With the First Judicial District down to $10,000 in operating funds and court-appointed counsel, arbitrators, court reporters and court interpreters not being paid, the mood among many members of Philadelphia’s bench and bar is one of unease and apprehension about the courts’ future.
Philadelphia’s courts may have to be closed for six weeks or lay off 180 workers out of their base of 1,850 employees if the city is not able to secure permission in Harrisburg for a sales tax increase and pension recalculations, The Legal has reported.
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