Welcome to Tulare County
The Tulare County Public Law Library was established in this year, the same year that Congress created the US Courts of Appeal to lessen the US Supreme Court’s caseload.
When is 1891?
Ever waited in line for a cable car? Congratulations, you were a hop skip and a jump away from this public law library, located at 1145 Market St.
What is the San Francisco Public Law Library?
Companies offering legal databases like Westlaw and Lexis never let these people use their generative AI tools. Nothing but ChatGPT for you, Jane Doe, in pro per, so you’d better check your work.
Who are self-represented litigants?
In propria persona means “for oneself.” It’s what you call yourself if you’re representing yourself in court without an attorney, and you’ll often see it abbreviated “in pro per,” with courts and legal professionals referring to self-represented individuals as “pro pers.” There are lots of pro pers, but especially in this practice area, where forms are abbreviated FL.
What is Family Law?
Not being fake + Land and lots
What is Real Property?
Tulare County’s public law library helps everyone, no matter the case type, but there are certain case types where people often end up unable to find or afford attorneys to represent them: debt collection cases, evictions, distributing property after someone dies, and disputes in this practice area, over title, boundary lines, easements, and reforming or rescinding written instruments.
What is Real Property?
The second largest public law library in the country is in California in this county, which boasts seven floors of state, federal, and international legal materials right in the heart of its largest city’s downtown. Just be sure to plan for traffic.
Where is Los Angeles County?
In criminal cases, you are assigned a public defender if you can’t afford an attorney. In civil cases, not so: you might have no choice but to litigate your case by yourself. This is up for debate though, with many arguing that public attorneys should be appointed in these types of cases, too, because housing is too important to risk injustice from lack of representation.
What are unlawful detainers?
Detainees may petition for this kind of writ if they believe their detention violates federal law. Translated from Latin, it means, that you have the body.
What is habeas corpus?
A smart, well-read person + More land, more lots
Intellectual Property
Have $3,000 to spare? Lucky you. Get yourself a subscription to this legal database or come to the Tulare County Public Law Library and save it for law school instead.
What is Westlaw?
California’s county public law libraries are governed by this code, the same one that says only attorneys can give legal advice and that unauthorized practice of law is a misdemeanor.
What is the Business & Professions Code?
Small claims court only hears cases where the amount in dispute is $12,500 or less. If you need to sue for more than that, you’ll be facing this kind of case, which has more complicated procedures, takes far more time to litigate, and permits either or both parties to be represented by attorneys.
What are limited jurisdiction cases?
One opinion per judge? Bah! Who has the time? Better for them to write it together, by the court, issuing a decision made this way.
What is per curiam?
Details about my life + Ouch, that hurt!
What is Personal Injury?
Tulare County has three courthouses. This one in Visalia, the South County Justice Center, and this other courthouse, which exclusively handles cases that are confidential, quasi-criminal, and quasi-civil.
Wat is the Juvenile Justice Center?
County public law libraries aren’t funded by taxes. They get a small portion of each one of these, charged when you go to the court clerk's window to turn in your documents.
What are civil filing fees?
The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) conducts research measuring the "justice gap" - the gap between the need for civil legal assistance among low-income Americans and the resources available to meet that need. As of 2022, this percentage of the civil legal problems of low-income Americans did not receive any or enough legal help.
What is 92%?
A legal time machine, a magical mistake-fixer, making it Now what it should have been Then.
What is nunc pro tunc?
Respect them! + Flaw minus the 'f'
What is Elder Law?