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San Mateo County was created by exclusion from the City and County of San Francisco when it was incorporated in 1856; [4]: 1 San Mateo County was re-established by an act passed on April 18, 1857, which also made Redwood City the county seat and included provisions for the first County Court, with sessions to be held in March, June, and November of each year. [5]
Five Superior Courts—in Orange, Sacramento, San Diego, San Joaquin, and Ventura Counties—use CCMS version 3 to process civil cases. This represents approximately 25 percent of the civil case volume in California. [3] Fresno is the only Superior Court still using version 2 of CCMS.
Another quirk is that because the superior courts are now fully unified with all courts of inferior jurisdiction, the superior courts must hear relatively minor cases that previously would have been heard in such inferior courts, such as infractions, misdemeanors, "limited civil" actions (actions where the amount in controversy is below $35,000), and "small claims" actions.
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 ...
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Elizabeth Lee (1983): [262] First Asian-Pacific American female judge in San Mateo County, California (2005) Amarra A. Lee (2006): [263] First African American female to serve on the San Mateo County Superior Court, California (2018) Renee Reyna: [264] First Filipino American (female) judge in San Mateo County, California (2019)
In that instance, all superior courts are free to pick and choose which precedent they wish to follow until the state supreme court settles the issue for the entire state, although a superior court confronted with such a conflict will normally follow the view of its own Court of Appeal (if it has already taken a side on the issue). [5]
San Mateo County (/ ˌ s æ n m ə ˈ t eɪ. oʊ / ⓘ SAN mə-TAY-oh), officially the County of San Mateo, is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 764,442. [8] Redwood City is the county seat, [9] the third-most populated city in the county after Daly City and San Mateo.