Gridlock continues in federal courts 

By Lucia Walinchus
Special to The Daily Record
Posted: 5:37 pm Wed, February 1, 2012

Thanks to staff layoffs and a judicial vacancy, lawyers filing civil cases in Rochester’s federal court can now expect to wait up to seven months to have a motion heard, and relief is nowhere in sight — together a new vacancy, the shrinking federal budget and election-year gridlock promise to make the wait even longer.  In ...