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  2. California superior courts - Wikipedia

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    This is why several U.S. Supreme Court decisions in cases that originated in California bear names like Asahi Metal Industry Co. v. Superior Court (1987) and Burnham v. Superior Court of California (1990). The underlying justification is that the writ jurisdiction of the California Courts of Appeal is to make an order directing the Superior ...

  3. Los Angeles County Superior Court - Wikipedia

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    The Superior Court of Los Angeles County is the California Superior Court located in Los Angeles County. It is the largest single unified trial court in the United States. The Superior Court operates 36 courthouses throughout the county. Currently, the Presiding Judge is Sergio C. Tapia II and David W. Slayton is the Executive Officer/Clerk of ...

  4. Courts of California - Wikipedia

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    Federal courts located in California United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (headquartered in San Francisco , having jurisdiction over the United States District Courts of Alaska, Arizona, California, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, the Northern Mariana Islands, Oregon, and Washington)

  5. United States District Court for the Central District of ...

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    The United States District Court for the Central District of California (in case citations, C.D. Cal.; commonly referred to as the CDCA or CACD) is a federal trial court that serves over 19 million people in Southern and Central California, making it the most populous federal judicial district. [1] The district was created on September 18, 1966.

  6. Judiciary of California - Wikipedia

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    The Court has original jurisdiction in a variety of cases, including habeas corpus proceedings, and has the authority to review all the decisions of the California courts of appeal, as well as an automatic appeal for cases where the death penalty has been issued by the trial court.

  7. Sacramento County Superior Court - Wikipedia

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    The Gordon D. Schaber downtown courthouse is the main courthouse of the court. As well as providing the main trial courtrooms, the courthouse contains the administrative offices of the court (including the Presiding Judge), and the general civil and criminal case processing support services of the court system.

  8. Should magistrates oversee contested divorce cases? Why ... - AOL

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    PROVIDENCE – Family Court Chief Judge Michael B. Forte wants magistrates to perform the same duties as judges and preside over and decide contested divorce cases, some of the most emotionally ...

  9. Family court - Wikipedia

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    The original criminal nature of family courts was slowly replaced by an impliedly civil approach, starting in the 1930s with a New York law designed to treat nonsupport cases as a civil matter. [2] The shift to civil nonsupport across the country and the addition of divorce jurisdiction led to family court dockets becoming more civil in nature. [2]