28 U.S.C. § 84

California

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California is divided into four judicial districts to be known as the Northern, Eastern, Central, and Southern Districts of California.

Northern District

(a) The Northern District comprises the counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, Marin, Mendocino, Monterey, Napa, San Benito, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, San Francisco, San Mateo, and Sonoma.

Court for the Northern District shall be held at Eureka, Oakland, San Francisco, and San Jose.

Eastern District

(b) The Eastern District comprises the counties of Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, El Dorado, Fresno, Glenn, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Lassen, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, Modoc, Mono, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Solano, Stanislaus, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity, Tulare, Tuolumne, Yolo, and Yuba.

Court for the Eastern District shall be held at Bakersfield, Fresno, Redding, and Sacramento.

Central District

(1) The Eastern Division comprises the counties of Riverside and San Bernardino.

Court for the Eastern Division shall be held at a suitable site in the city of Riverside, the city of San Bernardino, or not more than 5 miles from the boundary of either such city.

(2) The Western Division comprises the counties of Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura.

Court for the Western Division shall be held at Los Angeles.

(3) The Southern Division comprises Orange County.

Court for the Southern Division shall be held at Santa Ana.

Southern District

(d) The Southern District comprises the counties of Imperial and San Diego.

Court for the Southern District shall be held at San Diego.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 388 cases (281 in the last 5 years), 1949–2026 · leading case: Jeffrey L. Clemens v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, United States of America, Rea

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Jeffrey L. Clemens v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, United States of America, Rea (2005) ca9 “28 U.S.C. § 84 . District judges in the Central District have chambers in four separate courthouses.”

Ricardo Garcia-Santos v. United States (2001) ca2 “§ 371 , 28 U.S.C. § 84 . The District Court denied his petition on the ground that Garcia-Santos had pleaded guilty under a plea agreement in which he expressly agreed not to appeal or attack his conviction under § 2255 if he was sentenced within or below a stipulated range; the…”

Otay Mesa Property L.P. v. United States Department of the Interior (2008) dcd “The location of the controversy is best described as having arisen in the Southern District of California because the portion of Plaintiffs’ property that was designated as part of the critical habitat is located in San Diego County, which is wholly subsumed by the Southern…”

Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission v. National Football League (1981) cacd “28 U.S.C. § 84 . Although the Los Angeles Coliseum is located in Los Angeles County, the Big “A” Stadium, in which the defendant Los Angeles Rams play, is located in the City of Anaheim in Orange County.”

LG Electronics Inc. v. Advance Creative Computer Corp. (2001) vaed “See 28 U.S.C.A. § 84 (c). “Specific jurisdiction exists when the claim in issue arises from the defendant’s contacts with the forum state.”

Stevenson v. Jones (2017) cand “See 28 U.S.C. §§ 84 , 1391(b). This Court has federal question jurisdiction over this action under 42 U.”

Villa v. Salazar (2013) dcd “See 28 U.S.C. § 84 (b) (defining judicial district of the Eastern District of California).”

Atwal v. Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (2011) dcd “See 28 U.S.C. § 84 . (Defs.’ Mem. at 4.) Significantly, Atwal pursued an underlying EEOC complaint in the Northern District of California, not in this district.”

Citizens for a Better Environment-California v. Union Oil Co. (1994) cand “28 U.S.C. § 84 (b). The Eastern District is therefore the only district in which venue is proper under the Act'.”

United States v. Ezequiel Moran-Garcia (2020) ca9 “”3 Thus it is beyond debate that the location of the putative offense was within the territorial waters of the United States but was not within the Southern District of California. Controlling circuit law establishes that, although venue is not an element of the offense,…”

Tuttle v. Salazar (2013) dcd “Tuttle’s claim located within the Central District of California, see 28 U.S.C. § 84 (c) (defining judicial district of the Central District of California), but also, Mr.”

Johnson v. Citibank, N.A. (2014) mdd · cites it 2× “In Tanzman , the plaintiff had filed his complaint in state court in San Mateo County, within the Northern District of California, see 28 U.S.C. § 84 (a), and the case then was transferred to San Diego County, within the Southern District of California, 28 U.”

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— 28 U.S.C. § 84(d) — 2 cases

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