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Senate Judiciary backs study of specialty courts to ease district caseloads
Summary
Sen. Tom McGill asked the Senate Judiciary Committee to study specialty courts to relieve overloaded district judges; proponents and the State Bar urged study while noting the legislature may also need more district judges. The committee heard testimony but took no final vote on SJ39.
Sen. Tom McGill introduced Senate Joint Resolution 39 on behalf of Senate District 26, asking the Judiciary Committee to direct an interim study of specialty courts that could take complex constitutional, government-claims and business cases off district court dockets.
“District courts are quite clogged up,” McGill told the committee, citing judicial-survey estimates of…
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