PRESS RELEASE
Superior Court of California, County of Kern

October 5, 2017
TERRY McNALLY, PIO 661-868-4934

SUPERIOR COURT SELECTS ASSISTANT PRESIDING JUDGE
The Honorable Charles R. Brehmer, Presiding Judge, announced the unanimous selection of Judge Judith K. Dulcich as the next Assistant Presiding Judge of the Superior Court of California, County of Kern. Judge Dulcich will assume her new duties on January 1, 2018 and succeeds Judge John S. Somers, current Assistant Presiding Judge, who has completed a four year leadership term as Assistant Presiding and Presiding Judge of the Superior Court.

“Judge Dulcich is a proven leader at our Court” said Presiding Judge Brehmer. “She has a unique combination of experience in both our Regional and Metro Court locations that will help her as she takes on the leadership responsibilities for our court in the future.” Judge Brehmer also thanked Judge Somers for his leadership of the Court and steady hand over the past four years.
Judge Dulcich was appointed to the Superior Court in 2007. Her assignments at the Court include Family Law, Criminal Misdemeanor and Felony and Supervising Judge of the North Kern branch of the Superior Court. Prior to her appointment, Judge Dulcich served with the Office of the Kern County District Attorney from 1990 to October 2007. In addition to being a Supervising Deputy District Attorney, Judge Dulcich had experience litigating murder, sex assault, child molestation and other significant felony and misdemeanor cases as a District Attorney.

Judge Dulcich is a graduate from the University of San Diego Law School, May 1990, and obtained her Bachelor of Arts from San Diego State University in May 1987.
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July 2017 – Notice to Attorneys

LOS ANGELES COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT

SOME ONLINE SERVICES WILL BE UNAVAILABLE JULY 29 THROUGH JULY 31

Due to a major system upgrade, the following limited civil jurisdiction online services will be unavailable from 5:00 a.m. Saturday, July 29, through 5:00 p.m. Monday, July 31, 2017:

• Limited Civil Court Reservation System (CRS)
• Limited Civil Case Summary
• Limited Civil Party Name Search
• Limited Civil Case Calendar

No interruption of other website services is anticipated.

The new Limited Civil case management system is scheduled to go live on July 31, 2017. The Los Angeles Superior Court thanks you for your patience as we transition to a new case management system for limited jurisdiction civil cases. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Click here to see official notice – LASC 7-20-17

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NOTICE TO ATTORNEYS

Los Angeles Superior Court – Public Information Office 111 N. Hill Street, Room 107, Los Angeles, CA 90012 publicinfo@lacourt.org www.lacourt.org

Thank you and have a wonderful week!

ACS email Service Interrupted – Nationwide Cyber Attacks

At approximately 8:30am PST, Attorney’s Certified Services began to experience intermittent issues sending and receiving emails. Our IT department began to research the problem and found news reports that the nation was under cyber attack. As of 2:00pm PST, the issues were resolved and email services were restored to our offices. We are asking clients who sent emails to us during this time, to confirm they were received.

MSN.com reported: SAN FRANCISCO — Multiple waves of online attacks blocked many major websites Friday, at times making it impossible for users on the East Coast to access Twitter, Spotify, Netflix, Amazon, Tumblr, Reddit and other sites. The attacks used Mirai, an easy-to-use program that allows even unskilled hackers to take over online devices and use them to launch distributed denial of service, or DDoS attacks. Malware from phishing emails can infect a computer or home network, then spread to everything on it, taking over DVRs, cable set-top boxes, routers and even Internet-connected cameras used by stores and businesses for surveillance. The source code for Mirai was released on the so-called dark web at the beginning of the month. Those are sites that require specific software or authorization to access and that operate as a sort of online underground for hackers. The release led some security experts to suggest it would soon be widely used by hackers. That appears to have happened in this case. The Mirai botnet harnesses the computing power of Internet connected devices as the engine behind its denial of service attacks. These devices then flood a particular site or service with large amounts of fake traffic, overwhelming the system and making it impossible for legitimate messages to get through.

Effects felt nationwide

The first attacks appear to have begun around 7:10 a.m. Friday, then resolved towards 9:30 a.m.. Then waves began. “It’s been a hectic day,” said York. Dyn  posted on its website that it “began monitoring and mitigating a DDoS attack against our Dyn Managed DNS infrastructure.” White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said the Department of Homeland Security was “monitoring the situation” but that “at this point I don’t have any information about who may be responsible for this malicious activity.”

Who and why unknown

So far Dyn has not been able to ascertain whether the attack is aimed at any specific customer. “We have no reason to believe it is at this point,” said Dave Allen, the company’s general counsel. The attack is “consistent with record-setting sized cyberattacks seen in the last few weeks,” said Carl Herberger, vice president of security at security company Radware.

Disruption

A post on Hacker News first identified the attack and named the sites that were affected. Several sites, including Spotify and GitHub, took to Twitter this morning to post status updates once the social network was back online. Twitter users similarly took to the service to keep lists of which sites were down and comment on the situation. The term DDoS quickly vaulted to among the top of the site’s list of “Trending Topics” in the United States. “DDoS attack this morning takes out Reddit, Twitter & Spotify,” wrote user @Anubis8. “Work productivity increases by 300%.” “Anyone else having a whole lot of trouble with sites loading properly this morning?,” tweeted Emmy Caitlin. “Paypal is down, Twitter was down, Netflix half loading.”

