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Court Restructuring and Simplification

The Fund for Modern Courts supports simplifying our state's trial court system to make it more efficient, effective and accessible.   The current court structure is too costly, confusing, and discourages and impedes litigants, both private citizens and business, from pursuing their rights. Consolidating the eleven courts of records into a more simplified system is long overdue. Greater efficiencies achieved through court restructuring would return the focus back to the administration of   justice, where it belongs. Public confidence would be restored to a system that has long been viewed in the public eye as insurmountable, and a new, simplified structure would promote public understanding about how the court system operates.

On This Topic

2007 Policy Statement on Court Reform and Restructuring

Related Information
Report on Commission of the Future of the Courts of the State of New York (PDF; 372kb)
Appendices: Report on Commission of the Future of the Courts of the State of New York (PDF; 3.2mb)
NYS Office of Court Administration Budgetary Impact of Trial Court Restructuring (PDF)
Atlantic Legal Foundation Report on Restructuring
League of Women Voters
Center for Government Research


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