{"id":73032,"date":"2020-11-23T11:27:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T16:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=73032"},"modified":"2020-11-24T18:02:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T23:02:57","slug":"state-court-budget-forecast-stormy-with-rising-backlogs-strickler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2020\/11\/23\/state-court-budget-forecast-stormy-with-rising-backlogs-strickler\/","title":{"rendered":"State Court Budget Forecast: Stormy with Rising Backlogs [Strickler]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/access-to-justice\/articles\/1331216\/state-court-budget-forecast-stormy-with-rising-backlogs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-73037 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/StateCourtBudgetForcast-11-23-20.jpg\" alt=\"State Court Budget Forecast: Stormy with Rising Backlogs\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/StateCourtBudgetForcast-11-23-20.jpg 932w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/StateCourtBudgetForcast-11-23-20-150x62.jpg 150w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/StateCourtBudgetForcast-11-23-20-768x317.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 932px) 100vw, 932px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/access-to-justice\/articles\/1331216\/state-court-budget-forecast-stormy-with-rising-backlogs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>State Court Budget Forecast: Stormy with Rising Backlogs<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from law360.com by Andrew Strickler<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> (emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">As state lawmakers begin preparing for upcoming legislative sessions amid a resurgent pandemic, a scattered but largely grim outlook for state court funding is beginning to take shape.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">With some judicial administrators already dealing with staggered budgets and new technology costs, experts and advocates say court leaders have their work cut out for them to convince budget analysts and lawmakers to pay for pandemic recovery efforts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Perhaps nowhere is the coming financial strain more apparent than <span style=\"color: #800000;\">i<strong>n Florida, where legislators began gathering Tuesday in Tallahassee to face a historic $5.4 billion budget deficit<\/strong><\/span> over the next two years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">There, court leaders have drawn on their experiences dealing with a crush of foreclosures and other litigation following the 2008 financial crisis to project that <strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">nearly 1 million additional cases will be in front of the state&#8217;s trial courts by the middle of 2021.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">In New York,<\/span> <\/strong>where the next fiscal year promises to include <strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">a gaping $14.5 billion budget hole,<\/span> <\/strong>dozens of appellate judges over age 70 are being\u00a0forced into retirement, a move court administrators said would save $55 million in the coming years and help prevent staff layoffs.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Addendum on 11\/24\/20:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The recordings of every Civil Justice Fest webinar are now available! Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TCyoXN26aj\">https:\/\/t.co\/TCyoXN26aj<\/a> to start watching, and keep an eye out for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/12DaysofCivilJustice?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#12DaysofCivilJustice<\/a> beginning this Friday! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SEW0Ll6glj\">pic.twitter.com\/SEW0Ll6glj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MasonLEC (@MasonLEC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MasonLEC\/status\/1331334386848034820?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 24, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/showcase\/7831061\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Civil Justice Fest: A Month of Dialogues On the Most Pressing Civil Justice Issues<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; from vimeo.com<br \/>\n<em>Judicial\u00a0Education\u00a0Program\u00a0&amp;\u00a0Congressional\u00a0Civil\u00a0Justice\u00a0Academy\u00a0Law\u00a0&amp;\u00a0Economics\u00a0 Center\u00a0Antonin\u00a0Scalia\u00a0Law\u00a0School\u00a0George\u00a0Mason\u00a0University\u00a0November\u00a02020\u00a0Virtual<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Court Budget Forecast: Stormy with Rising Backlogs &#8212; from law360.com by Andrew Strickler Excerpt (emphasis DSC): As state lawmakers begin preparing for upcoming legislative sessions amid a resurgent pandemic, a scattered but largely grim outlook for state court funding is beginning to take shape. 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