How the attack works

As part of its business, Dyn provides DNS services for a given swath of the Internet, effectively its address book. DNS stands for Domain Name System, the decentralized network of files that list the domain names human beings use, such as usatoday.com, with their numeric Internet Protocol addresses, such as 184.50.238.11, which is how computers look for websites. “If you go to a site, say yahoo.com, your browser needs to know what the underlying Internet address that’s associated with that URL is. DNS is the service that does that conversion,”  said Steve Grobman, chief technology officer for Intel Security. The attack hit the Dyn server that contains that address book. Dyn provides that service to multiple Internet companies. For anyone linked to a computer that used the service, when they entered twitter.com or tumblr.com or Spotify.com, via a complex series of jumps the address book is able to tell their browser which numerical IP address to look at. The DDoS attack floods that server with illegitimate requests, so many that very few real requests can get through. The user gets a message that the server is not available. Service is intermittent because a few requests are sometimes still able to go through. In addition, many sites keep cached address books their computers can refer to. However those caches always have a time limit on them and when that “time to live” expires, they must go back to the DNS server to confirm the IP address is valid. If the DNS server is unavailable, a site that was working could suddenly stop being available, said Grobman.

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Kern County Superior Court – Proposed Local Rules of Court, September 15, 2016

The proposed amendments to the Superior Court of California, County of Kern, Local Rules of Court for January 1, 2017 are provided for review at: www.kern.court.ca.gov

1. Rule 1.7.5       Metropolitan Division Venues
2. Rule 1.9          Facsimile Filing
3. Rule 1.10        Electronic Filing
4. Rule 6.1          Propria Persona Filings – Pleading Prepared by Third Party
5. Rule 6.1.1       Forms of Documents Presented for Filing
6. Rule 6.1.2       Obtaining a Hearing Date
7. Rule 6.18        Elisor Signatures by Clerk of the Court
8. Rule 8.12        Forms of Documents Presented for Filing

You may submit your comments by email to: wmadmin@kern.court.ca.gov or mail your comments to:

Terry McNally, CEO
Superior Court of California
County of Kern
1415 Truxtun Avenue
Bakersfield, CA 93301

All comments must be received by 5:00pm Tuesday, November 1, 2016

To see the official notice and the proposed rule changes in their entirity, please click here.

Riverside County Superior Court eFiling News Update

The Superior Court of California, County of Riverside has announced that they will stop the current electronic filing project and will no longer process eFilings after Friday, December 4.  Any filings submitted through Friday will be processed as normal.  Riverside is evaluating RFP responses for a new case management system and plans to resume the rollout of electronic filing during the implementation of the new system.

Attorney’s Certified Services will keep you updated on the new eFiling system as the information is made available to us. In the meantime, Attorney’s Certified Services is able to complete all filings to Riverside County Courts via email or fax. Just e-mail your assignments to orders@attorneyscertified.com and we’ll take care of the rest.

We want to thank everyone that participated in the pilot program in Riverside and look forward to working with you in the future.  Please note, that this does not affect eFiling operations in Orange County or San Francisco County Superior Courts. To eFile in Orange County or San Francisco County Superior Courts, please click here!

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KERN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT – PRESS RELEASE

Operations in Kern River Branch Court to Begin August 19, 2015.
The Superior Court, County of Kern has announced that restoration of limited court services will begin in the Kern River Branch Court on August 19, 2015. Services will include the hearing of filings for limited civil and small claims matters for local residents. Local law enforcement and other government agencies will also be filing traffic and other infractions to be heard at the local branch. The Court will open on Wednesdays at 8:30 AM and hearings will begin generally at 9:00 AM.

“We are very happy that we can once again begin to provide services to the Lake Isabella community,” said Judge Kenneth Pritchard, Supervising Judge for the Eastern District. “Getting this court back in operation is a team effort and my court staff and the volunteer pro tem judges should be congratulated for their efforts to get this project going so quickly.”

The Kern River Branch Court is located in Lake Isabella at 7046 Lake Isabella Blvd. It was closed for operations two years ago due to significant budget cuts. Residents should still file their court documents at the Ridgecrest Branch located at 132 East Coso Street. Payments can be made by telephone or online. More information can be found at www.kern.court.ca.gov.

“It took us more time than anticipated to get some of the technical connections with the local phone provider so that our computers could communicate with the primary servers,” said Terry McNally, Court Executive Officer for the Superior Court. “However we think we have everything we need in place to restore services to the local community.”

All Misdemeanor cases will continue to be heard at the Ridgecrest Branch Court facility and Felony cases are heard in the Superior Court, Metro Division, 1415 Truxtun Ave, Bakersfield Ca. For Questions concerning cases at the Kern River Branch Court please call (760) 384-5900.

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To view the official press release, click here! Kern River Press Release Aug 2015

Memorial Day 2015

Monday, May 25, 2015

Holiday Announcement: Just a friendly reminder that our Bakersfield, Los Angeles, Palm Springs and San Jose offices will be closed. we will resume normal business hours on Tuesday, May 26, 2015.

All State and Federal courts will be closed.

Please join us in honoring our military men and women who have given their lives and those who are currently serving this country to protect our freedoms!

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The entire team at Attorney’s Certified Services wishes you and yours a safe and pleasureful holiday!

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