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  1. @ConsumerAttysCA Thanks CACA! Happy holiday reading!
  2. Judiciary spokesman says chief justice just got the report today and it was either release it late or wait til Tuesday. No link yet.
  3. CA Judiciary releases report critical of its administration tonight. Friday. Before a three-day weekend.
  4. Fresno Bee: Fresno Superior Court to close all courts outside city of Fresno by August due to budget cuts.
  5. Sad we don't ads like this in CA. RT @atlblogThis Is Either the Best or Worst Judicial Campaign Ad Ever bit.ly/KlqqUD -CD
  6. Told that Sacto PJ Laurie Earl was there, too, along with other big-county judges.
  7. PJs Feinstein (SF) & Edmon (LA) spotted at the Capitol today, meeting with lawmakers on courts budget & proposed reserves axing.
  8. LA Court leaders say they'll have to cut another $70M - $140M if guv's revised budget is enacted.
  9. No Republicans among 17 judges Gov. Brown appointed today. A few D-to-S. Mostly Democrats. A different approach from Gov. Schwarzenegger.
  10. Gov names former State Bar exec dir Judy Johnson to the Contra Costa County bench.
  11. Halim Dhanidina, new LA judge, will become CA's "first American-Muslim" jurist, gov's office says, citing Muslim Public Affairs Council.
  12. And OC Superior Court Judge David Thompson goes to the Fourth District appellte court.
  13. Gov. Brown has appointed Santa Clara County Counsel Miguel Marquez to the Sixth District Court of Appeal
  14. Plaintiff & defense attorneys saying there's dwindling incentive to OK $50M in new fees, proposed in budget, if they'll be swept by state.
  15. Earl: Like prisons, courts "need a realignment plan," not just big cuts.
  16. Sacto Ct PJ Laurie Earl says it's fallacy that trial courts, in guv's words, have been held harmless in recent cuts: $606M "hardly harmless"
  17. Court leaders circling AOC's finance director; "What are we supposed to do? ....."