Court Chief Highlights Judiciary's Efforts to Overcome Funding Gap

• Jurisdiction: California,United States
• Citation: Vol. 04 No. 2014 Pg. 05
• Date: 01 April 2014
• Publication year: 2014
• Pages: 05
• Year: 2014
• topic: Business of Law,Civil Rights,Public Sector Law

Court chief highlights judiciary's efforts to overcome funding gap No. 2014 #05 California Bar Journal April, 2014

Amy Yarbrough, Staff Writer.

Addressing lawmakers in Sacramento last month, Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye spoke of fairness, collaboration and ongoing projects to ensure more Californians have access to justice.

She also did not miss the opportunity to make a case for the state's financially strapped courts.

With the nation preparing to mark the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act this year, Cantil-Sakauye called it tragic that budget cuts have shuttered courthouses, delaying cases and making it difficult for many Californians just to get to court.

"As you know, the reductions have fallen hardest on the process of civil cases. And so we face astonishing and harmful delays in urgent family matters, in business contracts, wrongful termination, discrimination cases, personal...