California Court of Appeal

A purported assignment of cases filed in Juvenile Court under Welfare and Institutions Code section 602 "for all purposes, including trial," to a particular judge was not a valid "assignment for all purposes" sufficient to trigger the time for peremptory challenge of the judge where the assignment was made in the "notice of petition" by a court clerk by way of an informal practice rather than a court rule or order.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/02/2006
• Published 05/02/2006

Judges

• SIMS, Acting P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James Larsen, Public Defender, Edmund B. Shaver and Nelson C. Lu, Deputy Public Defenders, for Petitioner in No. C050566., James Larsen, Public Defender, Vickie L. Delph and Nelson C. Lu, Deputy Public Defenders for Petitioner in No. C051071., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson and Mary Jo Graves, Assistant Attorneys General, Carlos A. Martinez, George M. Hendrickson and Stephen G. Herndon, Deputy Attorneys General, for Real Party in Interest.


• For Appellees:
  
• No appearance for Respondent.