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Judges and Judiciary

Jan. 24, 2014

A view from an independent calendar courtroom

The volume of motions increased as the civil courts reorganized last spring, and courts must adjust. By Richard Fruin


By Richard Fruin


The volume of motions, and the frequency of multi-issue motions, increased as the civil courts reorganized last spring to cope with the staff reductions caused by the budget cuts imposed on the courts. Eleven individual calendar courts were closed in the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in Los Angeles, their case inventories reassigned among the remaining 34 individual calendar courts. As a partial offset, personal injury cases were removed from the indiv...

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