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Government

Dec. 27, 2011

Trial courts anticipate tougher times in 2012

For a number of the state's trial courts faced with unprecedented budget cuts, the year was marked by layoffs, long lines and stacks of unprocessed paperwork piling up in clerks' offices.


By Amy Yarbrough


Daily Journal Staff Writer


For a number of the state's trial courts faced with unprecedented budget cuts, the year was marked by layoffs, long lines and stacks of unprocessed paperwork piling up in clerks' offices.


Their resolution for the new year? Survive even worse budget cuts expected to come.


Saying it had no other alternative for absorbing $350 million in budget cuts to the branch, the Judicial Council...

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