101. Massachusetts Court System Photo Caption - May 14, 2004 This is the website of the Massachusetts court System. West Newton, MA Chief Justices, Newton district court judges and court staff, legislators, http://www.mass.gov/courts/press/pr051404pc.html

SEARCH Home Resources Photo Caption PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT One Beacon Street, 3rd Floor Boston, Massachusetts 02108 CONTACT: Joan Kenney/Bruce Brock joan.kenney@sjc.state.ma.us FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 14, 2004 FESTIVE RIBBON CUTTING CEREMONY MARKS NEWTON DISTRICT COURT'S RETURN TO RENOVATED NEWTON TRIAL COURT West Newton, MA Chief Justices, Newton District Court judges and court staff, legislators, members of the Executive Branch, Newton community leaders and residents, local law enforcement personnel and area high school students and teachers celebrated the return of the Newton District Court to its newly refurbished courthouse in West Newton with a ribbon cutting ceremony on May 13. Speakers at the ceremony, held outdoors under a sunny sky in front of the Newton Trial Court on Washington Street, included Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall; Chief Justice for Administration and Management Robert A. Mulligan; District Court Chief Justice Samuel E. Zoll; Newton District Court First Justice Dyanne J. Klein; Newton District Court Clerk-Magistrate Henry H. Shultz; State Division of Capital Asset Management Commissioner David B. Perini;

102. 92032 -- Montoy V. State -- Per Curiam -- Kansas Supreme Court The trial followed this court s decision in Montoy v. state, 275 Kan. We conclude that the district court s findings regarding the societal and http://www.kscourts.org/kscases/supct/2005/20050103/92032.htm

Keyword SupCt CtApp Docket ... Date IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF KANSAS No. 92,032 RYAN MONTOY, et al. Appellees/Cross-appellants v. STATE OF KANSAS, et al. Appellants/Cross-appellees. Appeal from Shawnee district court; TERRY L. BULLOCK, judge. Opinion filed January 3, 2005. Affirmed in part and reversed in part. Curtis L. Tideman Kenneth L. Weltz and Alok Ahuja , of the same firm, and David W. Davies , assistant attorney general, and Phill Kline , attorney general, were with him on the briefs for appellant/cross-appellee State of Kansas. Dan Biles Rodney J. Bieker , of Kansas Department of Education, and Cheryl Lynne Whelan , of Lawrence, were with him on the briefs for appellants/cross-appellees Janet Waugh, Sue Gamble, John Bacon, Bill Wagnon, Connie Morris, Bruce Wyatt, Kenneth Willard, Carol Rupe, Iris Van Meter, Steve Abrams, and Andy Tompkins. Alan L. Rupe , of Kutak Rock LLP, of Wichita, argued the cause, and Richard A. Olmstead, of the same firm, and John S. Robb Wm. Scott Hesse , assistant attorney general, was on the brief for defendants/cross-appellees Governor Kathleen Sebelius and State Treasurer Lynn Jenkins. Jane L. Williams

103. Public School Finance Hearing Set In District Court However, the Supreme court stated that the school finance system only needed to Judicial district court against the Commissioner of Education, the state http://www.tea.state.tx.us/press/pr010627.html

Texas Education Agency PRESS RELEASE June 27, 2001 Public School Finance Hearing Set in District Court Austin - The Honorable F. Scott McCown will hear arguments regarding the current public school finance system in the 250th Judicial District Court beginning at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, June 28, at the Travis County Courthouse. On April 9, four school districts (West Orange-Cove Consolidated Independent School District, Coppell ISD, La Porte ISD, and Port Neches-Groves ISD) filed a suit against Jim Nelson in his official capacity as Commissioner of Education, Carole Keeton Rylander in her official capacity as State Comptroller, the Texas Education Agency and the State Board of Education. The plaintiffs contend the state's current $1.50 statutory cap on maintenance and operations tax rates represents an unconstitutional statewide ad valorem tax. On May 7, defendants filed their answer denying all of the plaintiffs' allegations and asserting that plaintiffs have not pled facts which demonstrate that the court should revisit the school finance issues raised. The defendants further assert that the facts are not ripe for court review and the court has no jurisdiction to give advisory opinions. Key developments in the Texas public school finance law are highlighted in the accompanying timeline.

104. School Spending 2004 - Equity In School Funding Managing Risk Why your district needs a sound riskfinancing program. Rodriguez, the US Supreme court ruled that a state funding system that provides http://www.asbj.com/schoolspending/Imber1004.html

Equity in School Funding Providing an equitable education to all children is a tricky legal and fiscal balancing act By Michael Imber For more than three decades, many legal and educational theorists have been dissatisfied with the way states fund their schools. Most states use complex, multifaceted systems to obtain and distribute money to school districts. With some variation, these systems rely heavily on local property taxes, with the result that property-wealthy school districts generally have more money to spend than poorer districts. In most states, the wealthiest districts are able to spend three or four times as much per pupil as the poorest districts in some states, they spend up to 10 times more. Reformist groups have pursued a variety of strategies designed to make more money available to schools and to more equally distribute whatever funds are available. Most often, the immediate goal of education finance reformers has been to improve the education offered to poor and minority students. The strategy most often employed in pursuit of this goal is litigation. What the courts have said In 1973, in the case of

