With New York 'Drowning' in Backlog, Advocates Push to Remove Cap on Judges
The Senate has approved the constitutional measure, but its fate in the state Assembly is uncertain.
May 22, 2024 at 05:36 PM
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JudgesThe original version of this story was published on New York Law Journal
Citing the sometimes two-year wait for New York civil and criminal cases to be adjudicated, a lobbying effort behind the No Cap Act reached Albany on Wednesday, proposing to lift the population-based cap on state Supreme Court judges through a constitutional amendment.
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