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Though California law does not require employers to pay employees during jury service, some employers have jury-leave policies that provide workers with pay for the time they are at court ...
According to California Courts, jurors selected for a trial will be paid $15 per day and at least 34 cents for each mile they travel to and from court starting the second day of their service ...
A citizen's right to a trial by jury is a central feature of the United States Constitution. [1] It is considered a fundamental principle of the American legal system. Laws and regulations governing jury selection and conviction/acquittal requirements vary from state to state (and are not available in courts of American Samoa), but the fundamental right itself is mentioned five times in the ...
Under the Fair Work Act 2009, full-time and part-time employees are entitled to ‘make-up pay’ for the first ten days of jury service. This ensures employees receive their usual base pay, with employers compensating the difference between the jury duty payment and the employee’s standard earnings.
The chief judge serves for a term of seven years, or until age 70, whichever occurs first. The age restrictions are waived if no members of the court would otherwise be qualified for the position. When the office was created in 1948, the chief judge was the longest-serving judge who had not elected to retire, on what has since 1958 been known ...
Rule 2.1008 in the 2024 California Rules of Court says prospective jurors with physical or mental disabilities that don’t affect their competence but could cause them harm can be excused from ...
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.