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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]
The Act of August 31, 1852 made the Judge of the Northern District be Judge of the Southern District as well until otherwise provided, by 10 Stat. 76, 84, [2] effectively creating a single District in all but name until an Act of January 18, 1854 provided for the appointment of a Judge for the Southern District. [3]
New District Judge Beth Labson Freeman receives the oath of office from Northern District Chief Judge Claudia Ann Wilken (April 24, 2014). On June 20, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated Freeman to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, to a new seat created on October 3, 2011, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 133(b)(1 ...
A San Mateo County judge on Wednesday ruled that Scott Peterson — who has been on San Quentin’s Death Row since his 2004 conviction for the Christmas Eve murder of his pregnant wife, Laci, and ...
The Commission on Judicial Performance said Judge Lisa A. Novak of the San Mateo County Superior Court should have disclosed a January 2017 conversation with her bailiff because it related to a ...
According to court records, a judge in San Mateo County, California, has scheduled a status hearing in Peterson's case for March 12, which will include a remote appearance from the convicted ...
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.
San Mateo County Judge Elizabeth M. Hill granted only one request for DNA testing, on a piece of duct tape found with Peterson's body, which had been dumped in the San Francisco Bay.