Lincoln County Commission v. Forty-Fifth Judicial Circuit

This-case is'a petition for review of a decision by the Judicial Finance Commission and concerns the reasonableness of the 45th Judicial Circuit Court’s (“45th Circuit”) 2016 budget as submitted to the Lincoln County Commission (“County Commission”). The Judicial Finance Com*358mission found $26,525 of the total requested budget estimate for attorneys’ fees was speculative and unreasonable. The Judicial Finance Commission’s decision is affirmed because $26,525, representing an estimate of future attorneys’ fees, was an unreasonable budgetary request.

Background

Over the last several years, the 45th…