San Francisco Superior Court at 850 Bryant Street with posted notices annoucing many offices within the building closed in compliance with the shelter in place order. Photo: Jason Doiy/ALM
Recently released statistics from state courts in Alameda, Santa Clara and San Francisco indicate how court closures at the end of March affected the number of civil filings in the first quarter and point to the backlog courts will face as they begin to reopen to non-emergency cases.
May 11, 2020 at 06:00 AM
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As COVID-19 court closures that took hold in the last two weeks of March—the last two weeks of the first quarter of the year—led to a dramatic drop in the number of new civil filings seen in three major San Francisco Bay Area courts.
According to data provided by Superior Court officials in Alameda, Santa Clara and San Francisco Counties, noncriminal filings were down significantly for the first three months of 2020 compared to the same period last year.
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