SACRAMENTO — The leader of California’s Senate says he’s icing AB 1208. But don’t write an obituary for the provocative legislation just yet.

To be sure, the measure to shift significant funding control from the Judicial Council to the trial courts faces tough odds in the upper House. But if supporters of the Trial Court Rights Act can combine some creative amendments with a pinch of political positioning and a whole bunch of union help they may just find a recipe for the needed 21 votes in the Senate.

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