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The Southern District of California was abolished and the State made to constitute a single district – the United States District Court for the District of California – by Act of Congress approved July 27, 1866, 14 Stat. 300. [2] [3] Twenty years later, on August 5, 1886, Congress re-created the Southern District of California by 24 Stat ...
The Northern District of California encompasses 15 Northern California counties from Del Norte in the north to Monterey in the south. The District contains three major metropolitan areas in San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose; an expanse of suburban and rural area; and more than 300 public companies centered on Silicon Valley.
In September 1985, Chen became a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, specializing in language discrimination cases. [4] He held that post until April 2001, when the judges on the United States District Court for the Northern District of California named Chen to an eight-year term as a United States magistrate judge. [2]
The Northern District of California’s new procedural guidance for class action settlements, announced on Nov. 1, is among the most detailed in the nation.
Boynton served as a law clerk for Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and Judge Vaughn Walker of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. [3]
Rita Faye Lin (born 1978) [3] is an American lawyer who is serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. She previously served as an associate judge of the San Francisco County Superior Court.
Richard Gus Seeborg [1] (born November 4, 1956) is the chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. He formerly served as a United States magistrate judge in the same district.
The District was created on March 18, 1966, with the division of the Northern and Southern districts, leading to the creation of the Central and Eastern districts. [1] The United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of California represents the United States in civil and criminal litigation in the court.