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Justice Delayed Is Injustice, Wendell A. Falsgraf Jan 1958

Justice Delayed Is Injustice, Wendell A. Falsgraf

Cleveland State Law Review

Recently, the Cleveland Bar Association created a committee of lawyers and laymen to study the problem of delays in our court system objectively and to make recommendations, both interim and permanent in character, aimed at reaching an eventual solution. Such a study must determine first what the extent of the delay in litigation is - the number of months elapsing between the filing of a case and its adjudication. Second, what the goal is - the number of months which properly should elapse. Third, why litigation is delayed beyond a reasonable time. Fourth, what can be done immediately and over …


Court Calendar Congestion Causes And Cures, Aaron Jacobson Jan 1958

Court Calendar Congestion Causes And Cures, Aaron Jacobson

Cleveland State Law Review

Attention focused on court calendar delay has reached its highest concentration in the history of the American judiciary. While delays are hardly new, lawyers today pale at the spectacle of jurisdictions laboring under multi-thousand case loads and delays measured in years.