could the stupid court be more stupid?
Apparently!
We have six divisions (judges) here. 99% of our caseload is limited civil. Five of the judges have always handled limited civil cases. Division 3 never did as she was the juvenile judge. She's retiring so instead of just having her replacement do juvenile, they decided to spread it around.
Okay, fine.
Except they also have changed everything else around, including taking limited civil away from two judges.
Down to three.
And the need for quick (ha) reassignment.
We probably have sixty open cases with those two judges! I've been trying to set hearings in one division all week. She finally got back to me, all apologetic, and explained the situation and said she'd try to push these two cases through for reassignment quickly.
Um...
SHOULDN'T ALL THESE CASES HAVE BEEN REASSIGNED LIKE YESTERDAY! ARE THEY JUST TWIDDLING THEIR THUMBS AND SINGING CHRISTMAS CAROLS OVER THERE?!
For the last several years this county has averaged around 3000 limited civil cases spread over five judges. So, just for one year that's 1200 cases for those two judges. Now some will have settled or been dismissed, but say half of those are active...and that's just for one year! We have open cases sometimes for four, five years! And we still set hearings in them on a routine basis or file garnishments etc. They all need new judges. Every single open case. Now one of the divisions just came into existence a couple years ago but I'm still guessing around 5000 cases will need reassignment.
This is a freaking nightmare.
And I have cases here I can't do anything with.
The huge collection firm here in town (99% of collection cases are limited civil) must be going insane.
Happy Holidays my ass.
We have six divisions (judges) here. 99% of our caseload is limited civil. Five of the judges have always handled limited civil cases. Division 3 never did as she was the juvenile judge. She's retiring so instead of just having her replacement do juvenile, they decided to spread it around.
Okay, fine.
Except they also have changed everything else around, including taking limited civil away from two judges.
Down to three.
And the need for quick (ha) reassignment.
We probably have sixty open cases with those two judges! I've been trying to set hearings in one division all week. She finally got back to me, all apologetic, and explained the situation and said she'd try to push these two cases through for reassignment quickly.
Um...
SHOULDN'T ALL THESE CASES HAVE BEEN REASSIGNED LIKE YESTERDAY! ARE THEY JUST TWIDDLING THEIR THUMBS AND SINGING CHRISTMAS CAROLS OVER THERE?!
For the last several years this county has averaged around 3000 limited civil cases spread over five judges. So, just for one year that's 1200 cases for those two judges. Now some will have settled or been dismissed, but say half of those are active...and that's just for one year! We have open cases sometimes for four, five years! And we still set hearings in them on a routine basis or file garnishments etc. They all need new judges. Every single open case. Now one of the divisions just came into existence a couple years ago but I'm still guessing around 5000 cases will need reassignment.
This is a freaking nightmare.
And I have cases here I can't do anything with.
The huge collection firm here in town (99% of collection cases are limited civil) must be going insane.
Happy Holidays my ass.