Reply #43: "Limited jurisdiction" does not always mean judges voted in,

[mcscajun]

judges of the type in the NYT series, but you're certainly not going to find (I HOPE!) untrained judges with no legal backgroud outside of "limited jurisdiction" courts, so it's a good place to start. I used "limited jurisdiction" as it seem to be a catch-all term; some states call them "Village Courts" or "Town and Village Courts", others "Justice of the Peace Courts", still others by other names, entirely.

Not a bad notion to write the NYT on this one. If they don't get specific by the end of the series, they certainly SHOULD provide the info as a response to an LTTE.