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County judges in Florida preside over misdemeanor cases, traffic offenses and civil disputes of $50,000 or less. They are elected to six-year terms. Booras, a judge since 2006, announced in March ...
Leifert began working as a criminal defense attorney in Palm Beach County in 1995 after spending five years as a prosecutor with the State Attorney's Office. Nine county judges will return to the ...
County Court Judge Group 2 seat. Lourdes Casanova, Douglas Leifert, Jean Marie Middleton (winner replaces Ted Booras, who is retiring) State House District 89. DEMS: Destinie Baker Sutton, Debra ...
The judicial system of California is the largest in the United States that is fully staffed by professional law-trained judges. [3] In fiscal year 2020-21, the state judiciary's 2,000 judicial officers and 18,000 judicial branch employees processed approximately 4.4 million cases. [ 4 ]
To be chief, a judge must have been in active service on the court for at least one year, be under the age of 65, and have not previously served as chief judge. A vacancy is filled by the judge highest in seniority among the group of qualified judges. The chief judge serves for a term of seven years, or until age 70, whichever occurs first.
Phyllis J. Hamilton (1976): [104] [105] First African American female judge to serve as the Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (2014) Jinsook Ohta : [ 106 ] First Asian American female (who is of Korean descent) to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (2021)
From 2002 to 2011, Court worked as an attorney and later vice president and general counsel at Bet Tzedek Legal Services. [3] On December 27, 2011, Court was appointed by California Governor Jerry Brown to serve as a judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court to fill the vacancy left by the retirement of Judge Conrad R. Aragon. [4]
Perez v. Sharp, [1] also known as Perez v. Lippold or Perez v.Moroney, is a 1948 case decided by the Supreme Court of California in which the court held by a 4–3 majority that the state's ban on interracial marriage violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.