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A commissioner is a subordinate judicial officer elected by the judges of the Court and given the power to hear and make decisions in certain kinds of legal matters, similar to the United States magistrate judge. Their jurisdiction includes, but is not limited to, traffic matters, family law and juvenile cases, criminal misdemeanors, and ...
To be eligible to become a superior court judge in California, one must have been a member of the State Bar of California for at least ten years. [3] One quirk of California law is that when a party petitions the appellate courts for a writ of mandate (California's version of mandamus), the case name becomes [petitioner name] v.
In 2013, Guerrero became a judge on the San Diego County Superior Court and served as the supervising judge for its family law division in 2017. Later in 2017, she became an appellate justice on the Court of Appeal for the Fourth District, Division One, the state intermediate appellate court with jurisdiction over appeals from San Diego and Imperial counties.
Nearly 120,000 family law cases; Over 150,000 civil lawsuits; Pursuant to California Government Code and the California Rules of Court, the Los Angeles County Superior Court has adopted Local Rules for its government and the government of its officers. [7] [8] The Presiding Judge assigns cases to departments and judges to departments.
Family members embrace as they attend a news conference to announce a decision in the case of the Menendez brothers, who have spent 34 years in prison for the shotgun murder of their parents, in ...
The California Commission on Judicial Performance is responsible for investigating complaints of judicial misconduct, judicial incapacity, and disciplining state judges, and is composed of 11 members, each appointed four-year terms: 3 judges appointed by the California Supreme Court, 4 members appointed by the governor (2 attorneys and 2 non ...
David Surmier Cunningham III is a California attorney. He serves as Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge in multiple assignments in family law, probate and in complex civil assignments presiding over products liability cases, labor related class actions and mass torts.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court of California, San Francisco County, 582 U.S. ___ (2017), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that California courts lacked personal jurisdiction over the defendant on claims brought by plaintiffs who are not California residents and did not suffer their alleged injury in California. [1]