• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Simplify the Courts!

Reform the New York State Court System

  • Home
  • Take Action!
  • About the Coalition
    • Coalition Members
    • Letters and Testimony in Support of Court Simplification
    • Our Coalition
  • Court Reform
    • Why Simplify?
    • New York Compared to Other States
    • Talking About Court Reform & Simplification
    • History
  • Impact
  • News
  • Contact

Uncategorized

Equal Justice Requires Simplification of the New York State Courts

January 14, 2022 By moderncourts

by Janet DiFiore, Chief Judge, State of New York

New Yorkers need a simple-to-navigate, equitably-structured court system that delivers first-class justice services to every litigant in every court—regardless of who they are or where they come from in life.

Over the last 22 months, the Bench and Bar have traveled a long and arduous road together. We have transformed and reinvented the ways in which we deliver our services in order to safely manage our workloads and ensure access to justice for all New Yorkers. In the New York State Courts, we have established a productive “new normal” that relies on our hybrid model of in-person and virtual court operations to deliver justice services to lawyers and litigants during the ongoing public health crisis. Furthermore, our court system has led the state in implementing important COVID preventative policies, such as the mandatory vaccination program for all judges and court staff that took effect last September. As a result, our court system is well-positioned to meet the evolving challenges of the pandemic and resume the forward progress of the “Excellence Initiative.” [Read more…] about Equal Justice Requires Simplification of the New York State Courts

Filed Under: News, Uncategorized

States Table

October 8, 2019 By moderncourts

Number of Trial Courts by State
New York 10
Georgia 9
Massachusetts 7
Rhode Island 7
Tennessee 7
Colorado 6
Delaware 6
Indiana 6
Louisiana 6
Montana 6
Texas 6
Michigan 5
Mississippi 5
New Mexico 5
Ohio 5
Oklahoma 5
Oregon 5
South Carolina 5
Alabama 4
Arizona 4
Nebraska 4
West Virginia 4
American Samoa 3
Kentucky 3
Maine 3
Maryland 3
Nevada 3
New Jersey 3
Pennsylvania 3
Utah 3
Washington 3
Wyoming 3
Alaska 2
Arkansas 2
Connecticut 2
Florida 2
Hawai’i 2
Idaho 2
Kansas 2
Missouri 2
New Hampshire 2
North Carolina 2
North Dakota 2
South Dakota 2
Virginia 2
Wisconsin 2
California 1
District of Columbia 1
Guam 1
Illinois 1
Iowa 1
Minnesota 1
Northern Mariana Islands 1
Puerto Rico 1
Vermont 1
Virgin Islands 1

Filed Under: Uncategorized

What is Court Simplification?

August 9, 2019 By moderncourts

Court simplification will remove the barriers that impact litigants, families, victims, local government, small business, lawyers, nonprofit organizations, judges and court personnel and anyone who uses the courts because it will integrate the courts in a way that eliminates the need to go to different courts for different yet related issues.

This multiple court system creates confusion among the people the courts are supposed to serve, gives judges only partial ability to see the full picture of the case, wastes time for litigants which often results in loss of work and wages, and generates a system that is difficult, if not impossible, to understand.

Learn How Chief Judge Janet DiFiore’s Proposes to Modernize the NYS Court System

Filed Under: Uncategorized

Hello world!

May 25, 2017 By moderncourts

Number Of Court Systems
00

Filed Under: Uncategorized

Primary Sidebar

Supported by The New York Community Trust

Copyright © 2022 · The Fund for Modern Courts · site by iKnow