Welcome to the Superior Court of Santa Clara County. Jury Service, E-Filing, Traffic Tickets, Self-Help, Contact Clerk's Office.It protects the right for citizens to have a jury trial in federal courts with civil cases where the claim exceeds a certain dollar value. On this page below is a list of LOCAL forms that can be completed online and then printed. The form you need may be in this list. As with previous editions, this manual focuses on the law, procedures and practices in the Ninth Circuit governing jury trials. Any case for which all parties do not consent will be reassigned to a District Judge in the San Francisco, Oakland, or San Jose division. The Court ruled that the Seventh Amendment requires a jury to determine whether an entity is liable for civil penalties under the Clean Water Act. Depending on the summoning court in SF you may be allowed to reschedule your appearance for any week within 6 month period. Rather, we endorse the use, at the beginning of the trial, of more substantive legal instructions about the issues that the jury will confront in the case.