SAN FRANCISCO — Hiring is frozen. Travel’s cut off. Reserves have dwindled. And even with the courts shut down monthly for mandatory furloughs, San Francisco Superior Court is eyeing a projected $10.7 million budget deficit for the next fiscal year.
That’s the daunting outlook facing Presiding Judge James McBride, and why he turned Wednesday to San Francisco’s civil litigators, whom he invited to the court for a rundown on the budget and potential cuts to court services — including layoffs or the specter of closing civil courtrooms.
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