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—where the judicial power of courts, either original or appellate, is fixed by constitutional provisions, the legislature cannot either limit or extend that jurisdiction

- in COMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT v. ENERGY RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND …, 2020 and 10 similar citations

Because original jurisdiction has been vested in these courts by the California Constitution, the Legislature is not free to defeat or impair that jurisdiction

- in Gerawan Farming, Inc. v. Agricultural Labor Relations Bd., 2016 and 4 similar citations

—are tribunals which exercise functions of a strictly judicial character,... Boards of supervisors, common councils, and other local boards, while they may be invested with mixed powers, including, among others, the power to act judicially in a matter before them, are not courts. At best, they are, in the exercise of that power, proceeding as quasi judicial bodies, something …

- in Stevens v. Board of Education, 1970 and 4 similar citations

"The appeal to the superior court, when provided for by the legislature, can only be from a court-either a justice or inferior court-and the right of appeal cannot be given from any other tribunal."

- in California Law Review and 3 similar citations

For example, the Chinn court stated, "a board of supervisors may exercise judicial functions,[but] it is by no means an inferior court within the meaning of that term as employed in the Constitution relative to the appellate jurisdiction of the superior courts."

- in Lakeside Industries v. Thurston County, 2004 and 3 similar citations

But we need not decide these issues because this is not an appeal from a justice or other inferior Mason County court.

- in Lakeside Industries v. Thurston County, 2004 and 2 similar citations

The purpose of the 1950 amendment to that section as shown by the arguments to voters was to reduce the number of inferior courts in the state, not to interfere in anywise with the quasi-judicial powers of boards and officers who are not courts in the sense of that section

- in Savage v. Sox, 1953 and 2 similar citations

Although the Brown Act artificially classifies it as a legislative body, a board of supervisors actually performs legislative, executive and even quasi-judicial functions

- in Sacramento Newspaper Guild v. SACRAMENTO CTY. BD., 1968 and 2 similar citations

But in so doing the Legislature could not, of course, deprive the superior court of its constitutional jurisdiction

- in Schlyen v. Schlyen, 1954 and 2 similar citations

The superior courts retained appellate jurisdiction over matters within the original jurisdiction of the justice courts and other inferior courts

- in Snukal v. Flightways Manufacturing, Inc., 2000 and one similar citation