Maine Hotel Case Illustrates Civil Justice Rationing
It seems a routine case: A town planning board approves a new Hampton Hotel but a resident thinks it was done improperly and failed to properly address questions like how tall the buildings would be....
View ArticleRights Group Notes Immigration Courts Backed Up 3 Years
The Human Rights First advocacy group is noting its new study indicating that the U.S. Immigration Courts are backed up for about three years now, and it’s only getting worst. The Courthouse News in...
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Supreme Court Vacancy Is Tip Of Judicial Backlog Crisis
Photo Credit, Kansas City Star report, 4/12/16 McClatchy’s news service has an explainer piece about the rationing of federal judicial appointments. It begins with an 82-year-old judge, the...
View ArticleFlorida Court District Says Divorce Hearing Can Take A Year
Courts nationwide are facing serious rationing, but a Tampa-area regional justice system is offering some details of its crisis. The info came as county commissioners are debating new facilities. But...
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Advocate Outlines Woes As Immigration Court Backlog Moves Past 500,000
Photo Credit: Francis Riviera In an opinion piece in The Hill newspaper in Washington D.C., a San Antonio immigration advocate outlines a recent milestone in the immigration court backlog: “In numbers...
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Report Outlines Why NY Has Huge Immigration Court Backlog
Photo credit: WNYC Audio Report, 1/17/17 New York’s WNYC radio has an excellent report on why the Big Apple’s immigration courts are backed up, noting that more than a half-million cases are pending...
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SF-Based Immigration Courts Getting Testy
Official seal of the Executive Office of Immigration Review, which operates the U.S. immigration courts. The federal immigration courts, already over-booked with a half-million pending cases and the...
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Trump Immigration Crackdown Hits Backlogged Courts
Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement / AP BuzzFeed is deep-diving into the problems of a backlogged immigration courts system as President Trump gears up his enforcement and...
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No resolution expected for ‘Dreamers’ by end of year
Photo by John Gastaldo/Reuters as included in the PBS report on Dec 5, 2017. The status of recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — commonly known as Dreamers — likely will...
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The bleak state of the immigration court system
A recent article by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) outlines the current state of the immigration court system and it is bleak: “In a report released earlier this year, the American Bar...
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