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Editor's Note

Nov. 1, 2011

Editor's Note

Listening to what lawyers and judges are saying these days about the massive budget cuts now hitting our state courts, I am reminded of the five stages of grief that the terminally ill go through, as described more than 40 years ago by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. First, she wrote, people go through a denial phase. Then they get angry. Then they start to bargain with God. Depression often follows this discussion. And then finally they settle into acceptance.

It's not a perfec...

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