A courthouse or court house is a building that is home to a local court of law and often the regional county government as well,although this is not the case in some larger cities. The term is common in North America. In most other English-speaking countries,buildings which house courts of law are simply called "courts" or "court buildings". In most of continental Europe and former non-English-speaking European colonies,the equivalent term is a palace of justice.
The government of California is the governmental structure of the U.S. state of California as established by the California Constitution. California uses the separation of powers system to structure its government. It is composed of three branches:the executive,consisting of the governor of California and the other constitutionally elected and appointed officers and offices;the legislative,consisting of the California State Legislature,which includes the Assembly and the Senate;and the judicial,consisting of the Supreme Court of California and lower courts. There is also local government,consisting of counties,cities,special districts,and school districts,as well as government entities and offices that operate independently on a constitutional,statutory,or common law basis. The state also allows direct participation of the electorate by initiative,referendum,recall and ratification.
The Supreme Court of California is the highest and final court of appeals in the courts of the U.S. state of California. It is headquartered in San Francisco at the Earl Warren Building,but it regularly holds sessions in Los Angeles and Sacramento. Its decisions are binding on all other California state courts. Since 1850,the court has issued many influential decisions in a variety of areas including torts,property,civil and constitutional rights,and criminal law.
John Downey Works was an American politician and lawyer. He was a U.S. Senator representing California from 1911 to 1917,and an associate justice of the California Supreme Court from October 2,1888,to January 5,1891.
Whittier Law School was a law school in Costa Mesa,California founded in 1966. The law school was part of Whittier College,a private institution. After several years being ranked among the poorest-performing law schools in the United States based on bar passage rate and job placement,Whittier Law School announced in April 2017 that it would no longer be admitting students and would discontinue its legal program,becoming the first law school with full accreditation by the American Bar Association (ABA) to shut down in at least 30 years.Since the school's closure,transcript requests are now handled by Whittier College.
Stephen Lawrence Cooley is an American politician and prosecutor. He was the Los Angeles County District Attorney from 2000 to 2012. Cooley was re-elected in 2004 and again in 2008.
Ming William Chin is an American attorney and former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California,serving from March 1,1996 to August 31,2020.
Kathryn Jocelyn Mickle Werdegar is a former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California,serving from June 3,1994,to August 31,2017.
David Welford Williams was an American attorney and United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California,the first African-American federal judge west of the Mississippi. He is best known for his work in the abolition of restrictive covenants and for overseeing 4,000 criminal cases that stemmed from the 1965 Watts riots.
The Superior Court of Los Angeles County is the California Superior Court located in Los Angeles County. It is the largest single unified trial court in the United States.
Frank Kellogg Richardson was an American attorney and Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court.
William Jefferson "Will" Hunsaker (1855–1933) was an American lawyer and politician from San Diego and later Los Angeles,California. Hunsaker was the San Diego County District Attorney from 1882 to 1884,4th Mayor of San Diego from 1887 to 1888 and president of the California Bar Association from 1913 to 1914.
The Judiciary of California or the Judicial Branch of California is defined under the California Constitution as holding the judicial power of the state of California which is vested in the Supreme Court,the Courts of Appeal and the Superior Courts. The judiciary has a hierarchical structure with the California Supreme Court at the top,California Courts of Appeal as the primary appellate courts,and the California Superior Courts as the primary trial courts.
John Wesley Shenk was a city attorney in Los Angeles,California,a Superior Court judge and a member of the California Supreme Court.
Leondra Reid Kruger is an American judge who is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California. A native of South Pasadena,California,she graduated from Harvard College and Yale Law School. Kruger then clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens,and subsequently worked in private practice and as a professor. She served as acting Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States from 2010 to 2011,and worked in the Office of Legal Counsel. In 2014,California Governor Jerry Brown nominated Kruger to a seat on the Supreme Court of California. She was confirmed,and was sworn in on January 5,2015.
Benjamin Rey Schauer was an American attorney and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California from December 18,1942,to September 15,1965.
Jesse William Curtis Sr. was an American attorney who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California from January 1,1926 to January 1,1945,and whose family were pioneer settlers of San Bernardino,California.
Louis Harry Burke was an American lawyer who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California from November 20,1964,to November 30,1974.
Daniel K. Tabor, is an American politician who served as mayor of Inglewood,California,the third African-American to hold the position.
