Edward J. Schwartz United States Courthouse | |
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General information | |
Location | 221 W. Broadway San Diego, California United States |
Coordinates | 32°42′54″N117°09′55″W / 32.714944°N 117.165177°W |
Completed | 1975 |
Client | District Court for the Southern District of California |
Owner | General Services Administration |
Technical details | |
Floor area | 895,000 sq ft (83,148 m2) |
The Edward J. Schwartz United States Courthouse is a courthouse building located in San Diego, California. It is a courthouse for the United States District Court for the Southern District of California. The 103rd Congress designated the building under H.R. 3770 in 1994, which became Public Law 103-228. The Courthouse is one of the busiest federal court houses in the nation. [1] The courthouse is 895,000 square feet. [1]
The building is named for District Court Judge Edward Joseph Schwartz.
On May 4, 2008, Rachel Lynn Carlock and her boyfriend Donny Love Sr. placed a backpack containing three pipe bombs at the front door. The bombs went off without injuring anyone and only shattering the doors to the courthouse. [2]
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