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Delaware Law Weekly

Strine Renews Calls for Funding in Budget Request

Delivering the judiciary's first budget request for the 2018 fiscal year, Chief Justice Leo E. Strine Jr. on Tuesday renewed calls for increased state funding to invest in employee pay fairness initiatives and upgrade the courts' facilities and technology.
7 minute read

The Recorder

State Auditor Presses Power to Review Judicial Discipline Agency

Lawyers for state Auditor Elaine Howle fired back this week at the Commission on Judicial Performance, arguing that the judicial disciplinary agency has no authority to limit her review of its operations.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Voice of the Bar

In re NJLJ Editorial, "Mandatory Mediation Program Needs Improvement to Thrive (10/32/16)", I respond as follows: This editorial would make much more sense if written in the 1980's rather than today. If that is truly how people feel or "should" feel about mandatory mediation of civil cases, then I have to scratch my head and wonder why.
6 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Voice of the Bar

As a litigator turned full-time Accredited Professional Mediator, and having served on the Supreme Court Committee for Complementary Dispute Resolution, I agree with the Oct. 31 editorial that the "Mandatory Mediation Program Needs Improvements to Thrive."
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Clerk Sued Over Delays In Access to Complaints

A legal news service is suing Milton Tingling, New York County clerk, in federal court, claiming newly filed complaints in Manhattan Supreme are being wrongly withheld from the press and the public for days.
6 minute read

Daily Report Online

Podcast Appeals Decision Blocking Duplication of Recordings in Old Murder Case

A Floyd County judge determined that court rules only allow the producers of "Undisclosed" to review audio recordings, not duplicate them.
9 minute read

New York Law Journal

Short Road Trip to Mark Third Department Milestone

The Appellate Division, Third Department, will hear oral arguments on Friday in the same courthouse where it made its home from 1916 to 1972.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Citing Coercive Behavior, Panel Vacates Guilty Plea

Improper pressure from a trial judge led a defendant to plead guilty to manslaughter, a unanimous appeals court has found in ordering the plea vacated.
3 minute read

The Recorder

As Votes Are Tallied, Death Penalty Foes Sue to Stop Ballot Initiative

A petition to California's Supreme Court late Tuesday challenges Proposition 66, which would expedite death penalty appeals.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judge Must Sit Out Criminal Cases After Clerk's Election as DA

With election of her long-time law clerk Caroline Wojtaszek as Niagara County district attorney, county Judge Sara Sheldon will not be allowed to preside over any criminal matters for the next year.
3 minute read

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