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All court locations are in the county seat of Fresno. Criminal cases are held at the downtown courthouse location, while the B. F. Sisk location handles civil and family law cases, and the M Street courthouse handles traffic cases. There is a separate juvenile court location, located southeast of the main downtown county court campus. [13]
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.
Median spending for a judicial office of the Los Angeles County Superior Court has risen from $3,177 in 1970 to $70,000 in 1994. [45] Fresno County public defenders have protested excessive case loads, carrying about 1,000 felony cases a year giving them an average of only about two hours and five minutes per case. [46]
Friday’s ruling by Superior Court Judge Jon Skiles was a win for a pair of Fresno City Council members, Garry Bredefeld and Luis Chavez, who are both running for the Fresno County Board of ...
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Fresno County Superior Court Judge Jon Skiles ruled in favor of Bredefeld and Chavez in October, finding that the county’s ordinance was unconstitutional in how it was applied. In a ruling last ...
The Fresno County Superior Court, which covers the entire county, is not a County department but a division of the State's trial court system. Historically, the courthouses were county-owned buildings that were maintained at county expense, which created significant friction since the trial court judges, as officials of the state government ...
Fresno County sued California over a law that removes a term widely considered derogatory against Indigenous women from geographic features and place names.