'Backlogs Keep Me Up at Night': A look at Cases Clogging Texas Dockets Amid Pandemic
"The way it affects people is why we are concerned," said David Slayton, administrative director of the Texas Office of Court Administration. "Numbers are numbers. But behind every one of those cases are people who are directly affected, one way or another."
June 11, 2021 at 11:42 AM
8 minute read
A good surprise for Texas lawyers is that coronavirus court closures have not clogged dockets as badly as expected—for most case types.
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