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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...
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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.

Feature - May 2, 2016

Supreme Court Begins Live Webcasting

The Supreme Court of California will begin live webcasting of its early-May three-day oral argument calendar session in San Francisco, beginning May 3. The decision to webcast the court's oral argument calendar sessions was announced by Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye in her 2016 State of the Judiciary Address to a joint session of the California Legislature in March.
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News Release - August 25, 2016

Judicial Council Approves Process for Awarding $25 Million for Court Innovations

At its meeting today, the Judicial Council adopted a process to award $25 million in grant funding to promote innovative and efficient programs in the courts.
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The council receives information about the court innovation grant program included in the Budget Act of 2016.

Feature - December 15, 2016

Creating Access: The Judicial Council’s 2016 Annual Review

In 2016, the Judicial Council continued focusing on efforts to better stabilize branch funding, improve branch governance, and to address concerns about fairness raised by the public, our sister branches of government, and stakeholders throughout the state.
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News Release - June 16, 2017

Supreme Court to launch eFiling July 10, 2017

SAN FRANCISCO—Jorge Navarrete, Court Administrator and Clerk of the Supreme Court of California today announced that the Supreme Court will launch voluntary eFiling under California Rule of Court 8.70 beginning July 10, 2017, and the program will become mandatory effective September 1, 2017.
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News Release - July 7, 2017

Supreme Court Publishes eFiling Rules

SAN FRANCISCO—The Supreme Court of California has published its eFiling rules that will support the launch on Monday July 10, 2017 of its electronic filing system. The court has adopted a phased approach to the system’s implementation, which will initially be voluntary for filers, but become mandatory on September 1, and reduces the related number of paper copies required to two.
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Feature - August 28, 2017

Courts Improving Service for Limited-English Speakers

Did you know that Spanish is the most requested language by limited-English-proficiency court users?
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Feature - August 30, 2017

California Supreme Court Helps to Shed Light on Legal System

Webcasts of the court’s oral arguments have been accessed more than 44,000 times since it began streaming them last year.
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News Release - September 1, 2017

Supreme Court Launches Mandatory eFiling

Court publishes amended rules, FAQs for mandatory electronic filing beginning September 1.
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News Release - March 2, 2018

Council Approves Framework for IT Disaster Recovery Planning

The Judicial Council at its March 2 business meeting approved a framework to help courts and other judicial branch entities with disaster recovery planning efforts, which are critical in enabling the recovery of data and services in the event of a disaster.
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News Release - April 20, 2018

California Supreme Court Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

California Supreme Court Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar this week was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s most prestigious honor societies.
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Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar of the California Supreme Court

Feature - June 8, 2018

Court Interpreters’ Conference Brings a Host of Languages to the Judicial Council

Court interpreters from around the world convened at the Judicial Council June 5 for the start of a four-day conference on the challenges and solutions in legal interpreting in the U.S. and Europe.
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