A case in point.
A lady I know was very recently stopped for whatever reason and admonished for going five mph over the limit or going to slow, whatever, there was no citation issued.
However she could not present the most current copy of her auto insurance.
She produced that to the court within days and got verification of its submission.
Many weeks later she was, arrested at her home, handcuffed and incarcerated, for failing to produce that document.
She was fortunate to find someone in the middle of the night with cash to bail her out.
The court admitted their mistake, big whoops, but the County jail would not refund the bail , and a mugshot of her is forever on the internet.
If you don’t think the court system is incompetent and capable of gross error, you are not just rude, you are foolish.
I can see why you want to springboard from a discussion of this story to one about our court system. If so, you need to find someone else to call foolish.
Looking at the "facts" as they are presented here, the only incompetent fools are the subjects themselves. And not without a considerable amount of irony, I should add. They couldn't waste their precious time over a thirty cent discrepancy. The judge couldn't waste his or her precious time over it, so summary judgment was granted (twice!). The lawyer told them that the case isn't worth wasting his or her precious time over. So they're screwed because no one wants to waste their precious time. As I stated, there's a lesson to be learned.