105. HoustonChronicle.com - Court-appointed Defense: Critics Charge The System Is Unf Under intense pressure from district court judges, thenGov. especially in light of improvements made in the local system in 1995. That is when district http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/special/penalty/816535

HoustonChronicle.com Pick a section Home Page Business Classifieds Columnists Comics Community Directory Entertainment Features Health Help Inside Story Marketplace Metropolitan Page 1 News Search Archives Site Map Space Sports Travel Weather Section: A Deadly Distinction Current stories in A Deadly Distinction: Part 1: A Deadly Distinction Harris County is a pipeline to death row Bloodthirsty image at odds with local poll County has budget to prosecute with a vengeance ... E-mail this story Feb. 6, 2001, 7:54PM Court-appointed defense: Critics charge the system is unfair By STEVE BREWER and MIKE TOLSON One of the biggest thorns in the side of death penalty opponents is the system of court-appointed representation for indigent defendants in Harris County. ADVERTISEMENT The power behind the system rests solely in the hands of criminal district judges, and during last year's uproar over the execution of death row inmate Gary Graham it received a barrage of criticism. The system's critics charge that the practice of having judges appoint counsel to the poor inevitably compromises the independence of the lawyer chosen and is susceptible to whim and favoritism. Lawyers become dependent on the goodwill of judges, the critics say, and avoid trial behavior or strategies, perhaps unconsciously, that might anger the person signing their checks. "There's nothing like being controlled by judges that appoint you," said Mandy Welch, a local defense lawyer who handles appeals for death row inmates. "They have to please the judge or they won't be appointed again. You can't be the kind of advocate you need to be."

106. News - Sacbee.com News, 24hour local, state, national and world news, plus politics, sports, business, Figure in DeLay investigation appears in LA federal court http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/

TCDA("cc=lcn;sc=News:Local;da;dt"); Some features on this site require that JavaScript be turned on. Registration Coming Soon News Sports Business ... Sacbee: / News SUBSCRIBE: Internet Subscription Special Sections: 24-HOUR NEWS Top News State COLUMNS R.E. Graswich Marjie Lundstrom Bob Sylva COMMUNITY Community ARCHIVES Back-Seat California Corrections Courts ... Whatever Happened To SPECIAL SECTIONS Bee Photos News Projects School Guide Government Guide ... Keeping score on cleanliness Reports of unsanitary conditions spurred a new disclosure law for restaurants in Los Angeles County. Diners depend on the letter grades, and now Sacramento County is considering a similar system. LOS ANGELES - On one of those sunny Southern California days, coffee-drinking noshers clustered outside a Starbucks, not far from a big, bold letter "A" posted next to the front door. City deal called illegal A former senior deputy city attorney in Sacramento is claiming in a federal lawsuit that she was forced out of her job when she challenged the propriety of proposed payments by the city to a developer. W. Sacramento sees a jam down the road

107. Stories Using Electronic Court Records Reporters used electronic court records to examine the state’s system for The newspaper analyzed a year’s worth of state district court records in http://www.rcfp.org/courtaccess/examples.html

Stories using electronic court records Disabled former patrolman defended criminals WSMV-TV Nashville Sept. 23, 2002 An investigation using electronic court records found that a former patrol officer out on disability had been working to defend the same kinds of criminals he used to arrest. Taxpayers paid him twice. Tax dollars supported his police pension, while state tax dollars paid him as a court-appointed defense attorney. Justice dismissed WOAI-TV San Antonio Oct. 9, 2002 An analysis of Bexar County court records found that thousands of accused criminals are off the hook because the justice system couldn’t get to their case fast enough. Reporters analyzed Bexar County Court records and discovered 5,200 misdemeanor cases were thrown out of criminal courts for "lack of a speedy trial" between 1999 and 2001. It's a dramatic increase compared to 607 cases thrown out for the same reason in the previous three years. Some cases were five or ten years old, others were dismissed in only a year or two. Among the flood of dismissals, were more than 700 DWI-related cases where the driver was never prosecuted. Repeat DWI offenders getting off with probation WOAI-TV San Antonio Oct. 9, 2002

108. State Law And Government Minnesota Minnesota Supreme court and court of Appeals new slip opinions Utah state court System state of Utah, Government Information Access http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/law/state.html

Search the Library catalog Cross-Search the Library website for in Keyword anywhere Title keyword Author keyword Subject keyword ISBN for in General Science Law for Catalogs Database Finder Hours My Accounts ... D'Angelo Law Library State Law and Government Jump to Illinois Scope Note Multistate Information Drafts of Uniform Commercial Acts from the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws Uniform Commercial Code from the Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School Council of State Governments National Center for State Courts Court Statistics Project from the National Center for State Courts National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSLNet) State Capitals Highlights from their newsletters covering state legislation across the nation State Court Locator from the Center for Information Law and Policy, Chicago-Kent College of Law State Constitutions - collected by Ken Lombardi State Statutes on the Net from the Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School - links to state constitutions, statutes, and bills, plus laws on particular subjects. Municipal Codes Online from Seattle Public Library More Municipal Codes from Municipal Code Corporation State Tax Departments for 47 states, with tax forms

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