Last week, we reviewed the data on the originating jurisdictions of the California Supreme Court's civil cases between 1995 and 1999. This week, we review the data from 2000 through 2005.

The Los Angeles Superior Court originated eighteen cases in 2000. The court heard six cases which arose from San Francisco, three from Santa Clara and two each from Sacramento County, San Diego and Riverside. The Court heard one case apiece from Sonoma, Marin, San Bernardino, San Mateo, San Luis Obispo, Tulare and Monterey County, the Workers Compensation Appeals Board, the California Medical Board, the California Labor Commissioner, the San Joaquin Local Agency Formation Commission, The City of Lodi City Council, the Malibu Municipal Court, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

Thirteen cases originated in the Los Angeles Superior Court in 2001. Seven cases came from Orange County. Four cases came from San Diego County, three each from San Francisco, three from Kern County and the United States District Court from the Central District of California. Two cases apiece arose from Sacramento and San Bernardino counties and the Workers Compensation Appeals Board. The court heard one case each from the State Board of Equalization, Marin, Riverside, Santa Barbara, Kings and San Joaquin counties, and the State Board of Equalization, the Commission on State Mandates, the Sierra Madre City Council, the Clovis Mobile Home Rent Review Commission and the State Commissioner of Insurance.

In 2002, Los Angeles produced a dozen cases. San Francisco produced five cases, Orange County produced three, and Santa Clara, Sacramento, San Diego, Fresno, Riverside and San Bernardino counties, the Department of Fair Employment and Housing and the United States District Court for the Central District of California produced two cases each. The court heard one case each from Sonoma, Santa Barbara, San Mateo and Contra Costa counties, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, the San Francisco Board of Permit Appeals, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California and the City of Manhattan Beach.

Join us back here tomorrow as we turn to the Court's record in 2003 and following.

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