Maine Administrative Office of the Courts - Annual Report, 1978

• NCJ Number: 80866
• Date Published: 1979
• Length: 184 pages
• Corporate Author: Maine Administrative Office of the Courts
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/
• Publication Type: Statistics
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This 1978 report describes the functions of Maine courts and provides information on the court budget, the court statistical reporting system, judicial education, the personnel system, and court reorganization. Appendixes, which form the bulk of the report, include court statistics for the years 1976-78.

Abstract

The administrative office of the courts was created in 1975 to serve the entire judicial department in the areas of caseflow management, statistics, facilities, etc. Information on the supreme judicial court and law court, on the superior court, on the district court, and on the administrative court is also provided. The report indicates that judicial department expenditures for fiscal year 1978 totaled $7,536,596. The functional committees within the judicial department are listed, and several of these are described. The statistical appendixes present data on cases in the law courts, superior courts, district courts, and administrative courts. An organizational chart is included.