United States District Court for the Northern District of California information
U.S. federal district court in California
United States District Court for the Northern District of California
(N.D. Cal.)
Location
Phillip Burton Federal Building
(San Francisco)
More locations
Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building
(Oakland)
San Jose
Eureka / McKinleyville
Appeals to
Ninth Circuit
Established
August 5, 1886
Judges
14
Chief Judge
Richard Seeborg
Officers of the court
U.S. Attorney
Ismail Ramsey
U.S. Marshal
Mark Kolc (acting)
www.cand.uscourts.gov
The United States District Court for the Northern District of California (in case citations, N.D. Cal.) is the federal United States district court whose jurisdiction comprises the following counties of California: Alameda, Contra Costa, Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, Marin, Mendocino, Monterey, Napa, San Benito, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and Sonoma. The court hears cases in its courtrooms in Eureka, Oakland, San Francisco, and San Jose. It is headquartered in San Francisco.
Cases from the Northern District of California are appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit).
Because it covers San Francisco and Silicon Valley, the Northern District of California has become known as the presumptive destination for major federal lawsuits (such as large class actions and multi-district litigation) involving defendants based in East Asia and the high tech sector.
[1] These cases usually involve patent law and intellectual property law (such as copyright law and DMCA issues as well as trademark law and trade secret law) - especially in the semiconductor, telecommunications and software industries and other high technology areas, antitrust law, securities law, and technology law in general (e.g., cybersecurity, Internet law, computer law and cases involving software).
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