For three days starting Tuesday, Seminole County Chief Circuit Judge Alan Dickey has scheduled 300 foreclosure cases.
"If everybody shows up, I'll have about 30 seconds a case," said the judge, who expressed disappointment with the state Legislature's decision to end funding for retired judges who were helping deal with a growing backlog.
One day in early October, Dickey processed about 125 foreclosure cases an hour throughout the day, the judge's assistant said. Many of those, she added, were dismissed or continued.
From the summer of 2010 through this past summer, the state paid retired judges to tackle a backlog of hundreds of thousands of foreclosure cases across Florida. During much of that time, it just so happened that banks cut back on foreclosure cases because of concerns about illegal documents.
"If everybody shows up, I'll have about 30 seconds a case," said the judge, who expressed disappointment with the state Legislature's decision to end funding for retired judges who were helping deal with a growing backlog.
One day in early October, Dickey processed about 125 foreclosure cases an hour throughout the day, the judge's assistant said. Many of those, she added, were dismissed or continued.
From the summer of 2010 through this past summer, the state paid retired judges to tackle a backlog of hundreds of thousands of foreclosure cases across Florida. During much of that time, it just so happened that banks cut back on foreclosure cases because of concerns about illegal documents.
