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Manuel A. Ramirez is a Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeal, Fourth District, Division Two. He was appointed by Governor George Deukmejian and has been married for 41 years with four children and two grandchildren. He has been a judge for many different courts, a Deputy District Attorney, and has been involved in many professional activities and community service programs. He has also been honored with many awards and recognitions.

Macklin Fleming was a justice on the Court of Appeal, Division Eight of the Second Appellate District. He grew up in Cleveland and attended Yale University and Yale Law School. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1934 and then became an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York. He worked in corporate law and also did some pro bono work for the Legal Aid Society in New York. He wrote a lot about the profession and practice of law and talked about the collegiality in the firm and dealing with judges in the legal community in New York during the late 1930s.

Fleming G. Macklin was a retired Associate Justice of the Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Two. He was appointed by Governor Brown, Sr. in 1964, and subsequently confirmed by the electorate. He had previously been a Judge of the Superior Court in Los Angeles County, and had also worked as a Special Counsel to the California State Director of Finance, a Trial Attorney, and an Of Counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II, and was a member of many organizations, including the California Judges Association and the American Bar Association. He was also a lecturer on legal subjects and the author of several books.

Justice M.O. Sabraw was appointed to the Court of Appeal by Governor Deukmejian in 1984 and confirmed by the Commission on Judicial Appointments in 1985. He was also a judge in the Superior Court and Municipal Court in Alameda County from 1968-1985. He served in the US Army during World War II and was admitted to the California Bar in 1953. He is a Republican and enjoys raising and riding horses and skiing. He has authored several significant decisions in the Court of Appeal.

Lynn D. Compton was appointed to the California Court of Appeals by Governor Reagan in 1970 and was confirmed by the Commission on Judicial Appointments. He was a former Chief Deputy District Attorney and Detective in the Los Angeles Police Department. He was the first former policeman to be appointed to an appellate court in California. He retired from the bench in 1990 and was known for his significant decision in the Barber v. Superior Court case in 1983. He had a law degree from Loyola Law School and was a football star and captain of the baseball team at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Retired Justice Lynn D. Compton, who goes by the nickname "Buck," was a police officer in Los Angeles after getting out of the Army in 1946. He wanted to play professional baseball, but his wife wouldn't let him. He then decided to become a police officer and was assigned to the vice squad. He later taught classes at the police academy and worked in the Detective Bureau. After his wife left him, he decided to become a lawyer and was accepted to Loyola Law School after taking a special aptitude test designed by the dean.

The Local Rules of the Court of Appeal Fourth Appellate District are rules governing the court’s procedures for writ proceedings, civil settlement conferences, and reporter’s transcripts for felony appeals. For writ proceedings, the court may issue a stay or other order without opposition, but requests for immediate relief other than a stay or other order necessary to preserve the status quo or the court's jurisdiction will not be granted without an unsolicited opposition or request from the court. For civil settlement conferences, the court has designated certain attorneys as settlement conference mediators to preside over the conference, and it is mandatory for all parties and their counsel to attend. Rule 5 governs reporter’s transcripts in felony appeals, deeming counsel to have requested their copy of the transcript in paper form.

This is a set of rules for the Court of Appeal First Appellate District in California. It outlines procedures for oral argument, including the option to waive argument, the information needed to make an election to present oral argument, the amount of time allocated for each side, and the dates for oral argument. It also explains the recording and streaming of oral argument, requests for continuances, and the use of electronic devices in the courtroom.

Local Rule 12 of the Court of Appeal First Appellate District requires all attorneys to use the Court's electronic filing system (EFS) to submit documents. Self-represented litigants may also use the EFS system, but are not required to do so. Documents must be in PDF format and must not exceed 25 MB in size. All documents must also include electronic bookmarks to each topic heading in the text. Personal identifiers such as social security numbers must be redacted or excluded from all documents filed in the Court's public file. Filing deadlines are not altered by the EFS system, and all documents must be received by midnight in order to be considered timely. Self-represented parties with fee waivers are exempt from the fees associated with electronic filing. If the rule causes undue hardship, paper copies may be filed instead. Failure to comply with the rule may result in sanctions.

Retired Associate Justice Gerald Lewis was born in New Jersey in 1933 and graduated from Plainfield High School at the age of 16. He attended Tufts University, where he played football, wrestled, and played lacrosse. He graduated magna cum laude with a major in government in 1954. He then attended Harvard Law School and graduated in 1957. After graduating, he joined the Navy and was stationed in San Diego, where he worked as a JAG officer. He left the Navy in 1961 at the rank of lieutenant. He was invited to accompany a member of the Office of Naval Intelligence to watch a stakeout in the lobby of the U.S. Grant Hotel.

The Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District, is offering a free training course in May 2008 for attorneys and retired judges to become mediators in the Appellate Mediation Program. This program is designed to speed up the case resolution process and reduce costs for litigants and the court. The training is free, but participants must accept up to four mediation referrals. Applications are due by March 15, 2008.

Justice J. Anthony Kline is a former California Court of Appeal Justice who grew up in post-war America in a diverse neighborhood on Long Island. He attended public schools and went on to college at Johns Hopkins, where he majored in philosophy. He then went to Yale Law School and clerked for a progressive judge on the California Supreme Court. After graduating, he moved to New York City and worked at a prestigious law firm, Davis Polk & Wardwell. He eventually returned to California to work in the Legal Services Program, where he worked on class action lawsuits involving substandard housing and stopping urban renewal projects and federal aid highways that were displacing people from affordable housing.