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Santa Barbara County was one of the original counties formed in 1850 when California was admitted as a state. The first County Judge was Joaquin Carrillo, and the Second Judicial District was headed by Judge Henry A. Teffts; Judge Teffts drowned while attempting to land at Port Harford, and he was succeeded by Judge Carrillo, who held the position until 1866.
The Superior Court uses the One Day or One Trial Jury Service program under California Rules of Court, Rule 2.1002. This program allows a person to fulfill jury service when they have: Served on ...
The 1874 courthouse served until 1898, when the second courthouse was completed. This second courthouse had a protracted development: an initial proposition to issue bonds for US$125,000 (equivalent to $4,240,000 in 2023) to build a new County Jail and Court House was defeated by voters in 1887, so the board of supervisors reissued the proposition for US$75,000 in bonds to build a new Hall of ...
The courthouse’s first floor features a 10 x 12 foot relief map of Santa Barbara County. Created as a Works Progress Administration project in 1934, it depicts the Los Padres National Forest lands within six counties, and was based on US Forest Service and US Geological Survey maps of the area and was intended to be used in support of ...
Rule 2.1008 in the 2024 California Rules of Court says prospective jurors with physical or mental disabilities that don’t affect their competence but could cause them harm can be excused from ...
Another quirk is that because the superior courts are now fully unified with all courts of inferior jurisdiction, the superior courts must hear relatively minor cases that previously would have been heard in such inferior courts, such as infractions, misdemeanors, "limited civil" actions (actions where the amount in controversy is below $35,000), and "small claims" actions.
After an L.A. County judge declared SB 9 unconstitutional, Sam Andreano, who took advantage of the program by splitting his Whittier property in half, is wondering why.
The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California is divided into three divisions, with jurisdiction over seven counties: Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange, Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura. The Eastern Division covers Riverside and San Bernardino Counties at the Riverside courthouse.