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Article: County group approves study of court district--Lower Valley may get District Court district of its own.
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- Yakima Herald-Republic
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- January 24, 1998
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The Lower Yakima Valley may go from having no District Court
offices at all to being a District Court district on its own.
A committee that advises county commissioners on the structure of
District Court agreed Friday to study the feasibility of creating a
separate court district south of Union Gap, a move that would
require holding court there and assigning a judge specifically to
the area.
Currently, the entire county comprises one court district and
judges may sit in any location designated in the District Court
Districting Plan.
The issue arose after county commissioners agreed to a