DIRECTIVE NO. 17 v. VERMONT SUPREME CT.

No. 90-102.

576 A.2d 127 (1990)

In re VERMONT SUPREME COURT ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTIVE NO. 17 and Harriet and Donald Smith, et al. v. The VERMONT SUPREME COURT, The Honorable Frederic W. Allen, The Honorable Louis P. Peck, The Honorable Ernest W. Gibson III, The Honorable John A. Dooley, The Honorable James L. Morse, in their Individual Administrative Capacities as Justices of the Vermont Supreme Court.

Supreme Court of Vermont.

April 24, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Evers of Langrock Sperry Parker & Wool, Middlebury, Jerome F. O'Neill of O'Neill and Crawford, Burlington, and Deborah T. Bucknam, St. Johnsbury, for petitioners.

Jeffrey L. Amestoy, Atty. Gen. and Marilyn Signe Skoglund, Asst. Atty. Gen., Montpelier, for respondents.

Before ALLEN, C.J., and PECK, GIBSON, DOOLEY and MORSE, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

On January 11, 1990, this Court issued Administrative Directive No. 17, which stated as follows:

The resources available to the Judiciary have been drastically reduced for the remainder of the fiscal year 1990. Accordingly, each superior and district court judge and clerk is hereby ordered to postpone until after July 1, 1990 any civil jury case for which the jury has not yet been drawn. The administrative judge is hereby authorized...

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