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By SEAN ADAMS Arundel Newspaper* Richmond Bureau
RICHMOND—The latest obstacle to establishing the Intermediate Court of Appeals is neither its composition nor its jurisdiction.
It is money.
Opponents of the embattled court, scheduled to begin operating in January, are trying to kill it by slicing its funding from the 1984-86 state budget.
They succeeded Sunday in the Senate Finance Committee, which voted, 8-7, to elirtiinate $6.2 million in court funding, earmarking the money for education.
Local legislators say there may be enough votes, particularly in the House of Delegates, to kill the court by keeping the money out of the budget.
“The financing of it could be a very live issue before all of this is over,” says Del. Thomas M. Moncure Jr. (R53rd).
The General Assembly approved the court in the waning hours of last year’s session, but Moncure voted against it.
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