News Release - March 1, 2022
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Data show steady increase over the last 16 years in the number of women, and justices and judges of color
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News Release - September 20, 2021
Remote proceedings have improved case clearance rates and cleared previous case backlogs in some areas
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Feature - July 12, 2021
Governor Gavin Newsom signed a budget that includes $1.2 billion in new funding for the judicial branch, including restoring $200 million in previous cuts and making major investments in judicial branch programs improving access to justice.
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News Release - May 14, 2021
California Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye today issued this statement on the Governor's May budget revise:
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Feature - April 6, 2021
Court self-help centers aim to help Californians without legal representation navigate the court system.
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News Release - March 26, 2021
"We can no longer abide the invisibility of Asian Americans in our nation’s discourse on racism and discrimination," Justice Goodwin Liu writes in the Los Angeles Times.
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News Release - December 7, 2020
Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye on Monday issued an advisory to leaders of California’s 58 county superior courts with guidance to continue to seek emergency orders if needed based on local conditions and ability to hold remote hearings or provide social distancing under state and local health rules.
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Fifty-two of California's 58 counties have resumed jury trials. Source: Court Service and Operations
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The California court system consists of the local superior courts in each of California’s 58 counties, the 6 districts of the Courts of Appeal, and the Supreme Court. Following is a summary of how judges and justices get to their positions on these courts.
SUPERIOR COURT JUDGES
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Budgeting within the judicial branch is complex, collaborative, and time-consuming and the courts are integral to the process.
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Languages and dialects spoken in California—more than 200
Percentage of Californians that speak a non-English language at home: 44%
Percentage of Californians with English-language limitations: approximately 17.4% (approximately 7 million)
Languages certified for court interpreters: American Sign Language and 15 spoken languages—Arabic, Armenian (Eastern), Armenian (Western), Cantonese, Farsi (Persian of Iran), Japanese, Khmer (Cambodian), Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese
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Fiscal Year 2022-2023:
Unified court system serving more than 39 million people
1,755 judges (authorized positions)
Approximately 450 court facilities
Filings: 4,519,099
Dispositions: 2,530,438
More data points in the Court Statistics Report
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