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Government

May 5, 2011

Courts Bill Moves Forward With Changes

The state Assembly Judiciary Committee voted to pass the controversial Trial Court Rights Act out of committee Tuesday, keeping the measure's prospects alive, but not before the legislation received a wholesale rewrite.


By Emily Green


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SACRAMENTO - The Assembly Judiciary Committee voted Tuesday to pass the controversial Trial Court Rights Act out of committee Tuesday, keeping the measure's prospects alive, but not before the legislation received a wholesale rewrite.


Despite voicing deep reservations about the bill at a public hearing Tuesday, legislators on the committee opted to pass a severely truncated form of Assembly Bill 12...

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