The new Superior Court of Los Angeles County began with two judges: Ygnacio Sepulveda and Volney E. Howard.Eventually the Superior Court's jurisdiction came to include all civil, felony criminal, family law, juvenile delinquency and dependency, and probate cases in the county.By 1988 the Municipal and Superior Courts began to cross-assign cases to ease the county's judicial backlog.[2] In 2000, a pilot Complex Civil Litigation Program was established in the Los Angeles Superior Court,[3] which has since been made permanent.[4] The Court uses the California Court Case Management System (CCMS) v3,[6] and exposes services to the public such as the Criminal Defendant Index, Civil Party Name Search, Civil Case Document Images, Traffic Ticket Online Services, e-File Small Claims, and Divorce Judgment Documents.Median spending for a judicial office election for the Los Angeles County Superior Court has risen from $3,177 in 1970 to $70,000 in 1994.The functions of the bailiff are carried out by Los Angeles County Sheriff, currently Robert Luna, under contract.
The Hill St entrance to the Stanley Mosk Courthouse