Two Pacific Ocean populations are known to exist: one of not more than 130 individuals ( according to the most recent population assessment in 2008 ) whose migratory route is presumed to be between the Sea of Okhotsk and southern Korea, and a larger one with a population between 20, 000 and 22, 000 individuals in the eastern Pacific travelling between the waters off Alaska and Baja California Sur.

Trouble is, not only is there no evidence that he purchased such an island, no one has ever been able to find any island whose name even resembles Pedloe in that area .< nowiki ></ nowiki > Nevertheless, Baum stated to the press that he had discovered a Pedloe Island off the coast of California and that he had purchased it to be " the Marvelous Land of Oz ," intending it to be " a fairy paradise for children.

The plight of U. S. Route 66 in particular, whose disappearance from the map in 1985 turned places like Glenrio, Texas and Amboy, California into overnight ghost towns, began to capture public attention with Route 66 associations springing up in every state as concern over preservation of decaying motels and other roadside infrastructure of the neon era came into view.

Legal proceedings in the 1990s helped bring to light hexavalent chromium releases in California -- the champions of whose victims became famous.

Richman continued recording on his own, eventually moving to California in 1975 to begin working with Beserkley Records whose boss Matthew King Kaufman had met Richman when he worked with A & M.

As a classically trained pianist whose sympathies with the twelve-tone technique of Arnold Schoenberg resulted in his studying composition with Alban Berg of the Second Viennese School, Adorno's commitment to avant-garde music formed the backdrop of his subsequent writings and led to his collaboration with Thomas Mann on the latter's novel Doctor Faustus, while the two men lived in California as exiles during the Second World War.

In that case, the Court unanimously ruled that while the First Amendment may allow private property owners to prohibit trespass by political speakers and petition-gatherers, California was permitted to restrict property owners whose property is equivalent to a traditional public forum ( often shopping malls and grocery stores ) from enforcing their private property rights to exclude such individuals.

This makes Darmstadt one of only eight cities with an element named after it ( the other cities being Ytterby in Sweden ( four elements ); Stockholm in Sweden ( Holmium ); Strontian in Scotland ; Copenhagen in Denmark ( whose Latin name gives Hafnium ); Paris ( whose Latin name gives Lutetium ); Berkeley, California ; and Dubna in Russia ).

Many fast food operations have more local and regional roots, such as White Castle in the Midwest United States, along with Hardee's ( owned by CKE Restaurants, which also owns Carl's Jr., whose locations are primarily on the United States West Coast ); Krystal, Bojangles ' Famous Chicken ' n Biscuits, Cook Out, and Zaxby's restaurants in the American Southeast ; Raising Cane's in Louisiana ; Hot ' n Now in Michigan and Wisconsin ; In-N-Out Burger ( in California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Texas ) and Original Tommy's chains in Southern California ; Dick's Drive-In in Seattle, Washington and Arctic Circle in Utah and other western states ; Halo Burger around Flint, Michigan and Burgerville in the Portland, Oregon area.

California Senator William M. Gwin's Act of March 3, 1851 created the Public Land Commission, whose purpose was to determine the validity of Spanish and Mexican land grants in California.

From this study, the most common spider submitted from California as a brown recluse was in the genus Titiotus, whose bite is deemed harmless.

A Canadian citizen whose children live in Canada and California, Hailey made his home in Lyford Cay, an exclusive residential resort on New Providence Island in the Bahamas with his second wife Sheila ( who wrote " I Married a Best-Seller " published in 1978 ).

The Governor of California is the chief executive of the California state government, whose responsibilities include making annual State of the State addresses to the California State Legislature, submitting the budget, and ensuring that state laws are enforced.

" Exceptions include the head of the Department of the California Highway Patrol, whose title is actually " commissioner.

The governing law is a constitution, interpreted by the California Supreme Court, whose members are appointed by the Governor, and ratified at the next general election.

The fund was used to create the Motion Picture Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California, and it led to the creation in 1956 of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, an honorary Academy Award given to an " individual in the motion picture industry whose humanitarian efforts have brought credit to the industry ".

Earl Warren was born in Los Angeles, California, on March 19, 1891, to Methias H. Warren, a Norwegian immigrant whose original family name was Varren, and Crystal ( Hernlund ), a Swedish immigrant.

Gil Losi Jr., whose family ran the " Ranch Pit Shop R / C " racetrack in Pomona, California, turned his college studies toward engineering, primarily in the field of injection molded plastics, leading to his foundation of Team Losi.

This critically endangered canid had evolved without predators but the large breeding population of Golden Eagles in California has spilled in numbers over to the islands and is there feeding largely on the foxes, whose already declining population cannot support sustained predation.

In most, but not all states ( California and New York are significant exceptions ), the state supreme court or a related administrative body has the power to write the rules of procedure that govern the courts through a rule making process.

Other justices of supreme courts who graduated from Stanford Law include the late Chief Justice of the United States William Rehnquist, current Montana Supreme Court Justice Brian Morris, retired Chief Justice of California Ronald M. George, retired California Supreme Court Justice Carlos R. Moreno, and the late California Supreme Court Justice Frank K. Richardson.

