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Justice Candace Cooper was born in Los Angeles in 1948 and was the second of four children. Her father was a member of the Los Angeles Police Department and was one of the first African-American officers. Her mother was primarily a housewife, but worked from time to time. Justice Cooper traveled a lot in her youth, visiting Germany, the national parks, and many states. Her father passed away in 1985, after she had been a judge for two years. Her family is very accomplished, with her older brother being a medical doctor, her younger brother a swim instructor, and her younger sister raising two adopted children.
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In California, there are six appellate districts that are divided into smaller counties. These districts are the First Appellate District (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Solano, Sonoma, Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, Mendocino), Second Appellate District (Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura), Third Appellate District (Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Mono, San Joaquin, Butte, Colusa, El Dorado, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity, Yolo, Yuba), Fourth Appellate District (Inyo, Imperial, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego), Fifth Appellate District (Fresno, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, Stanislaus, Tulare, Tuolumne, Kern), and Sixth Appellate District.
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This text explains the formatting guidelines for documents filed in connection with appeals or original proceedings. It includes instructions for pagination (numbering pages consecutively with the Arabic numbering system) and bookmarks (text links that appear in the Bookmarks Panel of Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat). It also explains how to create bookmarks for tables of contents and indexes in appendices and exhibits.
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Betty L. Dawson is an Associate Justice of the Court of Appeal, Fifth Appellate District. She was appointed in 2003 and has held other judicial offices, such as Judge of the Superior Court in Merced County. Before becoming a judge, she had a private law practice and was a research attorney for the California Court of Appeal. She has been a member of various organizations, such as the California Judges Association and the National Association of Women Judges. She has also taught at Merced College and was a teaching fellow at Stanford Law School. She has a law degree from Hastings College of the Law and a bachelor's degree in history from San Francisco State University. She is married with two children and enjoys travel, gardening, and the outdoors.
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Justice Betty Barry-Deal was the first woman to serve on the First District Court of Appeal in California. She grew up in Susanville, a small town in Lassen County, and graduated from the University of California in 1944. She attended Boalt Hall School of Law, where she met and married her husband John Pierpont Deal. After he died unexpectedly of a heart attack in 1951, she was left to care for her two young children and miraculously was able to finish her legal studies, pass the bar, and find a way to practice law in an almost all-male-dominated profession. Justice Barry-Deal talks about her childhood growing up in Susanville, her experience attending college, and her decision to pursue a career in law.
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Betty Barry-Deal was a retired Associate Justice of the Court of Appeal, First Appellate District, Division Three. She was appointed by Governor Brown Jr. in 1980 and confirmed by the Commission on Judicial Appointments. She was also a Judge of the Superior Court in Alameda County from 1977-1980 and a private law practitioner from 1963-1977. She authored several significant decisions, including Wylie v. Gresch, Barbara A. v. John G., and In re Lynna B. She was also a member of the Governor Wilson's Commission to Redraw State's Political Boundaries in 1991.
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Notice of Entry" is not the same as the entry of the judgment or order. The entry of a judgment or order occurs when the court signs the judgment or order. ) If the notice of appeal is not timely filed, the Court of Appeal will dismiss the appeal. 7. Standard of review What standard of review applies? The standard of review is the set of rules that govern how the court determines whether an error occurred. The standard of review varies depending on the type of issue and the procedural context, but it usually includes a presumption that the trial court’s decisions were correct. In civil cases, the court will reverse the judgment only if it concludes it is reasonably probable that, without the error, the result would have been more favorable to the appellant. IV. MECHANICS OF THE APPELLATE PROCESS A. The n otice of a ppeal The appellant must file a notice of appeal in the Court of Appeal within the time limits discussed above. The notice of appeal must include the name of the appellant, the name of the respondent, the name of the trial court, the trial court’s case number, and the date of the appealable judgment or order. The notice of appeal must be signed by the appellant or the appellant
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Justice Barton Gaut is a retired justice of the California Court of Appeal, Fourth District. He grew up in Hawthorne, California and attended UCLA college and Boalt Hall law school. He was in the Army and worked as a lawyer for the firm Best Best & Krieger. He was a workaholic and achieved a stellar reputation in the community. He was involved in the Bar Association and his church. He commented on the changes in the practice of law over the years, noting that some lawyers were more concerned with getting away with things.
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Justice Barton C. Gaut was appointed by Governor Wilson to a newly-created position on the Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, Division Two in 1997. He was then confirmed by the Commission on Judicial Appointments and the electorate in 1998. Before that, he was appointed by Governor Wilson to the Consolidated Superior and Municipal Courts in Riverside County in 1995. He had previously been a partner at Best, Best & Krieger law firm in Riverside, California. He has a Bachelor of Science from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Law Degree from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the Leo A. Deegan Inn of Court and has been President of the Riverside County Barrister and Riverside County Bar Association.
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Judge Arthur L. Alarcón was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit in 1979 and assumed Senior Judge status in 1992. He was also a former Associate Justice of the Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Four, and a Judge of the Superior Court in Los Angeles County. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and was awarded the Combat Infantry Badge, four Battle Stars, the Bronze Star, and the Purple Heart. He received his LL.B. from the University of Southern California Law School and his B.A. from the University of Southern California. He was admitted to the California Bar in 1952.
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