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Santa Cruz County was one of the original counties formed when California was made a state in 1850. Court was first held in the Eagle Hotel, the largest building of the Mission Santa Cruz campus, just south of School Street. [2] The second courthouse was a building on the east side of present-day Emmett Street nearby.
The superior courts are the lowest level of state courts in California holding general jurisdiction on civil and criminal matters. Above them are the six California courts of appeal, each with appellate jurisdiction over the superior courts within their districts, and the Supreme Court of California.
The United States District Court for the Northern District of California (in case citations, N.D. Cal.) is the federal United States district court whose jurisdiction comprises the following counties of California: Alameda, Contra Costa, Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, Marin, Mendocino, Monterey, Napa, San Benito, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa ...
Prosecutors have petitioned the court to prevent the release of Adrian Jerry Gonzalez, who pleaded guilty to all charges in the death of Madyson 'Maddy' Middleton. In 2015, a rape and murder of an ...
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).
The California Court of Appeal for the Sixth District is located in the Comerica Bank building in San Jose. Its jurisdiction covers Monterey, San Benito, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz Counties. [1] It has seven justices. Justices: Mary J. Greenwood, Administrative Presiding Justice; Patricia Bamattre-Manoukian, Associate Justice
Mar. 23—The family of a Portales woman killed in a 2023 motor vehicle crash has been awarded $77 million in a default judgment by a Santa Fe County court. Court records show Lisa Ayn Poitras ...
In California, the power of the intermediate courts of appeal over the superior courts is quite different from the power of the courts of appeals of the federal government over the federal district courts. The first Court of Appeal to rule on a new legal issue will bind all lower superior courts statewide. However, litigants in other appellate ...