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Law Practice,
Judges and Judiciary

Dec. 29, 2021

Backlogs remain despite courts’ struggles against COVID

While many courts in California were able to reduce the case pileups, rising COVID numbers and the looming threat of the omicron variant could mean more challenges to come in 2022.

Backlogs remain despite courts’ struggles against COVID
Contra Costa County Presiding Judge Rebecca C. Hardie. (Daily Journal photo)

Despite the rollout of vaccines and the lifting of stay-at-home mandates across the state, California courts continued to struggle with case backlogs in 2021. While many have been able to mitigate these pileups through a variety of methods, rising COVID numbers and the looming threat of the omicron variant could mean more challenges to come in 2022.

"Our court does have a backlog, just like every other court in the state, and I'm assuming i...

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