Key Takeaway
COVID-19's impact on New York courts and the need for modernizing outdated 1970s court systems and procedures for current legal challenges.
I received an email from someone about my sporadic posts on here and asking if I am alright. To answer, yes, I am alright. I am hunkered here in New York. I have taken to another medium to express my frustrations about what is happening. I never leave home without my N-95 masks. Shout out to my office manager for her foresight on stocking up when this virus initially hit China. She knew what was going to happen. Sadly, I sensed it but only because of what I was seeing in my travelling late last year and earlier this year. Now, you cannot even get bleach or food half the time down here. By the way, please wear the masks if you are around people. It is inconvenient but it is the right thing to do. You do not have the right to get me or anyone else sick.
My favorite topic on here as of late is the Court system. I still cannot fathom how our 1970s model can handle the current reality. Perhaps some of us should sit on a committee and give ideas on how the rules of Court and even the CPLR need to be tweaked to handle the current reality? We can really take lessons from other state systems on how to modernize our systems. The first error I see is using Skype. That is outdated technology: early 2000s.
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