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California Court of Appeal / Joined 1998 / Served to 2011

Richard J. Mcadams

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Richard J. Mcadams was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1998. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born
1944 · age 82
Tenure
1998–2011 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

YearCourtAppointed byVote
1998California Court of Appeal––
2003California Court of Appeal––

Judicial Record

In our data, Mcadams authored 61 published opinions for the court (2004–2011), plus 1 dissent and 7 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Shaun R. (182 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 18 of these were attributed to Mcadams by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

YearCaseCitationCited
2010People v. Shaun R.188 Cal. App. 4th 1129182
2006County of Santa Clara v. Atlantic Richfield Co.· Concurrence†40 Cal. Rptr. 3d 313158
2009K.C. Multimedia, Inc. v. Bank of America Technology & Operations, Inc.171 Cal. App. 4th 939149
2009Spinks v. Equity Residential Briarwood Apartments171 Cal. App. 4th 1004148
2004Abramson v. Juniper Networks, Inc.9 Cal. Rptr. 3d 422119
2006San Lorenzo Valley Community Advocates for Responsible Education v. San Lorenzo Valley Unified School District44 Cal. Rptr. 3d 128114
2010Melton v. Boustred183 Cal. App. 4th 521113
2007E-Fab, Inc. v. Accountants, Inc. Services64 Cal. Rptr. 3d 9112
2009California Native Plant Society v. City of Santa Cruz177 Cal. App. 4th 957105
2010Molecular Analytical Systems v. Ciphergen Biosystems, Inc.186 Cal. App. 4th 696103
2007Huh v. Wang†158 Cal. App. 4th 140695
2006People v. Russell51 Cal. Rptr. 3d 26394
2005Berg & Berg Enterprises, LLC v. Sherwood Partners, Inc.32 Cal. Rptr. 3d 32578
2009Hoffman v. SMITHWOODS RV PARK, LLC179 Cal. App. 4th 39072
2011People v. Cortes†192 Cal. App. 4th 87368

Showing the 15 most-cited of 69 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the California Court of Appeal reach the bench?
The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Richard J. Mcadams on?
Richard J. Mcadams was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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12 years on the California Court of Appeal. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).