The Uniform Determinate Sentencing Act of 1976 was a bill signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown to changes sentencing requirements in the California...

passage of the Uniform Determinate Sentencing Act of 1976. The introduction of determinate sentencing and subsequent increases in prison sentence lengths...

entire country. A summary of the penalties for California's homicide offenses is listed below. Under the California Uniform Bail Schedule, the standard...

sentenced to death in 2004 and has challenged his death sentence by challenging California's sentencing statutes that only require convictions to be proven...

dimethylamphetamine are Schedule 2 on the California Uniform Controlled Substances Act, which is part of the California Health and Safety Code. Methamphetamine...

Code of California forms the basis for the application of most criminal law, criminal procedure, penal institutions, and the execution of sentences, among...

Use Act of 1996 (Proposition 215), which passed with 56% voter approval. In November 2016, California voters approved the Adult Use of Marijuana Act (Proposition...

at a uniform 1% rate of assessed value due to Proposition 13. Additional taxes may be charged for bond repayment or special assessments, all of which...

state's two open meeting laws, the Brown Act and the Bagley-Keene Act, both contain the sentence: "The people of this state do not yield their sovereignty...

The California Alien Land Law of 1913 (also known as the Webb–Haney Act) prohibited "aliens ineligible for citizenship" from owning agricultural land...

government passed the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), to institute a statewide policy of environmental protection. CEQA does not directly regulate...

tribes can operate casinos under the federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act. As of 2019, there were 63 casinos operated by 61 different tribes. The industry...

potential victim be informed of the threat. Marvin v. Marvin (1976): The Court ruled in favor of the enforceability of non-marital relationship contracts...

Three Feet for Safety Act 21760. (a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Three Feet for Safety Act. (b) The driver of a motor vehicle overtaking...

signature. The Motor Vehicle Act of 1913 made driver's licenses mandatory for all motor vehicle operators in California as of December 31, 1913 (no citation...

The Civil Code of California is a collection of statutes for the State of California. The code is made up of statutes which govern the general obligations...

The California Courts of Appeal are the state intermediate appellate courts in the U.S. state of California. The state is geographically divided along...

The California Public Records Act (Statutes of 1968, Chapter 1473; currently codified as Division 10 of Title 1 of the California Government Code) was...

California Practice Act of 1851 (drafted with the help of Stephen Field), which was directly based upon the New York Code of Civil Procedure of 1850 (the Field...

The Act for the Government and Protection of Indians (Chapter 133, Cal. Stats., April 22, 1850), nicknamed the Indian Indenture Act was enacted by the...

original California Constitution of 1849 and the California Judiciary Act of 1851 had created multi-county district courts of general jurisdiction which supervised...

contains a "charity care" law for fair hospital pricing California End of Life Option Act in Division 1. Section 443 - 443.22 laws regarding vaccine exemptions...

Consumers Legal Remedies Act ("CLRA") is the name for California Civil Code §§ 1750 et seq. The CLRA declares unlawful several "methods of competition and unfair...

of criminal justice, and authored the Uniform Determinate Sentencing Act of 1976, which mandated fixed sentences for most crimes. In 1972, Nejedly authored...

interest could be ripened by the insurer's act of sending a reservation of rights letter into an actual conflict of interest, which in turn meant that the...

formerly mostly common-law law of evidence. Section 351 of the Code effectively abolished any remnants of the law of evidence not explicitly included...

the Court of Appeal must issue a full decision on the issue. For example, a writ petition is the only way for a denial of a Public Records Act lawsuit to...

The California Administrative Procedure Act (APA) is a series of acts of the California Legislature first enacted 15 June 1945 that requires California...

codification of the Practice Act of 1851, as amended and revised. In turn, the Practice Act had been modeled after the New York Code of Civil Procedure of 1850...

Susan Ann (1 September 1976). "The California Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1973". Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review. 9. Law of April 24, 1937, ch...