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Friday’s ruling by Superior Court Judge Jon Skiles was a win for a pair of Fresno City Council members, Garry Bredefeld and Luis Chavez, who are both running for the Fresno County Board of ...
All court locations are in the county seat of Fresno. Criminal cases are held at the downtown courthouse location, while the B. F. Sisk location handles civil and family law cases, and the M Street courthouse handles traffic cases. There is a separate juvenile court location, located southeast of the main downtown county court campus. [13]
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 five-member elected Fresno County Board of Supervisors (BOS) is the county legislature. The board operates in a legislative, executive, and quasi-judicial capacity. As a legislative authority, it can pass ordinances for the unincorporated areas (ordinances that affect the whole county, like posting of restaurant ratings, must be ratified by the individual city).
Fresno County sued California over a law that removes a term widely considered derogatory against Indigenous women from geographic features and place names.
“A street sign can be put back as easily as it can be taken down,” the judge wrote.
As a compromise, the court was created as a "circuit-riding" court that would sit each year in all three of those cities: Fresno (January-April), San Diego (May-August), and San Bernardino (September-December). In 1961, the Fifth District, with headquarters in Fresno, was created to hear appeals from San Joaquin Valley counties.
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