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The Sonoma County Hall of Justice was built between 1963 and 1965 to a design by J. Clarence Felciano & Associates. [10] For much of its history, the judiciary of Sonoma County was divided into two primary court systems- the Municipal Court and the Superior Court. The two courts would merge and be reorganized as a single Superior Court in 1996.
Michael M. v. Superior Court of Sonoma County, 450 U.S. 464 (1981), was a United States Supreme Court case over the issue of gender bias in statutory rape laws. The petitioner argued that the statutory rape law discriminated based on gender and was unconstitutional.
The paradox of state judicial officers working in county-operated organizations culminated in a 1996 case in which the Supreme Court of California upheld the constitutionality of a statute under which the superior court of Mendocino County was bound by the county board of supervisors' designation of unpaid furlough days for all county employees ...
Patricia L. Kelly: [472] First female to serve as the Presiding Judge of the Superior Court of Santa Barbara County, California (2017-2018) Elizabeth Diaz: [ 473 ] [ 474 ] First Hispanic American (female) to serve as the President of the Santa Barbara County Bar Association (2020).
In June, 1998, California passed Proposition 220, which allowed the judges in each county to determine if the county should have only one trial court. By 2001, all 58 counties had consolidated their courts into a single superior court. The California courts of appeal were added to the judicial branch by a constitutional amendment in 1904.
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Sonoma County (/ s ə ˈ n oʊ m ə / ⓘ) is a county located in the U.S. state of California.As of the 2020 United States Census, its population was 488,863. [5] Its seat of government and largest city is Santa Rosa.
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