ABA urges Congress to restore funding cuts to federal judiciary
During the final weeks of the congressional August recess, American Bar Association President James R. Silkenat is asking the association’s nearly 400,000 members to contact their members of Congress to urge them to ensure that the federal judiciary has sufficient and certain funding for the next fiscal year.
“Unless the House and Senate agree to a budget that meets mandated discretionary spending caps or enact an alternative bipartisan deficit reduction plan, the federal courts could be subject to yet another round of across-the-board budget cuts,” Silkenat said in a letter to ABA members. “We must urge Congress to enact a fiscal year 2014 appropriation for the federal judiciary that restores funding cuts and assures access to justice.”
As a result of fiscal year 2013 sequestration cuts, the federal court system has already had to continue downsizing and furloughing staff, while scaling back programs that ultimately save the government money. In addition, funding reductions have caused cutbacks to federal defender services that jeopardize the Sixth Amendment rights of many indigent criminal defendants, slowed down the processing of civil and bankruptcy cases, and reduced pretrial and probation office programs as well as drug testing and mental health treatment programs.
Wayne County Probate Court to conduct 2013 attorney training
The Wayne County Probate Court will conduct its 2013 attorney training session on Thursday, Oct. 10 at the Auditorium in the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center, 13th Floor (City Side). Two sessions will be held: Attorney Training from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM and from 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM.
The 2013 attorney training program will be paperless. Registrants will receive their materials via e-mail with a link to the court’s website (www.wcpc.us). Items can be printed out and brought to the seminar. Also, attorneys are welcome to bring their laptops to the program; attorneys will be able to pull up the handouts during the training sessions from the court’s website, in addition to following the power point presentations by the speakers. Only a limited number of power plugs are available on site.
Attendance at one or both seminars is mandatory to become eligible to receive assignments from the Wayne County Probate Court. All attorneys must attend the afternoon attorney training session from 1:30-3 p.m.). Attorneys who did not attend any of the attorney training programs from 1996-2012 must also attend the morning attorney training session from 9 a.m.-noon.
The cost is $75 (whether you attend one or both sessions). Registration forms may be obtained from the Chief Deputy Probate Register’s Office of the Wayne County Probate Court, 1305 Coleman A. Young Municipal Center (use elevators closest to Woodward Ave.) or from the Court’s website at www.wcpc.us. On-site registration will also be available. For additional information, call Michael J. McClory at (313) 224-5685or his administrative assistant at (313) 224-5578 or visit the Court’s web page.
If you do not obtain eligibility to receive appointments through this program, payment vouchers for any Probate Court assignments will not be honored by Wayne County.
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