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Letter to the Editor

Feb. 24, 2015

LETTER: Courts must unite to fight for funding

I urge my colleagues from courts that are underfunded, but less so than ours, to join those of us who work in courts with an even greater need to persuade the Legislature and governor to appropriate funds. By Harold W. Hopp

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR COLUMN

The article "Courts losing money under new funding method cry foul" (Feb. 12) starkly illustrates how, as California's trial courts begin to reduce the historic disparities in funding, the money budgeted is far from enough. By reducing the disparities in funding among trial courts, Workload-based Allocation and Funding Methodology (WAFM), the new funding formula that is gradually being phased in over several years, spreads the ...

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