So, the courts are closing one Wednesday per month thanks to the latest budget deal.
This will affect all of your filing deadlines, because these will not count as court days. At least they settled on a uniform day, state-wide. Our local presiding judge explained to us that Wednesday was chosen due to criminal arraignments needing to be processed in a certain amount of time.
So, this will slow down the law and motion calendar in civil. It may be just a little, but it seems to me like the idea of filing to trial in one year for unlimited civil cases is getting less and less realistic. I know some judges don’t mind going to Track II, but some really, really don’t want continuances.
I think it’s time to reconsider these time lines and the civil law and motion filing deadlines based on this.
UPDATE: Apparently, the furlough days will be treated as holidays, extending deadlines by a day.
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Can anyone tellme how to access the complete CA court decision supporting the Governor’s furlough plan?
specifically, what, if anything did the decison include as a definition of the “financial crisis” so often mentioned as being in the decison? Can we have an exit strategy? Can Arnold tell usnow what measure(s) of fiancial crisis we can watch the levels of and can he tell us that what level of fiancial crisis, so defined, will justofy eliminating, 1, 2, and then the 3rd of the 3 furloughdays. Would anything less than this or a clear alterative to definition and exiting be called “accountability” or “trasparency?” And why do I not hear these questions beinf asked until answered by the Governor?
Thanks for your blog and any answers you can give.
zn you please send my comment to my email address? I can’t copy it from your blog, and I’m going tostart asking others these questions.
Thanks, E.C. Schumacher, PhD
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