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San Francisco federal court could see trials backed up for years due to Covid, judge warns

By Michael Acton
  • 11 Jan 2022 15:44
  • 11 Jan 2022 15:44
The US District Court for the Northern District of California could see trials backed up “for years to come” as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, a judge at the court warned today.
US District Judge Edward Chen said that judges are more averse to bifurcating trials in cases with

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Michael Acton

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Michael is a senior correspondent for MLex in San Francisco, where he moved in 2020 after working in our Brussels bureau. Before joining MLex, he reported on EU politics as the Financial Times’ Nico Colchester Fellow in Brussels. Michael has a degree in International Relations and Politics from the University of Cambridge, and a degree in History and French from University College London and Paris IV Sorbonne.

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