Legal challenges to these laws, arguing that they violate Roe v. Wade or other U. S. Supreme Court precedents, have been uniformly rejected by both the federal and the state courts, including the supreme courts of California, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota.

Among the states with circuit-riding supreme courts are California, Idaho, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Washington.

Lippa married film marketing executive David Bloch in July 2008 in Los Angeles, California, shortly after that state's supreme court handed down a ruling permitting marriage of same-sex couples.

The Supreme Court of California was the first state supreme court to abolish such laws.

A study published in 2007 by the Supreme Court of California found that of all state supreme courts in the United States, the decisions of the Kentucky Supreme Court were the least followed by other states ' appellate courts .< ref > Jake Dear and Edward W. Jessen, " Followed Rates " and Leading State Cases, 1940-2005, < span style =" font-variant: small-caps ;"> 41 U. C.

This decision made Connecticut the third state ( along with Massachusetts and California ) to legalize same-sex marriage through judicial decree of the state supreme court.

In 2005, a California federal court ruled that a group alleging that anthroposophy is a religion for Establishment Clause purposes did not provide any legally admissible evidence in support of this view ; the case is under appeal.

However, since the lawsuit was filed in a state California court, the lawsuit was tossed out because only federal courts have jurisdiction over intellectual property issues.

In October 1985, the California Supreme Court rejected Rosenthal's appeal of the multimillion-dollar judgment against him for legal malpractice, and upheld conclusions of a trial court and a Court of Appeal that Rosenthal acted improperly.

The Supreme Court of California, in affirming the disbarment, held that Rosenthal engaged in transactions involving undisclosed conflicts of interest, took positions adverse to his former clients, overstated expenses, double-billed for legal fees, failed to return client files, failed to provide access to records, failed to give adequate legal advice, failed to provide clients with an opportunity to obtain independent counsel, filed fraudulent claims, gave false testimony, engaged in conduct designed to harass his clients, delayed court proceedings, obstructed justice and abused legal process.

In California these come on an official court form and a party may ask another party to answer any of them by checking the appropriate boxes.

A can no more certainly provide notice to B in California than C could provide, and the transient and involuntary exposure of B to being haled into court in New York by this attachment seems to erode the original rationale of quasi in rem jurisdiction.

One of the first court cases regarding the nature of source code as free speech involved University of California mathematics professor Dan Bernstein, who had published on the Internet the source code for an encryption program that he created.

Though the Court upheld a law prohibiting the forgery, mutilation, or destruction of draft cards in United States v. O ' Brien,, fearing that burning draft cards would interfere with the " smooth and efficient functioning " of the draft system, the next year, the court handed down its decision in Brandenburg v. Ohio,, expressly overruling Whitney v. California, ( a case in which a woman was imprisoned for aiding the Communist Party ).

California and Oregon both opposed the measure out of fear of Chinese immigrants, New York initially ratified the amendment, but legislators later attempted to rescind the ratification, a controversial decision that might have resulted in a court challenge, but for the fact that on March 30, 1870, enough states had ratified the amendment for it to become part of the Constitution.

The American Independent Party of California has been an affiliate of the Constitution Party since its founding ; however, current party leadership is disputed and the issue is in court to resolve this conflict.

** In a Los Angeles, California court, Sirhan Sirhan admits that he killed presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy.

For example, in 2003, a federal district court in California found that Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act ( CERCLA ) applied because perchlorate is ignitable and therefore a “ characteristic ” hazardous waste.

Another three-player game is " California ", " In-and-Out ", or " King of the Court " where play is 1 vs. 1 with the third player remaining in the back court out of play while the other two play a rally ; the rally winner then serves to the player who was sitting out, and the rally loser stays out of play.

The US situation is under court ruling with a case in California.

Bono's legal transition was completed on May 8, 2010, when a California court granted his request for a gender and name change.

" On January 5, 1971, after several months in jail, Angela Davis appeared at the Marin County Superior Court and declared her innocence before the court and nation: " I now declare publicly before the court, before the people of this country that I am innocent of all charges which have been leveled against me by the state of California.

Specifically in California, Code of Civil Procedure § 1279. 5 and Family Code § 2082 regulate common law and court decreed name changes.

For example, in 2003, a federal district court in California found that Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act ( CERCLA ) applied because perchlorate is ignitable and therefore a “ characteristic ” hazardous waste.

* Law – A federal court in San Francisco, California, ruled that the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional, because of its " under God " clause.

The Court has original jurisdiction in a variety of cases, including habeas corpus proceedings, and has the authority to review all the decisions of the California Courts of Appeal, as well as an automatic appeal for cases where the death penalty has been issued by the trial court.

Each of California's 58 counties has its own superior court, which adds up to a total of 58 Superior Courts of California.

In June, 1998, California passed Proposition 220, which allowed the judges in each county to determine if the county should have only one trial court.