{"id":10343,"date":"2013-01-09T14:33:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T20:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=10343"},"modified":"2013-01-09T15:44:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T21:44:37","slug":"vandewalle-3-news-judgeships-needed-in-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=10343","title":{"rendered":"VandeWalle:  3 New Judgeships Needed In State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/justice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4340\" title=\"justice\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/justice-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 North Dakota Chief Justice Gerald VandeWalle is asking state lawmakers to add three new judgeships and additional court employees to keep pace with increased workloads caused by the state\u2019s oil boom.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The chief justice made his appeal Wednesday in his State of the Judiciary speech to a joint session of the North Dakota House and Senate.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 VandeWalle says the state has \u201creached a crisis point where judicial services are suffering.\u201d He says the shortage of judges and court employees in western North Dakota\u2019s oil patch is affecting court systems statewide.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The chief justice says case backlogs \u201cdrive up local incarceration costs, put the rights of accused in jeopardy, impact businesses\u2019 ability to operate and damage families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0VandeWalle says some rural counties have little or no access to legal services.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 VandeWalle announced Thursday that three internships for law students will be made available to address the shortage.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The chief justice says 21 of North Dakota&#8217;s 53 counties have fewer than four attorneys. He says four counties in North Dakota have no attorneys at all.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 VandeWalle says the internships will be with judges chambered in communities that have fewer than 15,000 people.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He says the goal is to show new lawyers the benefits of living and working in small communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 North Dakota Chief Justice Gerald VandeWalle is asking state lawmakers to add three new judgeships and additional court employees to keep pace with increased workloads caused by the state\u2019s oil boom. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The chief justice made his appeal Wednesday in his State of the Judiciary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10343"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10346,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10343\/revisions\/10346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}