Northern District of California Court Records

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Search for court records online in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California (N.D. Cal.) and lookup case information on federal litigation in the following counties in California: Alameda, Contra Costa, Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, Marin, Mendocino, Monterey, Napa, San Benito, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and Sonoma. Access the court dockets, court documents, transcripts, and legal data you need on the parties, attorneys, law firms, and judges involved in the court cases in the California Northern District.

About the Northern District of California

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has jurisdiction over Alameda, Contra Costa, Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, Marin, Mendocino, Monterey, Napa, San Benito, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and Sonoma counties. The Northern District of California was established in 1850, just two years after California was ceded to the U.S. by Mexico and mere weeks after California gained statehood. California’s first two federal courts were established at the same time and divided the state into a northern and a southern district. The Northern District currently has fourteen United States District Judges and twelve United States Magistrate Judges.

The N.D. Cal. has four separate courthouse locations, including the Phillip Burton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 450 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94102; the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 1301 Clay Street, Oakland, CA 94612; the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 280 South 1st Street, San Jose, CA 95113; and the U.S. Courthouse, 3140 Boeing Avenue, McKinleyville, CA 95519.

The Clerk of Court is Mark B. Busby. The Office of the Clerk of Court is located at the Phillip Burton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse. The Office can be reached by calling (415) 522-2000.

The Chief Judge is the Hon. Richard Seeborg, located at the Phillip Burton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in San Francisco in Courtroom 3. You can reach the Chief Judge’s Chambers by calling (415) 522-2123.

The Chief Magistrate Judge is the Hon. Joseph C. Spero, located at the Phillip Burton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in San Francisco in Courtroom F. You can reach the Chief Magistrate Judge’s Chambers by calling (415) 522-2035.

The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California is Stephanie M. Hinds, who has been a prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for 27 years. The U.S. Attorney’s Main Office for the Northern District of California is located at the Phillip Burton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse. You can reach the U.S. Attorney’s Main Office in the Northern District by calling (415) 436-7200.

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Locating the court records you need for the Northern District of California from the Public Access to Court Electronic Records, or PACER, can be cost-prohibitive, grueling, and time-intensive.

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Along with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, UniCourt gives you access to court records for all of the other U.S. District Courts in California, including the Eastern District of California, the Central District of California, and the Southern District of California. UniCourt also provides you with bulk access to all federal court records within California, such as cases filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at the James R. Browning U.S. Courthouse and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California. Beyond federal court records across the State of California, UniCourt further provides you with access to California state court records for many of the counties in the Northern District, including San Francisco County, Alameda County, San Mateo County, and Santa Clara County.

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California Northern District Court

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450 Golden Gate Avenue, Box 36060, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA

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