Entities once again demand the creation of federal courts – 07/04/2023 – Panel

Paraná entities linked to federal judges, lawyers, businessmen and politicians once again called for the creation of more federal courts in the country, as provided for in Constitutional Amendment 73, enacted in June 2013 by Congress, but suspended shortly afterwards by the then Minister of the STF ( Federal Supreme Court) Joaquim Barbosa, who at the time pointed out a lack of resources to increase the structure of the Judiciary.

The OAB (Order of Lawyers of Brazil) in Paraná held an open meeting last week on the 10 years of the approval of EC 73 and demanded the resumption of the trial of the subject, today shelved in the STF.

The injunction that suspended EC 73 was signed by Joaquim Barbosa within the scope of an ADI (Direct Action of Unconstitutionality) proposed by Anpaf (National Association of Federal Attorneys). But the merits of the case, which today is in the hands of Minister Luiz Fux, was never judged.

The governor of Paraná, Ratinho Junior (PSD), said that he will include the matter in a meeting that he will have soon with minister Rosa Weber, president of the STF.

The Constitutional Amendment of 2013 provided for the creation of four more federal courts, which added to the five federal courts already existing at the time. It would be a TRF based in Curitiba, serving Paraná, Santa Catarina and Mato Grosso do Sul; a TRF based in Belo Horizonte, which would act only in cases in Minas Gerais; a TRF based in Salvador, with jurisdiction over the states of Bahia and Sergipe; and a TRF based in Manaus, covering Amazonas, Acre, Rondônia and Roraima. Since then, only Minas Gerais has managed to install a TRF.

Even with the Constitutional Amendment suspended since July 2013, the Regional Federal Court of Minas Gerais – called the TRF of the 6th Region – was installed in 2022 under a federal law approved in 2021.

The entities allege that the creation of new federal courts would serve to decentralize the volume of cases accumulated in the existing courts, speeding up the judgments.

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