Litigation
Sep. 17, 2010
Expedited Jury Trial Legislation: An Unusual Agreement Between Those Who Usually Disagree
After decades of confrontations, two organizations join under a common cause, by Christopher B. Dolan, Consumer Attorneys of California and John H. Sullivan, Civil Justice Association of California.
On April 30, 2009, a most diverse collection of organizations met, under the cloud of California's fiscal crisis and budget cuts, at the Administrative Office of the Courts in San Francisco to discuss the increasing backlog in state civil trials.
The group heard from a representative of the National Center on State Courts and a New York state judge. But most interesting was the message from a plaintiffs' attorney and a defense attorney, both from...
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