Word: backlog
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speedy and public trial," but in many states the courts keep falling behind. In New York City, for example, felony defendants get indicted at a rate of 25,000 a year, while the disposition of such cases runs to only 20,000. As of last January, there was a backlog of 10,000 cases, and one quarter of those kept in jail wait more than six months before their cases are disposed...
There are an estimated 4000 Radcliffe Senior Honors theses presently in the Schlesinger archives. Glushien said yesterday that it is not clear what will be done about the backlog...
...January, 1972, HEW received more charges of sex discrimination than of discrimination against all minorities put together. Stanley Pottinger, director of the Office of Civil Rights, claimed in a letter in January to a women from the National Organization for Women (NOW), that his office had a backlog of more than 100 cases. "Given the limits of our human power" he admitted some cases would have to be given a lower priority. He said his office would "concentrate primarily on patterns of discrimination rather than complaints from individuals." Partly because of the deluge of complaints. HEW asked Congress for more...
...dissatisfaction with the system now in effect. That system is based on the Anglo-Saxon common law of torts (wrongs), under which someone must be proved "at fault" before a court can award damages. With the accident rate increasing, the job of establishing such proof has created a huge backlog of cases in the nation's courts. More than half the suits growing out of auto accidents take two years or longer to come to trial. All too often, that leaves victims to cope in the interim as best they can with staggering medical bills. In addition, plaintiffs frequently...
...asked that it be given power to oversee the entire process of transferring stock ownership from one buyer to another. The unwieldy process now involves bankers and other transfer agents who are not directly subject to regulation. Failure to coordinate their efforts helped to cause the backlog of paperwork that did much to bring on the 1970 crisis. The SEC also wants the right to disapprove any new rules made by the self-regulatory bodies, to enforce the exchange's rules and, if warranted, to stiffen the penalties meted out by the exchange to erring members...