Ok I gave you the US Supreme Court and the State Supreme Court but a couple of you asked about so here it is...the link to the state court for Olmsted County. Go ahead a surf around and post what you find. See if you can find out when your friend court case is being heard, figure of what types of cases are heard on what days, see what the court is busy with these days.
Mr. Thompson
When I was looking around on the state court website for Olmsted County I found some interesting things. One thing that I found interesting was the Olmsted County court has seven supreme court justices instead of the nine that the United States supreme court has. Another interesting thing that I found out is that the state court for Olmsted County hears oral arguments during the first two week of each month, September through June. When they aren't hearing oral arguments, the justices are writing opinions and reading briefs. The Olmsted county state court hears about 12% of the 600-700 cases they receive each year.
ReplyDeleteSarah Eckerman: Hour 2
I have never actually thought about the Olmsted Court and so looking over the website was quite interesting. The building holds a lot more than I would have imagined; law enforcement agencies, the jail, and county and city offices. I went in a little further and clicked directly into the Olmsted County through the districts pages and one could access a lot of what they would need such as adoption papers, prices for things such as Will Deposits, and phone numbers of almost anyone in the court you'd need to get a hold of. Since I have never even known there was a site with so much court information, it was all pretty interesting and I am kind of surprised anyone could have so much access.
ReplyDeleteMegan Haynes: hour 4
I had no idea that Rochester's first courthouse dated back to the 1860's. It's too bad that the courthouse in Stillwater was destroyed because judging by the picture, it looks like a beautiful buliding. Looking through the website, I noticed that they made a lot of brouchures and documents filled with info that can be printed off by those who go onto the website. This seems like it could be very helpful and useful to people who need to gather more info about the courts and procedures.
ReplyDeleteBrock Stevens, Hour 1