Check out Winning by Default, my contribution to the first @statesforum.bsky.social journal -- about how state civil courts hearing so many debt collection and housing cases can adapt to function without defendants, without lawyers, and ultimately, without courts.
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Winning By Default - The States Forum
State civil courts are the backstop of American justice, handling 98% of civil cases filed in the United States. Their dockets are filled with the everyday
![TODAY. MY STUDENTS TELL ME
Today, my students tell me that I look like someone who never drives a car, that I look like I am someone who takes a train everywhere, and I love that they see me like this, the same way that I love that one day, a student asks me, do you buy your clothes on english teacher dot com?, when the truth is, I would if such a place existed. Another day, a student tells me that I seem like the kind of person who is good at tending plants, that I seem exactly like someone who would care for dying plants and maybe even heal them, only I am the one adding maybe, because they said it with such conviction and another student agreed with them like this was simple and true, and I laughed, told them they were wrong, that I wish I were more like my grandmother, who was in fact a tender of gardens and all green things and what I don't tell my students is that I am so bad at taking care of anything including myself [plz let Tom know if you need the full alt text! out of room]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vcaay2y6qaxmedo6adtgegz/bafkreih5xe3v7rtkfpzymbsdxqay3b6iwohtrbepz2wigwfwaud2rgkrve)
