| United States District Court for the Eastern District of California (E.D. Cal.) |
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| Appeals to | Ninth Circuit |
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| Established | March 18, 1966 |
| Judges assigned | 6 |
| Chief judge | Anthony W. Ishii |
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The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California (in case citations, E.D. Cal.) is composed of six divisions.
The Bakersfield division has jurisdiction over certain cases in Inyo and Kern counties and on federal lands and National Parks. These cases are heard in courthouses in Bakersfield, Edwards Air Force Base, and Independence.
The Fresno division covers Calaveras, Fresno, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, Stanislaus, Tulare, and Tuolumne counties.
The Redding/Susanville office hears misdemeanors and petty crimes for federal lands and National Parks in four locations: Alturas, Chester, Herlong, and Redding.
The Sacramento division covers: Alpine, Amador, Butte, Colusa, El Dorado, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Mono, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Solano, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity, Yolo, and Yuba counties.
The South Lake Tahoe office hears misdemeanors and petty crimes for federal lands and National Parks.
The Yosemite office hears misdemeanors and petty crimes for Yosemite National Park.
Cases from the Eastern District of California are appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit).
The current Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California is Lawrence G. Brown, who was appointed by the Bush administration Department of Justice and sworn in on January 5, 2009 following the resignation of U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott.[1] As First Assistant U.S. Attorney, Brown had served since March 2003 as second-in-command of the office under U.S. Attorney McGregor Scott, a President George W. Bush appointee.[1]
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History
California was admitted as a state on September 9, 1850, and was initially divided into two districts, the Northern and the Southern, by Act of Congress approved September 28, 1850, 9 Stat. 521.[2] The boundary line was at the 37th parallel of North Latitude.[3] The Southern District of California was abolished and the State made to constitute a single district - the United States District Court for the District of California - by Act of Congress approved July 27, 1866, 14 Stat. 300.[2][3] Twenty years later, on August 5, 1886, Congress re-created the Southern District of California by 24 Stat. 308,[3] but it was not until March 18, 1966, that the Eastern and Central Districts were created from portions of the Northern and Southern Districts by 80 Stat. 75.[2]
Current Judges
- As of January 1, 2009, a vacancy has existed in the Eastern District of California due Judge Frank C. Damrell Jr.'s decision to assume senior status. No replacement nomination is pending at this time.
| Judge | Appointed by | Began active service |
Ended active service |
Ended senior status |
End reason |
| Garland Ellis Burrell Jr. | George H. W. Bush | March 2, 1992 | Incumbent | – | – |
| Anthony W. Ishii | Bill Clinton | October 14, 1997 | Incumbent | – | – |
| Morrison C. England Jr. | George W. Bush | August 2, 2002 | Incumbent | – | – |
| John A. Mendez | George W. Bush | April 17, 2008 | Incumbent | – | – |
| Lawrence Joseph O'Neill | George W. Bush | February 2, 2007 | Incumbent | – | – |
| (Seat Vacant) | (n/a) | (n/a) | (n/a) | (n/a) | (n/a) |
| Myron Donovan Crocker | Dwight D. Eisenhower | September 21, 1959 | January 1, 1981 | Incumbent | – |
| Lawrence K. Karlton | Jimmy Carter | July 24, 1979 | May 28, 2000 | Incumbent | – |
| Robert Everett Coyle | Ronald Reagan | April 1, 1982 | May 13, 1996 | Incumbent | – |
| Edward J. Garcia | Ronald Reagan | March 14, 1984 | November 24, 1996 | Incumbent | – |
| William B. Shubb | George H. W. Bush | October 1, 1990 | November 1, 2004 | Incumbent | – |
| Oliver Winston Wanger | George H. W. Bush | March 25, 1991 | May 31, 2006 | Incumbent | – |
| Frank C. Damrell Jr. | Bill Clinton | November 12, 1997 | December 31, 2008 | Incumbent | – |
Former Judges
| Judge | Appointed by | Began active service |
Ended active service |
Ended senior status |
End reason |
| Sherrill Halbert | Dwight D. Eisenhower | August 26, 1954 | September 30, 1969 | May 31, 1991 | death |
| David F. Levi | George H. W. Bush | October 1, 1990 | June 30, 2007 | – | resignation |
| Thomas Jamison MacBride | John F. Kennedy | September 22, 1961 | March 25, 1979 | January 6, 2000 | death |
| Edward Dean Price | Jimmy Carter | December 20, 1979 | December 31, 1989 | November 3, 1997 | death |
| Raul Anthony Ramirez | Jimmy Carter | May 23, 1980 | December 31, 1989 | – | resignation |
| Milton Lewis Schwartz | Jimmy Carter | November 27, 1979 | January 20, 1990 | October 3, 2005 | death |
| Philip Charles Wilkins | Richard Nixon | December 18, 1969 | January 27, 1983 | July 8, 1998 | death |
Notes
- ^ a b U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of California (January 5, 2009). "Acting United States Attorney Lawrence G. Brown". U.S. Department of Justice. http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/cae/us_attorney/index.html.
U.S. Department of Justice (January 5, 2009). "Lawrence Brown sworn in as Acting United States Attorney for Eastern District of California". U.S. Department of Justice. http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/cae/press_releases/docs/2009/01-05-09BrownActngUSApressrelease.pdf.
U.S. Senate (March 31, 2003). "Presidential Nomination PN381-108 McGregor William Scott". THOMAS. http://thomas.loc.gov/home/nomis.html. - ^ a b c U.S. District Courts of California, Legislative history, Federal Judicial Center.
- ^ a b c Willoughby Rodman, History of the Bench and Bar of Southern California (1909), p. 46.
External links
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of California Official Web Site
- Local Rules of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California
- Justice of the Pines: Yosemite National Park Has Its Own Rustic Courthouse and Homespun Judge[1]
See also
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