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Federal Court Caseloads Threaten Constitutional Protections

Loaded on March 4, 2015 by Matthew Clarke published in Prison Legal News March, 2015, page 24
Filed under: Statistics/Trends, Court Access. Location: United States of America.

Federal Court Caseloads Threaten Constitutional Protections

by Matt Clarke

Civil and criminal case filings in federal courts have grown dramatically over the past two decades, but at the same time the number of judges available to hear them has barely increased according to a report by researchers …

 

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