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Just over five months later, when Fulton’s courts finally reopened, county leaders embarked on a plan to address the backlog—which, after being inventoried, totaled 148,209 open and active cases. Fulton, the state’s largest and most populous county with Georgia’s largest court case backlog, chose a name just as big for the strategy: Project Orca.<ref>[https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2023/08/28/how-fulton-countys-project-orca-devoured-108661-court-cases-and-counting/ ''How Fulton County’s Project Orca Devoured 108,661 Court Cases and Counting'', by Everett Catts (August 28, 2023)].</ref> | Just over five months later, when Fulton’s courts finally reopened, county leaders embarked on a plan to address the backlog—which, after being inventoried, totaled 148,209 open and active cases. Fulton, the state’s largest and most populous county with Georgia’s largest court case backlog, chose a name just as big for the strategy: Project Orca.<ref>[https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2023/08/28/how-fulton-countys-project-orca-devoured-108661-court-cases-and-counting/ ''How Fulton County’s Project Orca Devoured 108,661 Court Cases and Counting'', by Everett Catts (August 28, 2023)].</ref> | ||
The funds allocated were just as large: the county used $75 million of the $200 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act monies it received in 2021 for pandemic-related programs to eliminate the case backlog. They must be spent by Dec. 31, 2024. | The funds allocated were just as large: the county used $75 million of the $200 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act monies it received in 2021 for pandemic-related programs to eliminate the case backlog. They must be spent by Dec. 31, 2024.<ref>[https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2023/08/28/how-fulton-countys-project-orca-devoured-108661-court-cases-and-counting/ ''How Fulton County’s Project Orca Devoured 108,661 Court Cases and Counting'', by Everett Catts (August 28, 2023)].</ref> | ||
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According to an article written by Everett Catts of the Daily Report<ref>[https://thewikilaw.org/wiki/images/2/29/Fulton_Countys_Project_Orca_Devours_108%2C661_Court_Cases_and_Counting_Daily_Report.pdf ''How Fulton County’s Project Orca Devoured 108,661 Court Cases and Counting'', by Everett Catts (August 28, 2023)]</ref>: | According to an article written by Everett Catts of the Daily Report<ref>[https://thewikilaw.org/wiki/images/2/29/Fulton_Countys_Project_Orca_Devours_108%2C661_Court_Cases_and_Counting_Daily_Report.pdf ''How Fulton County’s Project Orca Devoured 108,661 Court Cases and Counting'', by Everett Catts (August 28, 2023)]</ref>: | ||
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