“Autonomy, Access, and Accountability” Sparks Debate at Kentucky Court Crisis Symposium (Part 1)
Constitutional scholars and state supreme court justices discuss the role state constitutions play in the court funding debate. Arguing that the legislature cannot deny court funding to perform essential functions without violating the separation of powers, panelists are not optimistic the recession will bring an end to the crisis in state courts.
Panelists say that judges may have to take their funding cases to the courts to guarantee the separation of powers, right to remedy and open courts clauses in the state constitutions.
The 90-minute session, “Court Funding: Autonomy, Access, and Accountability,” is part of a Sept. 23-24 symposium on state court underfunding, sponsored by the Kentucky Law Journal, the American Bar Association and the National Center for State Courts.
Speakers in order of appearance:
Kate Anderson, Kentucky Law Journal Features Editor
Moderator: Jean Toal, Chief Justice, South Carolina Supreme Court
Christine Durham, Chief Justice, Utah Supreme Court
G. Alan Tarr, Center for Constitutional Studies, Rutgers University
Bob Peck, Center for Constitutional Litigation
David Barron, Harvard Law School
Peggy Quince, former Chief Justice, Florida Supreme Court
2:13 PM March 24, 2012
My problem with ABA is that it is eexnpsive so out of the range of many parents. (how good is it if you have to go into debt up to your eyeballs?) Also ABA is not the gold standard they would make it out to be and pure ABA often makes for a child who achieves but is still not quite natural.Floortime and similar therapies can be done at home by all parents and is mostly free (possibly a few bucks to learn a routine but I did it straight from the book as there were no consultants in 1999)I also agree that time and maturity change things as well.Why do some kids get better and others don’t? I still think some kids on the spectrum also have a degree of mental retardation or other barriers described by Greenspan in his book The Child with Special Needs.The other issue is that there have always been children like this but in the days of larger families; there was less expectation because you didn’t have all your eggs in the one/two basket of our smaller nuclear families of today. If you look back on some family histories; there were kids who were a little slow or “off” and some just improved through being constantly exposed to siblings etc and the parents working with them. Today people have less time and fewer children so it’s a “crisis”. Just my two cents.