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Article: Signs of Progress, Problems In Merged Court's First Year.(report on unification of Los Angeles Superior Court and county's municipal courts)(Brief Article)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- January 8, 2001
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A year after taking effect, court unification seems to be working, according to many local officials. But inadequate court technologies and facilities could cause major problems in the future, they say.
Officially approved by judges in the state's 58 counties last January, a year and a half after California voters passed Proposition 220 permitting judges to decide whether to unify their two-tier court systems, the merger consolidated the Los Angeles Superior Court with the county's 24 municipal courts, making the newly unified Superior Court the largest trial court of general jurisdiction in the nation.
Unification was expected to yield significant ...