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United States Army. Years of service. 1965-1967. Rank. Captain. William Johnson Elfving (born March 17, 1941) is an American lawyer and former judge of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara. [ 3 ][ 4 ] He was appointed to the bench on November 13, 1997, and retired in 2017. [ 5 ] Prior to his appointment he was in private ...
The Superior Court of California for and in the County of Santa Clara is the state trial court in and for Santa Clara County, California.. The Santa Clara Superior Court serves the public by providing equal justice for all in a fair, accessible, effective, efficient, and courteous manner; resolving disputes under the law; applying the law consistently, impartially, and independently ...
In January 2014, the Santa Clara County Superior Court ruled that NL Industries, along with Sherwin-Williams and ConAgra were jointly and severally liable for $1.15 billion, to be paid into a lead paint abatement fund to be used to remove lead paint from older housing.
As of 2007, the superior courts of California consisted of over 1,500 judges, and make up the largest part of California's judicial system, which is in turn one of the largest court systems in the United States. Superior court judges are elected by each county's voters to six-year terms. California attorneys are allowed to run against sitting ...
California Public Records Act. County of Santa Clara v. California First Amendment Coalition, 170 Cal. App. 4th 1301 (2009), was a case before the California Courts of Appeal dealing with the ability of a local California agency to limit the disclosure of, or require license agreements for, public records and data requested under the California ...
The Santa Clara Superior Court granted the preliminary injunction to stop distribution of the DeCSS program and the keys or algorithms of CSS, but did not prohibit the defendants from linking to other websites containing relevant information or using DeCSS explicitly. The court found that CSS was a trade secret that has been well guarded for ...
University of California, Berkeley (JD) Michael Aaron Persky (born 1962) [1][2][3][4] is an American attorney and former judge of the Santa Clara County Superior Court from 2003 to 2018. [5] In 2016, Persky gained attention after his ruling in the case People v. Turner, in which he sentenced Stanford University student Brock Turner to six ...
Then State Court Judge Randy Rich implemented Gwinnett County's Business Court as a pilot program over 15 years ago, [264] and remained a Business Court judge in Gwinnett until that program became part of the Metro Atlanta Business Case Division, [265] where, by then Superior Court Judge Rich continued to serve as a business court judge until 2020.