(From the AP) The judge in charge of California’s largest trial court system warned Friday that hundreds of court jobs could be lost and legal business brought to a crawl by deep state budget cuts.

Cash-starved Sacramento slashed $393 million from state trial courts this year and state officials ordered California courts to close one day each month to save money as the state contended with a budget crisis that could linger for years.

Without more funding, Los Angeles Superior Court Presiding Judge Charles McCoy said nine of 50 courthouses in the county of 10 million people could be closed, with hundreds of employees cut from the payroll.

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