The Pennsylvania court system is taking aim at reducing the backlog of civil cases across the state.

According to the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts, since 2012, courts have reduced the number of active civil cases by nearly 20 percent. That reduction is a combination of efforts from the courts to push for the resolution of cases that have been pending for more than two years, and by prothonotaries updating their systems and purging cases that had been resolved but of which the courts had not been properly notified.

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