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A combination of increased staffing and work hours, along with technological advances, allowed the National Personnel Records Center to dig out of backl...

Patch Candidate Profile: Ryan Hyde Runs For DA - West Chester, PA - Hyde, 47, of Uwchlan Township is running for District Attorney of Chester County in the November election.

In response to questions raised by various Members of Parliament in Lok Sabha, the Union Law Ministry has replied that there are over 4,43,92,136 pending cases in various District and Subordinate...

The federal judiciarys policymaking division is asking for additional permanent judgeships from Congress, citing a lack of a comprehensive expansion in the last 30 years.

Explore the advantages and disadvantages of arbitration compared to litigation based on the goals of fair and efficient procedure, correct results, and minimizing adverse collateral consequences of the dispute resolution process; and the criteria that sho

Explore the advantages and disadvantages of arbitration compared to litigation based on the goals of fair and efficient procedure, correct results, and minimizing adverse collateral consequences of the dispute resolution process; and the criteria that sho

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has asked the Texas Senate to study 84 charges during the interim before the 88th Legislative Session.

Two years after the pandemic slowed the criminal and civil systems, trials are down, some defendants are stuck in jail and lawyers are overwhelmed with cases

Officers will resign. what kind of impact could this have if you lose 300 troopers? >> its going to be felt everywhere. well have slower responses. there will be case backlogs. youre going to see less troopers responding to critical incidents. >> reporter: officers and firefighters were hoping that cities and states would have chosen a path where it wasnt all or nothing. thats how they see these mandates. they believe a more suitable alternative would have been to offer regular testing for those...

The Atlantic For better, for worse, and possibly forever This article was published online on April 13, 2021. In July, Michelle Rick, then a circuit-court judge in two Michigan counties, tweeted cheerily about a divorce she’d recently finalized. The participants had appeared in court via their smartphones. “He was on the road & parked his car to attend; she video-tx’d from her work breakroom,” the judge wrote. They were done in 15 minutes—faster than the proverbial Reno divorce. Last ...