Courthouses keep watch, but stay open, amid coronavirus crisis

Local courts are watching developments in the novel coronavirus contagion but remain open for business, with no changes announced for courthouse hours or operations in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties on Thursday, March 12.
Courthouses can be hosts to large groups of people — in jury assembly rooms and also in some courtrooms, particularly ones with arraignment calendars where large numbers of in-custody defendants, attorneys, law enforcement officers and the publ