EDITORIAL : BUILDING JUSTICE; COUNTY FINALLY FINDS THE MONEY TO CONSTRUCT A COURTHOUSE.AFTER nearly a decade, justice will be served in Chatsworth. Late last month, the nonprofit Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Courthouse Corp., which is charged with constructing courthouses, approved a $62.8 million, fixed-price contract with Alexander Haagen Co. Inc. to build the 10-room West San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. Branch Courthouse. The building will help relieve the backlog of Municipal Court cases at the Van Nuys Courthouse and give some residents a break from traveling far to make court appearances. Now the agency ought to focus its attention on building a new courthouse in the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley , where the current edifice is too small to handle the caseload case·load n. The number of cases handled in a given period, as by an attorney or by a clinic or social services agency. caseload Noun and judges are working in makeshift courtrooms. Don't let the Antelope Valley wait 10 years. |
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