CM Publisher Has HuffPo Piece On GOP Civil Tort Priorities
State Chief Justice Defends Admin Record
Making A Business Case For Fully Funding Courts
A.G. Holder Exiting Amid ‘Unfinished’ Work With Immigration Courts
TV Station Blasts Chief Justice’s Use of CHP ‘Armed Taxis”
Finally: Capacity Cited In Immigration Courts Crisis
Gov. Brown Calls Child-Immigration Crisis A ‘Tragedy,’ Critic Says Comments Are ‘Empty’
California Gov. Jerry Brown, who has said the Golden State could be a “leader” on national immigration policy even though the issues involved are usually federally controlled, has called the border-crossing crisis involving unaccompanied children a “crisis,” but stopped well short of commenting on what the state might do about the situation, according to a Fresno Bee newspaper report. The Bee also reports that Brown “…accused critics of exploiting the situation for political gain.”
‘One-Day’ Divorce Is National Trend
In California, says the report, roughly three-fourths of family law litigants lack lawyers, according to Maureen F. Hallahan, supervising judge in the family law division at San Diego Superior Court. Typically, people file initial divorce paperwork on their own, but they don’t know what to do next, so their file languishes for months. Budget cuts in the state courts reduced available personnel and made the problem worse.
Like most “one-day” programs, the term doesn’t mean a divorce is truly started and completed in a single day — residency and notification requirements have to be met first. You must, for example, already have filed a divorce petition and served your spouse with divorce papers to participate. But the program does allow you to wrap things up in a single day, or even a matter of hours, once you meet the initial criteria. “This is designed to help people get through the system,” said Judge Hallahan.
Read the story here: California Pioneers the Court-Aided One-Day Divorce
Presiding Judge: Justice Rationing To Continue
Secret Deals May Mean More Court Money
The Contra Costa Times reports that this year’s deal-making is going nicely, saying that “… the knockdown, drag-out partisan fights, stretching on for months, are history. These days, state budget negotiations are downright cordial.” And the paper adds that “… according to Capitol sources briefed on closed-door budget negotiations, the administration of Gov. Jerry Brown and Democratic lawmakers have quietly reached deals on funding prekindergarten, pumping more money into the state’s beleaguered court system and funding levels for the state’s controversial bullet train.”