State Bar & Bar Associations
Aug. 11, 2011
ABA president decries state court cuts
Leaders of the American Bar Association called for improved funding for state courts and adopted a proposal suggesting ways courts could be more efficient.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Recent cuts to already underfunded courts "threaten the very viability of our justice system in America," William T. Robinson III said Tuesday in his inaugural address as president of the American Bar Association.
Robinson noted that Alabama courts now operate only four days a week and that New York trial judges haven't had pay raises in 12 years. He also cited the Sa...
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