Feature - September 30, 2020
Highlights and key statistics from the 2019-2020 court year.
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Budgeting within the judicial branch is complex, collaborative, and time-consuming and the courts are integral to the process.
Feature - September 23, 2020
Over the past week, justices of the California Supreme Court have reflected on the personal impact U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had on their lives and careers.
"It feels impossible to overestimate the importance that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had on my generation of female lawyers and jurists," wrote Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye. "She was one of ours."
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The table below shows emergency orders that have been signed by the Chief Justice. Additional emergency orders will be added once they become available.
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Created by constitutional amendment, the council is the policymaking body for California’s state court system
The 21 voting members include the Chief Justice, 14 judicial officers, 4 attorneys, and 1 member from each house of the Legislature
The council also has advisory members who include judicial officers and court executives or administrators
The council carries out much of its work through the hundreds of volunteers on its
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To address the challenges this presents, the Judicial Council of California, the policymaking body of the California courts, is undertaking implementation of a statewide language access plan that provides a consistent direction for language access throughout the judiciary.
News Release - August 13, 2020
The Judicial Council voted to end two temporary emergency rules governing evictions and judicial foreclosures, to stay in effect through midnight Sept. 1.
News Release - August 11, 2020
San Francisco—Judicial Council of California voting members today received a circulating order to vote by August 13, 2020, on a proposal to end the temporary emergency rules on evictions and foreclosures.
News Release - June 17, 2020
The Supreme Court Committee on Judicial Ethics Opinions (CJEO) this month posted a summary of oral advice stating appellate justices should disqualify themselves from a case if they were removed by peremptory challenge while hearing the case as a trial judge.
News Release - June 15, 2020
The Supreme Court of California adopted a slate of changes to the California Code of Judicial Ethics, which include allowing judges to speak publicly about a pending case if they are criticized for a ruling during an election or recall campaign.
News Release - June 8, 2020
The Judicial Council of California will consider ending three temporary emergency rules governing evictions, judicial foreclosures and an emergency bail schedule, as California begins a phased re-opening and courts restore services shuttered due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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News Release - May 29, 2020
The Judicial Council approved a revision to emergency rule 9 regarding the statutes of limitations for filing civil cases during the COVID-19 pandemic, and to clarify that the emergency rule also applies to “statutes of repose”.