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News Release - October 9, 2012

Courts Streamline Transfer of Case Records to Appellate Court

FRESNO—Thanks to a grant award from the State Justice Institute (SJI), the Court of Appeal, Fifth Appellate District (5DCA) set up the Transcript Assembly Program (TAP) to all trial courts within its jurisdiction.  TAP is a software program that...

News Release - November 2, 2012

Workgroup to Evaluate Progress on Trial Court Funding

Video of Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye introducing the work of the Trial Court Funding Workgroup (2:34min) - See more at: http://www.courts.ca.gov/19538.htm#sthash.IJd5b24G.dpuf SACRAMENTO— A working group established by the Chief Justice and the...

News Release - February 14, 2013

Civic Learning California Summit: Feb 28

SAN FRANCISCO—California Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye and a committee of civic leaders organized a summit to examine successes and barriers to increasing civic literacy in California. The Civic Learning California Summit: Making Democracy Work,...

News Release - November 25, 2013

Keeping Kids in School and Out of Court Summit

California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye will welcome multidisciplinary teams from 32 counties to kick off a signature initiative to keep kids in school and out of court at a two-day summit on December 3-4, in Anaheim. California Superintendent of...

News Release - January 2, 2014

California Supreme Court Admits Undocumented Immigrant to State Bar

  In a decision filed today, the California Supreme Court granted a motion filed by the Committee of Bar Examiners of the State Bar of California to admit Sergio C. Garcia, an undocumented immigrant, to the State Bar, granting Garcia a license to...

News Release - January 23, 2014

Council Approves Expanding Interpreter Use in Civil Cases

SACRAMENTO—At its public meeting on January 23 in Sacramento, the Judicial Council approved recommendations that make it explicit that allowable expenses for court interpreter funds from the Trial Court Trust Fund include costs for: all appearances in...

News Release - April 24, 2014

Council Approves Greater Public Access to Meetings

SAN FRANCISCO—At the first day of its 2-day public meeting on April 24–25 in San Francisco, the Judicial Council approved a new rule of court that provides greater public access to meetings of the council’s internal and advisory committees and of other...

News Release - August 22, 2014

Council Approves Plan for Court Technology

SAN FRANCISCO—At its public meeting on August 21-22, the Judicial Council approved a recommendation from its Technology Committee on a governance and strategic plan for court technology. The plan provides a structure and roadmap for technology...
Court Technology Plan Cover

News Release - January 21, 2015

Council Approves Language Access Plan for Courts

  SACRAMENTO—At its public meeting on January 22, the Judicial Council approved the adoption of a comprehensive language access plan that provides a consistent statewide approach to ensure language access for all limited English proficient court users...
Joint Working Group for California’s Language Access Plan members Judge Manuel J. Covarrubias (left)(co-chair), Justice Maria P. Rivera (co-chair), and Judge Steven K. Austin presented the plan to the council.

News Release - August 20, 2015

Open Meetings Rule Called a Success

  SAN FRANCISCO— Calling the Judicial Council’s year-old open-meeting rule a success, Court of Appeal Justice Douglas P. Miller reported that all the council’s advisory meetings related to court funding and facilities during the first year were open to...