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The Southern District of California was abolished and the State made to constitute a single district – the United States District Court for the District of California – by Act of Congress approved July 27, 1866, 14 Stat. 300. [2] [3] Twenty years later, on August 5, 1886, Congress re-created the Southern District of California by 24 Stat ...
The Northern District of California encompasses 15 Northern California counties from Del Norte in the north to Monterey in the south. The District contains three major metropolitan areas in San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose; an expanse of suburban and rural area; and more than 300 public companies centered on Silicon Valley.
Orrick was born in San Francisco on May 15, 1953. [2] [3] His father, William H. Orrick Jr. (1915–2003), was a United States District Judge for the Northern District of California and served as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division in the John F. Kennedy administration.
Courts of California include: Headquarters of the Supreme Court of California, in San Francisco. State courts of record of California. Supreme Court of California [1] California Courts of Appeal (6 appellate districts) [2] Superior Courts of California (58 courts, one for each county) [3] State quasi-administrative courts of California
The Northern District of California’s new procedural guidance for class action settlements, announced on Nov. 1, is among the most detailed in the nation.
Boynton served as a law clerk for Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and Judge Vaughn Walker of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. [3]
The Southern District of California was abolished on July 27, 1866, and the State made to constitute one district, the statute providing that the Judge of the Northern District exercise the powers of the United States District Court for the District of California, and that all records of the Southern District Court be delivered to the Clerk of ...
In September 1985, Chen became a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, specializing in language discrimination cases. [4] He held that post until April 2001, when the judges on the United States District Court for the Northern District of California named Chen to an eight-year term as a United States magistrate judge. [2]