dragonfly
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Post by dragonfly on Feb 14, 2014 20:43:31 GMT -5
Greetings all, this just in- Might there be one or more NHCs opening? I heard there might be one in Detroit - has anyone else heard about this? df
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Post by lawbird on Feb 14, 2014 21:18:30 GMT -5
I heard Portland. Don't remember the source.
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Post by Dark Lord of the Sith on Feb 15, 2014 1:33:24 GMT -5
I hope Portland, OR...love that town!
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Post by lawbird on Feb 15, 2014 3:05:31 GMT -5
Just sold my house there. Not a town that is conducive to owning your own small business. And, it rains nine months out of the year. I'm glad to be gone from there.
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Post by southeastalj on Feb 15, 2014 11:48:11 GMT -5
there are no additional NHC's planned and no money for any if they were planned. If money does appear to open additional offices the priority would be for the 8 traditional hearing offices that were planned to open in 2011 and cancelled due to budget issues.
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Post by Malice Aforethought on Feb 15, 2014 12:03:12 GMT -5
Regional centers rather than NHCs are planned for a few different areas.
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Post by Malice Aforethought on Feb 15, 2014 12:05:34 GMT -5
Detroit & Cleveland are on tap for RCACs.
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Post by sealaw90 on Feb 15, 2014 13:27:20 GMT -5
there are no additional NHC's planned and no money for any if they were planned. If money does appear to open additional offices the priority would be for the 8 traditional hearing offices that were planned to open in 2011 and cancelled due to budget issues. where were those 8 offices located?
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Post by 71stretch on Feb 15, 2014 16:43:33 GMT -5
Copied from a 2011 post (the search function on this forum really DOES work well!)
Rochester NY Hoover, AL St Paul, MN Muncie, IN Marquette, MI El Paso TX Helena, MT Eureka, CA
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Post by prescient on Feb 15, 2014 17:53:32 GMT -5
Regional centers rather than NHCs are planned for a few different areas. what is a regional center?
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Post by southeastalj on Feb 15, 2014 18:45:49 GMT -5
Detroit & Cleveland are on tap for RCACs. CAC usually stands for a case assistance center like the national one in St. Louis. That would be a combination of a pulling and writing unit. CAC's don't conduct hearings.
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Post by Gaidin on Feb 15, 2014 21:07:08 GMT -5
Greetings all, this just in- Might there be one or more NHCs opening? I heard there might be one in Detroit - has anyone else heard about this? df My question is IF they open new offices how do you all think they will allow people on the Register to amend their GAL? Sent from my DROID RAZR HD using proboards
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Post by patiently on Feb 15, 2014 21:30:18 GMT -5
No, sorry
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Post by bartleby on Feb 16, 2014 7:01:23 GMT -5
"CAC usually stands for a case assistance center like the national one in St. Louis. That would be a combination of a pulling and writing unit. CAC's don't conduct hearings."
And the cases you get from them, both pulled and written are usually some of the worst. They have no investment in them as it is almost impossible to return them for correction. They have no relationship with the Judge, so they could care less. JMHO, as usual.
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Post by Malice Aforethought on Feb 16, 2014 9:22:49 GMT -5
I don't think opening new offices, such as what was planned in the past for the locations mentioned by Observer, are on tap for the future.
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Post by southeastalj on Feb 16, 2014 17:25:55 GMT -5
Greetings all, this just in- Might there be one or more NHCs opening? I heard there might be one in Detroit - has anyone else heard about this? df My question is IF they open new offices how do you all think they will allow people on the Register to amend their GAL? Sent from my DROID RAZR HD using proboards There is no chance that any of those proposed hearing offices would come online anytime in the next 2 years. But to answer your question more generally, 8 other offices did open in 2011 and folks on the register who had chosen "all locations" were considered for those offices. Additionally in the past if a new office opened in the same metro area as a city on the register, people who had that city on their GAL were considered for that office. For example, in 2008 the Seven Fields office in suburban Pittsburgh opened but was not on the GAL, so folks who had either indicated ALL or Pittsburgh were considered for Seven Fields.
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venus
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Post by venus on Feb 17, 2014 0:04:19 GMT -5
"CAC usually stands for a case assistance center like the national one in St. Louis. That would be a combination of a pulling and writing unit. CAC's don't conduct hearings." And the cases you get from them, both pulled and written are usually some of the worst. They have no investment in them as it is almost impossible to return them for correction. They have no relationship with the Judge, so they could care less. JMHO, as usual. IMHO, as usual, your opinions would be better kept to yourself. Unfortunately, they probably have a court order that forces you to let them out on occasion just so that they can get away from you for a few minutes of peace and quiet. Your ego truly seems to know no bounds. I can only imagine how miserable you must be, living as an intellectual giant in a land where management and headquarters personnel just don't see the brilliance that spews forth each and every time you experience a verbal bowel movement. There she blows...Bart hates mindless management...another eruption...Smart Bart just passed gas, nope, he was just pontificating about how little Falls Church knows about the grind of public service...check your watch...yep, it's time...look at Ol' Faithless, now he is telling you that over a hundred people at a CAC don't care about anything because they have never met His Royal Fullofspitness. It is not cool and shouldn't be ok to demean an entire group of people that you don't know. How dare you question the work ethic and integrity of an entire office full of people that are doing a service to this country. The unspoken truth is likely that your local office farms out as much of your work as possible because they are tired of swatting flies and dodging the horse's tail every time you open your mouth. If the overly broad and substantively barren conclusions you make on this forum are any indication of the quality of your decision-making process, then you should do the American public a favor and recuse yourself from every case that involves a human being with a soul. At best, you are an anonymous internet bully with a robe. I fear that gives you far too much credit and the reality is much worse. If you had a friend or loved one, they would urge you to retire to a nice shady spot under a bridge where you can wait for an unsuspecting billy goat to devour.
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Post by bartleby on Feb 17, 2014 10:08:14 GMT -5
Wow, Venus, wow, touché, did I hit a nerve?? I am not the only Judge that complains about that. Trust me, we would all rather have our own people write the decision than a CAC Unit or an independent Writing Unit. I have never had anyone say, "Look at this decision from out of office, it is brilliantly written." I do give credit where it's do. I sent management four (4) e-mails last week telling management what good decisions I got from our writers. I almost wonder if you aren't some management schmuck that is so frustrated because you know how little you add to the quality and product of the work we do. I am sorry if reality offends you, but it is what it is.
Oh, by the way, when I was a writer I had to rewrite many, many decisions that were written outside the office over the years.
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Post by southeastalj on Feb 17, 2014 10:13:17 GMT -5
oh never mind
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Post by usnrcwo on Feb 17, 2014 10:27:34 GMT -5
Methinks the Lady doth protest too much.
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