Court Commissioners

• The Price of Justice: Magistrate Court Commissioners Come at a Hefty Cost for Orleans Parish

Editor's note: This story starts a periodic series that will examine funding for the New Orleans criminal justice system and how taxpayers are affected. Despite persistent cries that Orleans Parish Criminal District Court lacks adequate funding, its four Magistrate Court commissioners make $68,498 a year while working just one day a week.

• New Orleans City Business
• March 12, 2010

• Missouri Drug Court Commissioners Likely to Remain in Place

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Monday that he would scuttle a controversial plan to, among other things, convert drug court commissioners into associate circuit judges. Senate Judiciary Chairman Matt Bartle, R-Lee's Summit, said that a Senate draft of the legislation would remove the provision.

• Missouri Lawyers Media
• September 14, 2009

• An End to Court Commissioners in Missouri? Bill Would Move Positions to Kansas City

A proposal moving forward in the Legislature would get rid of probate and drug court commissioners statewide starting next year and make those positions associate circuit judges. In the process, St. Louis City's circuit court would lose two drug court positions, and the court serving Kansas City would gain an associate judge.

• Missouri Lawyers Media
• September 14, 2009

• Court commissioners

• Washington Constitution

• Commissioners Court of Medina County, Texas, Et Al. v. United States of America, Et Al. Antonio Garcia, Iii, Et Al., Appellants., 683 F.2d 435 (D.C. Cir. 1982)

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia (D.C. Civil No. 80-0241). Jose Garza, San Antonio, Tex., with whom William...

• Federal Circuits

• Circuit court commissioners and justices of the peace, abolition; courts of limited jurisdiction

• Michigan Constitution

• Missouri Supreme Court to Answer Question of Whether Commissioners Should Be Treated the Same As Judges

The Supreme Court this week will tackle the question of whether commissioners should be treated the same as judges. A case over a St. Louis commissioner's retirement raises the issue of whether the Commission on Retirement, Removal and Discipline has the authority to discipline or retire commissioners in local family, probate and drug courts.

• Missouri Lawyers Media
• September 03, 2010

• Commissioners Court Gets New Year Underway

With the swearing in of a familiar face in [Sergio "Chico" Rodriguez] "Chico" Rodriguez to Bexar County Commissioners Court for precinct one, the New Year's agenda was underway. Precinct one is a rapidly changing community," said Commissioner Rodriguez. "We have seen great progress, but there is much more to do. It is truly an honor to continue serving this community, and my door is always open to my constituents. The hotly contested burn ban and fireworks ban within the city was also reviewed with a report on the County emergency management and response operations from December 20, 2008 through January 5, 2009. Exceptionally dry conditions have led to steps taken by the county to ban burning activities, but local sales of the fireworks by local and seasonal retailers have remained st...

• La Prensa; San Antonio, Tex.
• September 02, 2009

• Commissioners Approve Security Partition for Court Office

PARIS ? Oxford County commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to approve the addition of a glass partition in the Superior Court clerks' office to make it more secure. The decision days before Superior Court records and clerks move to the South Paris District Court. The two buildings at 26 Western Ave. are separated by a parking lot.

• Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
• August 19, 2010

• Division of counties into precincts; election of constable and justice of the peace; county commissioners and county commissioners court

• Texas Constitution