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COURTHOUSE USER FEES!!!

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

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The following is an email forwarded to us. The implications are ominous. FROM: The Chief Judge, 11th Judicial CircuitTO: All Judges, AOCRE: Proposed Court House User Fees:Date: April 1, 2011. By now all of you are aware of the inclusion in the current budget of so called "courthouse user fees" to supplement the current judicial and court administrative budgets, which due to the slowing of foreclosure filings, have a collective shortfall of over 800 million dollars. The Legislature will be mandating the implementation of these fees and any circuit that fails to do so "shall lose all funding for discretionary budget items."I have met with several chief judges across the state and we will probably be implementing a toll fee, similar to those in use on highways across the state and country...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on April 01, 2011 (boomark / email).