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New Mexico Judicial Council backs referees to ease caseload
At the annual meeting in Ruidoso the New Mexico Judicial Council expressed qualified support for using court referees to reduce civil case backlog. A study by Lars Bjork and D A MacPherson Jr. found 74.8 percent of civil cases. 1.3 percent go to juries, and surveys show 77 percent of NM Bar members favor an experimental referee program.
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Billie Surmick
Ruidoso
New Mexico Judicial Council
Lars Bjork
Dist
D.A. MacPherson Jr
Albuquerque
Bjork
New Mexico Bar Association
Harry Stowers
Stowers
MacPherson
Edmund H. Kase III
Soccorro
New Mexico
Kase
Supreme Court
Court of Appeals
Larry Coughenour
Courts
Santa Fe
Fredrick M. Hart
University of New Mexico Law School
Toney Anaya
Coughenour
James Beall