Housing courts segregate docket trouble to protect routine case processing.

Evidence

In many municipalities landlords are not vigorously prosecuted for housing violations, in part because judges do not give high priority to housing cases when cases of apparently greater public urgency-assaults and narcotics, for example-are also brought before them. … In such cases local housing courts, like the one established in Boston, can segregate these troublesome matters while reserving court time for the regular case load. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 997

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the reader’s parallel literature on street-level discretion routing unwanted work; the docket-priority mechanism is the legal analog of classroom special-unit sorting. — connects to: Civil dockets span contracts, domestic relations, estates, and government-citizen disputes. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2169; Bureaucratic framing makes racial evictions look like routine legal process — Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims…, 400

Broader Connections

• Bureaucratic framing makes racial evictions look like routine legal process #expands (0.85) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 400