Judicial Branch

Ky. Judicial Branch faces cuts

24 May 2012

Departments throughout the commonwealth are seeing reductions in budgets and services to reduce expenditures and debt. Now an entire branch is seeing the need for days off to help cut costs.

Viewpoints: Myths and facts about judicial branch amid budget cutbacks

18 May 2012

California's judicial branch has been around since statehood in 1850. But never in the 162-year history of the state has the judiciary faced the problems and challenges that it faces today – primarily as a result of the Great Recession and the budget cutbacks imposed on the courts. As established in the California Constitution of 1879, the judicial branch is composed of a Supreme Court, several ...

Proposed budget cuts would hit courts again

15 May 2012

Administrators, judges and other top court personnel from throughout the state are in emergency mode after Gov. Jerry Brown Monday issued a revised state budget that calls for $544 million in cuts to the judicial branch and a delay in courthouse construction projects, including the building of a new Shasta County Courthouse.