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The Essex County Bar Association is keeping up the pressure on the state judiciary to scrap or soften a plan that would end master civil calendaring in Essex and have each judge handle matters from start to finish.
At the county bar’s request, the General Council of the State Bar Association voted at its annual meeting on Oct 19 to urge the Administrative Office of the Courts to give counties the option of rejecting the individual calendaring plan if vicinage case disposition statistics are good.
The AOC is free to ignore the resolution, but the vote does put a wide cross-section of State Bar members on record as favoring local option. The resolution also asks the AOC to give counties ample time to train people for the new system so it is “not traumatic and does not cause hardship to litigants.” The plan is to start in Essex on Jan. 1, too soon to get the kinks out, the county Bar says.
Advocates of individual calendaring say it makes it easier for the AOC to monitor judicial performance. If so, says Essex County Bar President Domenick Carmagnola, a possible compromise would be the creation of individual calendars of 25 or 30 cases for each judge while letting the rest of the matters stay on a master list.
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