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Government

Apr. 16, 2011

Committee to Hear Court-Reform Bill

The powerful Assembly Rules Committee has granted the Judiciary Committee's request to hear the controversial Trial Courts Rights Act after initially bypassing that committee in favor of another one.


By Emily Green


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SACRAMENTO - The powerful Assembly Rules Committee has given a nod to the judiciary's old guard in resolving a tussle over which of two committees would consider the controversial Trial Courts Rights Act.


In granting the state judiciary committee's request to hear the bill after it was initially assigned to the Committee on Accountability and Administrative Review, the rules committee appeased...

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