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Judges and Judiciary

Aug. 4, 2011

Slashing the courts’ budget has its own steep price

Drastic budget cuts threaten the California judiciary's tradition of integrity and innovation. By Laurence Hutt and Sharon Mayo of Arnold & Porter LLP


California has a long and venerable tradition of integrity and innovation in its judiciary: it has provided leadership to courts nationwide since at least the days of the intellectual and forward-thinking Chief Justices Phil Gibson, Roger Traynor and Donald Wright; it was one of the original court systems to embrace "fast track" for civil cases; it has created "specialty courts" as needs have arisen to expedite and streamline the handling of various typ...

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