So, the courts are closing one Wednesday per month thanks to the latest budget deal.
This will affect all of your filing deadlines, because these will not count as court days. At least they settled on a uniform day, state-wide. Our local presiding judge explained to us that Wednesday was chosen due to criminal arraignments needing to be processed in a certain amount of time.
So, this will slow down the law and motion calendar in civil. It may be just a little, but it seems to me like the idea of filing to trial in one year for unlimited civil cases is getting less and less realistic. I know some judges don’t mind going to Track II, but some really, really don’t want continuances.
I think it’s time to reconsider these time lines and the civil law and motion filing deadlines based on this.
UPDATE: Apparently, the furlough days will be treated as holidays, extending deadlines by a day.
