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	State	Statute	Description/Statute Name	Statutory language	Court/legal body	Function
Add to Dashboard + Create New	California	Cal. Con. art. VI, § 2	Supreme Court; justices; time for convening; concurrence required for judgment; acting Chief Justice	The Supreme Court consists of the Chief Justice ofCalifornia and 6 associate justices. The Chief Justice may convene the court at any time. Concurrence of 4 judges present at + See more the argument is necessary for a judgment. An acting Chief Justice shall perform all functions of the Chief Justice when the Chief Justice is absent or unable to act. The Chief Justice or, if the Chief Justice fails to do so, the court shall select an associate justice as acting Chief Justice.	Supreme Court	Creation of the courts
Add to Dashboard + Create New	California	Cal. Con. art. VI, § 3	Courts of appeal; districts; divisions; power; concurrence required for judgment; acting presiding justice	The Legislature shall divide the State into districts eachcontaining a court of appeal with one or more divisions. Each division consists of a presiding justice and 2 or more associate justices. + See more It has the power of a court of appeal and shall conduct itself as a 3-judge court. Concurrence of 2 judges present at the argument is necessary for a judgment. An acting presiding justice shall perform all functions of the presiding justice when the presiding justice is absent or unable to act. The presiding justice or, if the presiding justice fails to do so, the Chief Justice shall select an associate justice of that division as acting presiding justice.	Court of Appeals	Creation of the courts
Add to Dashboard + Create New	California	Cal. Con. Art. VI, Sec. 4	Superior courts; officers and employees; appellate divisions	In each county there is a superior court of one or morejudges. The Legislature shall prescribe the number of judges and provide for the officers and employees of each superior + See more court. If the governing body of each affected county concurs, the Legislature may provide that one or more judges serve more than one superior court. In each superior court there is an appellate division. The Chief Justice shall assign judges to the appellate division for specified terms pursuant to rules, not inconsistent with statute, adopted by the Judicial Council to promote the independence of the appellate division.	Superior Court	Creation of the courts
Add to Dashboard + Create New	California	Cal. Con. art. VI, § 12	Supreme Court; review	The Supreme Court may review the decision of a court of appeal in any cause.	Supreme Court	Jurisdiction of the courts
Add to Dashboard + Create New	California	Cal. Const. art. VI, § 1	Judicial power	The judicial power of this State is vested in the Supreme Court, courts of appeal, and superior courts, all of which are courts of record.	Judicial power generally	Jurisdiction of the courts
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Iowa	Iowa Code § 602.4102	Jurisdiction - Supreme Court	The supreme court has appellate jurisdiction only in cases in chancery, and constitutes a court for the correction of errors at law. The jurisdiction of the supreme court is coextensive + See more with the state.	Supreme Court	Jurisdiction of the courts
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Iowa	Iowa Code § 602.5103(1)-(2)	Jurisdiction - courts of appeals	1. The jurisdiction of the court of appeals is coextensive with the state. The court of appeals has appellate jurisdiction only in cases in chancery, and constitutes a court for + See more the correction of errors at law. 2. The court of appeals has subject matter jurisdiction to review the following matters: a. Civil actions and special civil proceedings, whether at law or in equity. b. Criminal actions. c. Postconviction remedy proceedings. d. A judgment of a district judge in a small claims action.	Court of appeals	Jurisdiction of the courts
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Iowa	Iowa Const. Art. 5 § 4	Supreme Court	The supreme court shall have appellate jurisdiction only in cases in chancery, and shall constitute a court for the correction of errors at law, under such restrictions as the general + See more assembly may, by law, prescribe; and shall have power to issue all writs and process necessary to secure justice to parties, and shall exercise a supervisory and administrative control over all inferior judicial tribunals throughout the state.	Supreme Court	Jurisdiction of the courts
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Iowa	Iowa Const. Art. 5 § 6	District Court	The district court shall be a court of law and equity, which shall be distinct and separate jurisdictions, and have jurisdiction in civil and criminal matters arising in their respective + See more districts, in such manner as shall be prescribed by law.	District Court	Jurisdiction of the courts
