According to The Chicago Tribune News Service, State Atty. Gen. Stanley Mosk of California has devised a series of questions which the joiner might well ask about any organization seeking his money and his name: 1.

According to the Centennial Record of the University of California, " In 1866 … at Founders ' Rock, a group of College of California men watched two ships standing out to sea through the Golden Gate.

According to the U. S. News & World Report's Best Graduate Schools 2011 ranking, " California Institute of Technology headlines the new rankings, with top billing in three categories: chemistry, earth sciences and physics.

According to the California Academy of Sciences, Mediterranean shrubland contains more than 20 % of the world's plant diversity.

According to Hawks, he spent fifteen weeks in basic training at the University of California in Berkeley where he was trained to be a squadron commander.

According to his memoirs, before arriving in California he dined in Washington with President Millard Fillmore and his family, but Eric Cline says that he didn't attend but simply read about it in the papers.

According to historian Mark Stegmaier, " The Fugitive Slave Act, the abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia, the admission of California as a free state, and even the application of the formula of popular sovereignty to the territories were all less important than the least remembered component of the Compromise of 1850 -- the statute by which Texas relinquished its claims to much of New Mexico in return for federal assumption of the debts.

According to statements from Joe's brother Tom to biographer Maury Allen, Rosalia's father wrote to her with the advice that Giuseppe could earn a better living in California than in their native Isola delle Femmine, an Italian town in North-Western Sicily, administratively part of the province of Palermo.

" According to this source, the name refers to the picturesque mountain peaks called the Needles, located near the Colorado River a few miles south of the city of Needles, California.

According to psychiatrist Robert Spitzer, NLP originated when Richard Bandler, a student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, was listening to and selecting portions of taped therapy sessions of the late Gestalt therapist Fritz Perls as a project for Robert Spitzer.

According to traditional continuity, both cities are located in the fictional U. S. state of Calisota, a portmanteau of California and Minnesota.

According to the California Secretary of State, as of April 2008, Kern County had 283, 732 registered voters.

According to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the county's population included 18, 640 state prison inmates as of March 31, 2010.

According to the California Employment Development Department, as of January 2011, civilian employment totaled 49, 200 and an additional 11, 000 people were unemployed.

According to the California Department of Finance, California had a 10 % surplus at the end of 1999 and California was projected to have a 4 % surplus at the end fiscal year 2000.

According to the California Employment Development Department, as of January 2007, most residents of the Hanford area were employed in services ( 29, 200 employees ), government ( 14, 300 employees ) and farming ( 7, 600 employees ) as well as in some manufacturing enterprises ( 3, 400 employees ).

According to California Watch, Bell Gardens has the highest percentage of residents who completed less than ninth grade ( 44. 9 %).

According to a 2006 state-funded economic survey, Coachella ranks third lowest in average personal income of any California city, and one of ten poorest cities in the state.

According to the California Economic Development Department, in 2005 the economy of Hemet was based on four main industries: retail trade, health and educational services, and government.

According to the salary survey released in September by the League of California Cities, salaries for city managers in the region range from $ 181, 135 ( Woodland ) to $ 353, 000 ( Roseville ), with most earning compensation over $ 200, 000.

* Retired California politician James R. Mills wrote a novel titled Gospel According to Pontius Pilate in 1978.

According to the Oakland Zoo in California, East African Hedgehogs are thought to estivate during the dry season.

According to some sources, the Reform movement has maintained that a Jew who has converted to another religion is no longer a Jew, and the Israeli Government has also taken that stance after Supreme Court cases and statutes.

According to the Supreme Court of the United States, the treaty power authorizes Congress to legislate under the Necessary and Proper Clause in areas beyond those specifically conferred on Congress ( Missouri v. Holland, 252 U. S. 416 ( 1920 )).

According to professor A. V. Dicey in An Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution, the essential features of a federal constitution are: a ) A written supreme constitution in order to prevent disputes between the jurisdictions of the Federal and State authorities ; b ) A distribution of power between the Federal and State governments and c ) A Supreme Court vested with the power to interpret the Constitution and enforce the law of the land remaining independent of both the executive and legislative branches.

