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Judges and Judiciary

Oct. 19, 2010

Outages Keep Shutting Court

With hundreds of litigants and lawyers left waiting in long lines, the Orange County Superior Court shut down its two main courthouses in Santa Ana all day Friday due to a power outage.

By Don J. DeBenedictis

Daily Journal Staff Writer

SANTA ANA - With hundreds of litigants and lawyers left waiting in long lines, the Orange County Superior Court abruptly shut down its two main courthouses in Santa Ana all day Friday due to a power outage.

It was the third time in a little more than a year that problems at a new county power-generation plant shuttered the main courthouse, but the first time the courts were forc...

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