Backlogs in court case processing are not new and have been a focus of the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) since its founding. Justice Delayed: The Pace of Litigation in Urban Trial Courts was published in 1978 on this very issue. But the conversation around backlog is more relevant now than ever. The COVID-19 pandemic had a dramatic effect on the courts, not the least of which included unprecedented rises in pending cases nationally in 2021 and 2022. Growth…
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