According to the Supreme Court Historical Society, 20 goose-quill pens, neatly crossed, are placed at the four counsel tables each day the U. S. Supreme Court is in session ; " most lawyers appear before the Court only once, and gladly take the quills home as souvenirs.

According to former United States Assistant Attorney General Walter E. Dellinger III the Supreme Court and the Attorneys General have long interpreted the Take Care Clause as standing for the proposition that the President has no inherent constitutional authority to suspend the enforcement of the laws, particularly of statutes.

According to the Supreme Court, " redress of grievances " is to be construed broadly: it includes not solely appeals by the public to the government for the redressing of a grievance in the traditional sense, but also, petitions on behalf of private interests seeking personal gain.

According to Press-Enterprise Co. v. Superior Court,, trials can be closed at the behest of the government on account of there being " an overriding interest based on findings that closure is essential to preserve higher values and is narrowly tailored to serve that interest.

According to the Supreme Court, the Eighth Amendment forbids some punishments entirely, and forbids some other punishments that are excessive when compared to the crime, or compared to the competence of the perpetrator.

According to historian Robert Nisbet Bain, it was one of Elizabeth ’ s “ chief glories that, so far as she was able, she put a stop to that mischievous contention of rival ambitions at Court, which had disgraced the reigns of Peter II, Anne and Ivan VI, and enabled foreign powers to freely interfere in the domestic affairs of Russia .” She was also deeply religious, passing several pieces of legislation that undid much of the work her father had done to limit the power of the church.

According to the U. S. Supreme Court, the United States treated captured Barbary corsairs as prisoners of war, indicating that they were considered as legitimate privateers by at least some of their opponents, as well as by their home countries.

According to the report, all review submissions, with the exception of that provided by the Federal Magistrates ' Court, " considered that the most effective model for the delivery by the Courts of family law services would be a single family court, with two separate judicial divisions serviced by a single administration.

According to the Court, the change from a traditional common law approach to a less adversarial trial " has significant implications, not only for the conduct of family law litigation, but also for the conduct of litigation as a whole.

According to the Family Court, " in a less adversarial trial:

According to the Court, " the restrictive criminal abortion laws in effect in a majority of States today are of relatively recent vintage.

According to Blackmun, Stewart felt that the cases were a straightforward application of Younger v. Harris and recommended that the Court move forward as scheduled.

According to Josephus, there were ten entrances into the inner courts, four on the south, four on the north, one on the east and one leading east to west from the Court of Women to the court of the Israelites, named the Nicanor Gate.

According to the case law of the Supreme Court of the German Reich, the illegality of covertly conducted actions did not cancel out the principle of secrecy.

According to the opinion of the Supreme Court of the German Reich, every citizen owes his Fatherland a duty of allegiance regarding information, and endeavours towards the enforcement of existing laws may be implemented only through the utilization of responsible domestic state organs, and never by appealing to foreign governments.

According to ex-Chief of the Puerto Rico Supreme Court Jose Trias Monge, " no federal law has ever been found to be locally inapplicable to Puerto Rico.

According to a report issued in 2007 by the Basque Court of Auditors, the museum paid more than US $ 27 million for the acquisition of art between 2002 and 2005, including Serra's ' The Matter of Time ' for the cavernous ground-floor gallery.

According to a 1995 Supreme Court of India judgement the word Hindutva could be used to mean " the way of life of the Indian people and the Indian culture or ethos ".

According to a U. S. District Court Memorandum of Decision in 1993, Scientologists " have abused the federal court system by using it, inter alia, to destroy their opponents, rather than to resolve an actual dispute over trademark law or any other legal matter.

According to the Court, the statewide standard ( that a " legal vote " is " one in which there is a ' clear indication of the intent of the voter '") could not guarantee that each county would count the votes in a constitutionally permissible fashion.