH House Judiciary committee rejects effort to impeach marital master and possibly the entire Superior Court bench
  • Bills to help pay for court technology advance in SC, TN
  • Merit selection changes in MO, TN
  • Veterans courts debated in LA, OK
  • Assembly committee approves plan to unionize California’s AOC

Issue 6:17 is out – MO House forbids state judges from enforcing federal law, small claims jurisdiction, merit selection

April 27th, 2012

Issue 6:17 is here.

  • Increasing small claims limits in LA, MN, NY
  • Merit selection changes in MO, TN
  • MO House approves bill that prohibits state judges from enforcing federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Issue 6:16 is out

April 19th, 2012

Issue 6:16 is here.

  • OK legislature on verge of overriding judicial compensation commission’s recommended 6% increase in judicial salaries
  • Multiple judicial selection bills advance in TN
  • NH Senate Finance committee approves changes to judicial performance evaluation

Issue 6:15 is out

April 12th, 2012

Issue 6:15 is here.

  • MO bill would require judges use orginalist interpretation of law and constitution
  • More and more activity in TN on judicial selection
  • Veterans’ courts advance in MO & TN, MD will study the issue

Issue 6:14 is (late, but) out

April 9th, 2012

Issue 6:14 is here.

  • Changes to small claims limits move in Arizona and Minnesota
  • Judicial salary increases advance in ID & MS
  • Delaware’s Senate wants to study opening juvenile proceedings
  • Bills to protect judges and court staff approved in Georgia and Illinois

Issue 6:13 is out

March 30th, 2012

Issue 6:13 is here.

  • Kansas’ House moves to limit courts’ jurisdiction
  • Bill before GA governor would require all municipal judges receive same training
  • New Hampshire House votes to remove supreme court’s rule making power, unilaterally declare existing rule void
  • Changes to merit selection advance in Hawaii, Missouri, and Tennessee
  • Alabama’s House and Senate pass bills to contend with false liens on judges

Issue 6:12 is out with a focus on Court E-Filing

March 22nd, 2012

Issue 6:12 is here.

  • Focus Trend: Court e-filing (go visit a fellow NCSC blog, the Court Technology Bulletin for even more info!)
  • Minnesota bill would cut judicial funding for every dollar court orders state to pay
  • Maryland may increase judicial retirement age from 70 to 72
  • Changes to judicial salaries advance in Hawaii, Idaho, and Maryland
  • Public financing of judicial elections moving in Kentucky, dead in Wisconsin
  • Specialized courts: Arizona looks likely to get homeless courts
  • Maryland House committee rejects effort to use judicial disciplinary system to punish judges for their decisions

Issue 6:11 is out with a focus on Court Interpreters/Court Interpretation

March 15th, 2012

Issue 6:11 is here.

  • Focus Trend: Court Interpreters/Court Interpretation
  • Changes to small claims limits advance in Arizona & introduced in Louisiana
  • Hawaii’s Senate approves increase to mandatory judicial retirement age while Wyoming’s Senate rejects elimination
  • Florida’s legislature adopts numerous measures to fund state’s judiciary
  • Partisanship in judicial picks: Arizona & West Virginia may require those picked to fill judicial vacancies be of same party as those they are replacing, while Georgia may make some currently non-partisan races partisan
  • Specialized courts: Veterans courts approved in Maine & Hawaii; domestic violence courts in West Virginia
  • IL bill would require clerks of court post victims’ rights statement outside every criminal courtroom door

Issue 6:10 is out

March 8th, 2012

Issue 6:10 is here.

  • International/sharia law bans advancing in Alabama, Florida, Missouri, and South Dakota
  • Changes to mandatory judicial retirement ages moving in AL & FL, killed in VA
  • Specialized courts: Veterans courts approved in Maine, Missouri, & Oklahoma; domestic violence courts in West Virginia
  • Minnesota Senate joins House in efforts to remove all members of judicial disciplinary body and replace with legislators
  • Tennessee Senate rejects constitutional amendment to diminish judicial salaries while in office
  • Bills to enhance penalties for attacks on court staff advance in Georgia and Wisconsin