SACRAMENTO — Lawyers looking to the Legislature for a solution to San Francisco Superior Court’s budget troubles may want to focus elsewhere.
With just four weeks left in this year’s legislative session, folks in the Capitol have shown little enthusiasm for bailing out the court despite San Francisco’s plans to close 25 courtrooms and lay off 200 employees. On Thursday, Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye met with Bay Area bar leaders to talk about the budget crisis. They emerged with a positive message but no concrete plan of attack.