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Iowa	Iowa Code § 602.7101(2)	Juvenile Court	The jurisdiction of the juvenile court may be exercised by any district judge, and by any district associate judge who is designated by the chief judge as a judge of + See more the juvenile court.	Juvenile Court	Jurisdiction of the courts
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Iowa	Iowa Const. Art. 5 § 10	General assembly	[* * ] The general assembly may reorganize the judicial districts and increase or diminish the number of districts, or the number of judges of the said court, and may + See more increase the number of judges of the supreme court; but such increase or diminution shall not be more than one district, or one judge of either court, at any one session; and no reorganization of the districts, or diminution of the number of judges, shall have the effect of removing a judge from office. Such reorganization of the districts, or any change in the boundaries thereof, or increase or diminution of the number of judges, shall take place every four years thereafter, if necessary, and at no other time. At any regular session of the general assembly the state may be divided into the necessary judicial districts for district court purposes, or the said districts may be reorganized and the number of the districts and the judges of said courts increased or diminished; but no reorganization of the districts or diminution of the judges shall have the effect of removing a judge from office.	Judicial districts	Creation of the courts
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Iowa	Iowa Const. Art. 5 § 1	Judicial Power	The judicial power shall be vested in a supreme court, district courts, and such other courts, inferior to the supreme court, as the general assembly may, from time to time, + See more establish.	Courts generally	Creation of the courts
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Oregon	Or. Rev. Stat. § 1.002	Supreme Court jurisdiction	The Supreme Court is the highest judicial tribunal of the judicial department of government in this state. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is the presiding judge of the + See more court and the administrative head of the judicial department of government in this state.	Supreme Court	Jurisdiction of the courts
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Oregon	Or. Rev. Stat. § 2.516	Court of Appeals jurisdiction	Except where original jurisdiction is conferred on the Supreme Court by the Oregon Constitution or by statute and except as provided in ORS 19.405 (Certification of appeal to Supreme Court) + See more and 138.255 (Court of Appeals certification of appeal to Supreme Court in lieu of disposition), the Court of Appeals shall have exclusive jurisdiction of all appeals.	Court of Appeals	Jurisdiction of the courts
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Oregon	Or. Rev. Stat. § 3.012	Circuit Courts jurisdiction	The judicial districts, the counties constituting the judicial districts and the number of circuit court judges for each judicial district are as follows:…	Circuit Courts (36)	Jurisdiction of the courts
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Oregon	Or. Rev. Stat. § 3.255(2)	Family Court jurisdiction	The judges of the circuit court need adequate court services to assist them in exercising jurisdiction over the family and family-related matters	Family Court (part of circuit courts)	Jurisdiction of the courts
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Oregon	Or. Rev. Stat. § 3.260	Juvenille Court jurisdiction	The circuit courts and the judges thereof shall exercise all juvenile court jurisdiction, authority, powers, functions and duties.	Juvenille Court	Jurisdiction of the courts
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Oregon	Or. Rev. Stat. § 5.010	County Court jurisdiction	The county court is held by the county judge, except when county business is being transacted therein.	County Court	Jurisdiction of the courts
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Oregon	Or. Rev. Stat. § 1.001	Supreme Court creation	The Legislative Assembly hereby declares that, as a matter of statewide concern, it is in the best interests of the people of this state that the judicial branch of state + See more government, including the appellate, tax and circuit courts, be funded and operated at the state level. The Legislative Assembly finds that state funding and operation of the judicial branch can provide for best statewide allocation of governmental resources according to the actual needs of the people and of the judicial branch by establishing an accountable, equitably funded and uniformly administered system of justice for all the people of this state	Supreme Court	Creation of the courts
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Oregon	Or. Rev. Stat. § 2.510	Court of Appeals creation	As part of the judicial branch of state government, there is created a court of justice to be known as the Court of Appeals.	Court of Appeals	Creation of the courts

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