Budget Resource
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...providing state budgets, reports, and current news to help the court community make informed budgetary decisions.

Highlighted Report
		Amanda Bronstad. "Facing Pay Cuts, Nation's Judges Are Sharing in the Pain." The National Law Journal. August 17, 2009.

Economic Impacts on Courts

• State Courts & the Economy Newsletter. Williamsburg: National Center for State Courts. Ongoing.
• Carol J. Williams. "Death Row Foes Now Fight the Cost of Executions." LA Times. June 29, 2009.
• "Damon Circosta: Cost-cutting Shortchanges Justice." Star News Online. June 18, 2009.
• Daniel Barrick. "Court Cases Unresolved; Judges Few." Concord Monitor. June 12, 2009.
• "Our View on Hard-times Budgeting: States Releasing Prisoners Early May Pay for it Later." USA Today. June 2009.
• Tony Mauro. "Summit in Charlotte Focuses on State Courts in Crisis." The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times. May 8, 2009.
• Katharine Q. Seelye. "To Save Money, States Turn to Furloughs." NYTimes.com. April 23, 2009.
• "Delegations From 37 State-Level Jurisdictions Combine Forces to Preserve Justice Systems as The 'Business Of Government'." American Bar Association, News Release. April 16, 2009.
• Jonathan D. Glater. "In a Downturn More Act as their Own Lawyers." NYTimes.com. April 10, 2009.
• Andrew Cohen. "The Costs of Justice." CBS News. April 7, 2009.
• Correy E. Stephenson. "Jurors Increasingly Seek Recusal for Financial Hardship." Lawyers USA. April 6, 2009.
• Dana Wilson. "Paperless Court is Motionless." The Columbus Dispatch. March 14, 2009.
• John Schwartz. "Pinched Courts Push to Collect Fees and Fines." NYTimes.com. April 6, 2009.
• "The Cost of Capital Cases". The New York Times. February 25, 2009.
• Ian Urbina. "Citing Costs, States Consider End to Death Penalty." The New York Times. February 24, 2009.
• Gail Rehagen, Joseph A. Vradenburg, and Donna Gaynor. "Fact Sheet #18: The Relationship Between the Economic Downturn and Court Activity." State of Missouri, Office of State Courts Administrator. February 2009.
• John Myers, Leoneda Inge, and Chris Christoff. State Budgets Falling Short in the Recession. NPR, January 12, 2009.
• Frank Broccolina and Richard Zorza. "En$suring Access to Ju$tice in Tough Economic Times." Judicature. 92:3 (November-December 2008). 124.
• Ari Shapiro and Mary McQueen. "Budget Cuts, Bigger Work Load Cramp State Courts." National Public Radio. March 27, 2008.
• "The Cost of Justice: Budgetary Threats to America's Courts." The Constitution Project. 2006.
• Ann Keith and Kenneth Pankey. "Budget Conditions and Court Responses-Update." December 22, 2003.

Furlough Reports

• Kenneth Ofgang. "McCoy Asks Bench Officers to Take 4.7 Percent Voluntary Pay Cut." Metropolitan News Enterprise. June 1, 2009.
• "7th Judicial Distirct Won't Get More Judges, Furlough Days Cancelled." Quad-City Times. May 27, 2009.
• Adrienne Lu. "N.J. State Courts Will Close Tomorrow for Furloughs." Philly.com. May 21, 2009.
• Victoria Kim. "L.A. County Courts toClose 1 Day a Month." Los Angeles Times. May 20, 2009.
• Dan Galindo. "Most State Judges Agree To Voluntary Pay Cut." Winston-Salem Journal. May 18, 2009.
• Molly Montag. "Court Furloughs Taking a Toll." Siox City Journal. May 18, 2009.
• Sanne Specht. "Accord Limits Courts' Closure to a Day." MailTribune.com. March 18, 2009.
• "Eye on Boise: Lots of Furloughs." Spokesman.com. January 14, 2009.
• Chief Justice Paul L. Reiber. "Supreme Court Decision." The Vermont Bar Association. January 13, 2009.
• Court Closing Schedule. The Vermont Judiciary. October 6, 2008.

Other Reports

• State Budget Update: April 2009. National Conference of State Legislatures. April 23, 2009.
• Update on State Budget Gaps: FY 2009 & FY 2010. National Conference of State Legislatures. February 20, 2009.
• Elizabeth McNichol and Iris J. Lav. "State Budget Troubles Worsen." The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. December 23, 2008.
• Tom Clarke and Dan Hall. "How to Defy Budget Gravity." National Center for State Courts. September 2008.
• The Fiscal Survey of States. National Governors Association and National Association of State Budget Officers. June 2008.
• Top Ten Trends.  "State Courts and Budget Challenges." In Future Trends in State Courts 2006. Williamsburg, VA: National Center for State Courts. 2006.
• Todd Lochner. "Court Budgets and the Mootness Doctrine."  Justice System Journal. 26 (2005): 225.
• COSCA. Position Paper on State Judicial Branch Budgets in Times of Fiscal Crisis. White Papers. December 2003.
• Roger E. Hartley and James W. Douglas. "Budgeting for State Courts: The Perceptions of Key Officials Regarding the Determinants of Budget Success."  Justice System Journal. 24 (2003): 251.

Web sites

• Budget Processes. CourTopics. National Center for State Courts, Knowledge and Information Services Division.
• The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
• National Association of State Budget Officers.
• National Conference of State Legislatures.
• The Pew Center on the States.
• Rockefeller Institute of Government.