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Apr 13, 2022 · Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Daniel J. Buckley, who led his court as its presiding judge in 2017 and 2018, will hang up his robe after Friday’s session of Department One in the Spring Street Courthouse, ending a judicial career that spanned two decades.
Sep 22, 2020 · After months of keeping the largest court system in the nation running during a pandemic by launching an online portal for attorneys and participants, Los Angeles County Superior Court Presiding Judge Kevin Brazile will turn those duties over to Assistant Presiding Judge Eric Taylor in January.
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Superior Court judges oversee trials across all of L.A. County. There are more than 400 of them across the court system. These trials cover everything having to do with state and local laws, including family law (such as child custody and divorces), contract disputes, thefts, felony murder, probate (distributing a person’s possessions after they di...
Your traffic ticket dispute. Or your child custody case. Or that time you served on a jury. If you’ve never had to interact with the court system before, you’ve definitely heard of a case the L.A. Superior Court has handled: think Britney Spears’ conservatorship, the trial of Soon Ja Du for the killing of Latasha Harlins, or the O.J. Simpson trial.
Evaluating judicial candidates is notoriously hard. There can be dozens of them in a given election, and since many candidates are wary of politicizing judgeships, they don’t spend a lot of money on campaign advertising, which makes it hard to find out who they are or what they stand for. Plus, these are nonpartisan seats, so you don’t have the opt...
In short, because we have for a long timeand because proposals to stop electing judges haven’t succeeded. If you’re not totally comfortable with the idea of electing judges, you’re not alone. Lots of people have questioned whether it’s a good idea to elect our judiciary — does it cause judges to worry more about being popular instead of making the ...
With all the above in mind, here is our judges guide. It includes all 12 candidates vying for six seats. The two candidates for each seat were the top candidates in the June 7 primary election. Each profile has the candidate's job, campaign website, a link to their full list of endorsements, and the L.A. County Bar Association ratings (read about L...
Abby Baron, Deputy District Attorney More resources: 1. Read more about Abby Baron's priorities and experience on Voter's Edge Anna Slotky Reitano, Deputy Public Defender More resources: 1. Read more about Anna Slotky Reitano's priorities and experience on Voters Edge
Fernanda Maria Barreto, Deputy District Attorney More resources: 1. Read more about Fernanda Maria Barreto's priorities and experience on Voter's Edge Elizabeth Lashley-Haynes, Deputy Public Defender More resources: 1. Read more about Elizabeth Lashley-Haynes' priorities and experience on Voter's Edge
Renee Yolande Chang, Deputy District Attorney More resources: 1. Read more about Renee Yolanda Chang's priorities and experience on Voter's Edge Holly L. Hancock, Deputy Public Defender More resources: 1. Read more about Holly L. Hancock's priorities and experience on Voter's Edge
Leslie Gutierrez, Deputy District Attorney More resources: 1. Read more about Leslie Gutierrez's priorities and experience on Voter's Edge Melissa Lyons, Deputy District Attorney More resources: 1. Read more about Melissa Lyons' priorities and experience on Voter's Edge
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A Presiding Judge of one of the California Superior Courts: Presiding judges provide leadership and direction for many aspects of their court. They are chosen by their peers. They assign judges to cases. Each of the 58 California Superior Courts that has two or more judges must have a Presiding Judge.
Dec 7, 2020 · Los Angeles Superior Court Judges David J. Cowan, Sergio C. Tapia II, Lawrence P. Riff, and Brenda J. Penny will be supervising judges of court divisions, and Judge Victor H. Greenberg will be presiding judge of the Juvenile Court, effective Jan. 4, under an order signed by Assistant Presiding Judge Eric C. Taylor, the incoming presiding judge.
Faculty Profiles. Carolyn B. Kuhl. A.B. Princeton University. J.D. Duke Law School. Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl teaches Civil Procedure in Practice at UCLA School of Law. Judge Kuhl was appointed to serve as a Judge of the Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles in 1995.
