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brooklynite

(93,878 posts)
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 02:37 PM Jan 2019

Federal Courts run out of cash on Friday...

Companies that turn to the federal courts to resolve fights with rivals and customers may find themselves in limbo if the government shutdown continues beyond next week.

The system has enough money left over from fees and other sources to run through Jan. 11, according to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, which supports the judiciary. After that, nonessential workers at the 94 federal district courts, and at higher courts across the country, may have to stay home even as skeleton crews show up -- without pay -- to handle matters deemed essential under U.S. law, including many criminal cases.

Individual courts and judges will then decide how to fulfill those critical functions, said David Sellers, a spokesman for U.S. Courts. He pointed to earlier shutdowns, the longest of which was the 21-day furlough that started in December 1995 and ended in January 1996. A shutdown beyond Jan. 11 would break that record.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-04/the-courts-run-out-of-cash-next-friday-here-s-what-happens-then


A friend of mine at the Supreme Court told me when this started that they had cash for "a few weeks". Sounds like the deadline is approaching.
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Federal Courts run out of cash on Friday... (Original Post) brooklynite Jan 2019 OP
Interesting atreides1 Jan 2019 #1
From the US Courts website: onenote Jan 2019 #2
Perhaps we'll see 2naSalit Jan 2019 #3
If you are referring to the Mueller investigation his budget is separate. former9thward Jan 2019 #4

atreides1

(16,046 posts)
1. Interesting
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 03:04 PM
Jan 2019

Perhaps that's exactly what the orange faced shit gibbon is waiting for? Any challenge to his claim of a "National state of emergency", would be considered a civil case, and therefore it would likely be postponed, until funds were made available!!!

onenote

(42,383 posts)
2. From the US Courts website:
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 03:19 PM
Jan 2019

If the shutdown were to continue past three weeks and exhaust the federal Judiciary’s resources, the courts would then operate under the terms of the Anti-Deficiency Act, which allows work to continue during a lapse in appropriations if it is necessary to support the exercise of Article III judicial powers. Under this scenario, each court and federal defender’s office would determine the staffing resources necessary to support such work.

former9thward

(31,805 posts)
4. If you are referring to the Mueller investigation his budget is separate.
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 05:13 PM
Jan 2019

It is not affected by the partial shutdown.

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