News Update: Laid Off Santa Cruz Officials Lead to Delays

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SANTA CRUZ – A half-dozen lawyers arrived in Judge Timothy Volkmann’s courtroom Tuesday to argue a hotly contested question about the right of UC Santa Cruz to request increased city water service for expanded campus housing.

But one vital person wasn’t there to participate, the court reporter, whose record of the proceedings would be critical to any potential future appeal. The absence caused just a week’s delay in the matter – a nanosecond in the world of criminal justice – but it pointed out a larger problem the court system is facing as it adjusts to a wave of layoffs.

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