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    The Supreme Court of California is the highest and final court of appeals in the courts of the U.S. state of California. It is headquartered in San Francisco...
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    The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction...
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  • States, a state supreme court (known by other names in some states) is the highest court in the state judiciary of a U.S. state. On matters of state law, the...
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    the Supreme Court of the United States or the state supreme court. In contrast, "there is no horizontal stare decisis in the California Court of Appeal";...
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  • Supreme Court of California is the highest judicial body in the state and sits at the apex of the judiciary of California. Its membership consists of...
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    appointments to the Supreme Court of the United States. The first was Judge Sonia Sotomayor to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Justice David H...
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    The Supreme Court of Nevada is the highest state court of the U.S. state of Nevada, and the head of the Nevada Judiciary. The main constitutional function...
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    The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest-ranking judicial body in the United States. Its membership, as set by the Judiciary Act of 1869,...
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    90500 The Washington Supreme Court is the highest court in the judiciary of the U.S. state of Washington. The court is composed of a chief justice and...
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    six California courts of appeal, each with appellate jurisdiction over the superior courts within their districts, and the Supreme Court of California. As...
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    Supreme Court is the state supreme court of the U.S. state of Kentucky. Prior to its creation by constitutional amendment in 1975, the Kentucky Court...
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    United States. The counties of California are local arms of the State of California, described by the Supreme Court of California as agents ("the county is...
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    later overturned in court. The proposition was created by opponents of same-sex marriage in advance of the California Supreme Court's May 2008 appeal ruling...
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  • Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 (1978), was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that involved...
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    1972 when the California Supreme Court struck down California's capital punishment statute in the case People v. Anderson. California voters reinstated...
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  • November 5, 2008, a period of approximately 4 months and 20 days, as a result of the Supreme Court of California finding in the case of In re Marriage Cases...
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    State Bar of California is an administrative division of the Supreme Court of California which licenses attorneys and regulates the practice of law in California...
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    associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States is a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, other than the chief justice of the United...
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  • record of California Supreme Court of California California Courts of Appeal (6 appellate districts) Superior Courts of California (58 courts, one for...
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  • Regents of the University of California, 17 Cal. 3d 425, 551 P.2d 334, 131 Cal. Rptr. 14 (Cal. 1976), was a case in which the Supreme Court of California held...
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  • consisting of the California State Legislature, which includes the Assembly and the Senate; and the judicial, consisting of the Supreme Court of California and...
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  • to this article: Cohen v. California Cohen v. California, 403 U.S. 15 (1971), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court holding that the First Amendment...
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    Goodwin Liu (category Justices of the Supreme Court of California)
    justice of the Supreme Court of California. Before his appointment by California Governor Jerry Brown, Liu was Associate Dean and Professor of Law at the...
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    Courts of California include: State courts of record of California Supreme Court of California California Courts of Appeal (6 appellate districts) Superior...
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  • judicial power of the state of California which is vested in the Supreme Court, the Courts of Appeal and the Superior Courts. The judiciary has a hierarchical...
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    Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar (category Justices of the Supreme Court of California)
    of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He was previously a Justice of the Supreme Court of California, the Stanley Morrison Professor of Law...
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    Janice Rogers Brown (category Justices of the Supreme Court of California)
    before that, Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court from 1996 to 2005. She is a member of the Federalist Society and frequently features at...
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  • courts to employ their own court clerks independent of county clerks were upheld by the Supreme Court of California in 1989 and the Supreme Court of Nevada...
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    Supreme Court justices to use recent law school graduates as clerks, rather than hiring a "stenographer-secretary". The Supreme Court of California and...
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  • Samuel B. McKee (category Justices of the Supreme Court of California)
    Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California from January 5, 1880, to January 3, 1887. Including his time on the trial court, he sat on the bench...
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