The move could mean a thousand courthouse employees lose their jobs and longer workloads for judges.

"You cut salaries, you cut people. You cut people, you cut services," attorney Jim Banks warns. "The court system is known to be slow, at least in the publics mind, this is going to slow things even more, there will just be things that never get to court."

The plan calls for the elimination of the mediation system. It's in place now to help lessen the workloads of judges and speed up many cases.

If the state's 900 mediators are shown the door, those duties go back to judges and that could mean longer waits for criminals waiting trial, couples seeking a divorce and landlords trying to evict tenants.

"Most of the cases that have to go to a judge have to go through a mediator to get there," Banks says. "So if all these cases go through a mediator and you cut out mediation services, its going to increase the work load for the judges dramatically. And they can barely keep up with the work load now."