California Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District
Overview
About This Court
The Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District, is one of California's six intermediate appellate courts, sitting between the Superior Courts and the California Supreme Court. It is housed on Capitol Mall in Sacramento, across from the State Capitol.
The court is one of three original appellate districts established when an 1904 amendment to the California Constitution created the Courts of Appeal as an intermediate layer of review. Unlike the First, Second, and Fourth Appellate Districts, which are divided into multiple divisions, the Third District operates as a single division.
Jurisdiction
The Third District's territory covers twenty-three counties in northern and eastern California, stretching from the Sacramento area east to the Nevada border and north to the Oregon border, an area larger than Connecticut, Delaware, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont combined:
- Alpine
- Amador
- Butte
- Calaveras
- Colusa
- El Dorado
- Glenn
- Lassen
- Modoc
- Mono
- Nevada
- Placer
- Plumas
- Sacramento
- San Joaquin
- Shasta
- Sierra
- Siskiyou
- Sutter
- Tehama
- Trinity
- Yolo
- Yuba
What the court hears
The Third District reviews civil and criminal appeals from the Superior Courts within its territory for legal error. Most of its decisions are final unless the California Supreme Court grants further review.
Practicing before the court
Any attorney admitted to the State Bar of California may appear before the Third District without a separate application or admission process specific to the court.
Attorneys
Credentialed to Appear Here
Admission to the Third Appellate District is its own credential, distinct from general licensure to practice law. The attorneys listed below hold that specific standing, whether the firm's admitted bar here spans one attorney or many. Each entry links to that attorney's full background.
Matters
Record Before This Court
The matters below reflect work the firm has carried before the Third Appellate District. Each was prepared by attorneys who followed the case from trial through appeal, not brought in once the record was already set. They stand as a record of practice before this court, not a forecast of how any future matter will proceed here.
Past results do not guarantee, warrant, or predict a similar outcome in any future matter. Every engagement is unique and must be evaluated on its own facts and circumstances.
From filing to final ruling
One Team, Through the Appeal
Appellate strategy holds up best when it takes shape alongside the trial record, not after it closes. The team that builds a matter here can carry it through review before the Third District. Explore the firm's litigation experience across trial and appeal, or reach out about a matter headed this court's way.