In Lockyer v. Andrade,, the Court upheld a 50 years to life sentence with the possibility of parole imposed under California's three strikes law when the defendant was convicted of shoplifting videotapes worth a total of about $ 150.

* California's sodomy law is repealed.

In February 2008, a Facebook group formed by law professor John Palfrey encouraged him to run for Congress from California's 12th congressional district, the seat vacated by the death of U. S. Representative Tom Lantos.

During the same time, Meese served as vice chairman of California's Organized Crime Control Commission and was actively involved with the California Bar Association's criminal law section.

The current legal system in the U. S grants such forums a certain degree of protection through " Communications Decency Act, 47 U. S. C 230 " and California's Anti-SLAPP law.

More than 300 published court opinions have interpreted and applied California's anti-SLAPP law.

Public skateparks have had a resurgence in the US, made possible by legislation such as California's 1998 law stating that skateboarding is an inherently " Hazardous Recreational Activity " ( HRA ), and therefore municipalities and their employees may not be held liable for claims of negligence resulting in skateboarders ' injuries.

As a result of his work on the Ferguson case, a California Court of Appeal upheld the constitutionality of California's spam law.

When he was in the legislature, he wrote California's capital punishment law.

Richard Allen " Rick " Davis ( born June 2, 1954 ) is a convicted murderer, whose criminal record fueled support for passage of California's " Three strikes law " for repeat offenders.

In the wake of the murder, politicians in California and other U. S. states supported three strikes laws, and California's Three Strikes act was signed into law on March 8, 1994.

Outrage within San Francisco's gay community over the resulting seven-year sentence sparked the city's White Night Riots ; general disdain for the outcome of the court case led to the elimination of California's " diminished capacity " law.

Scott Peterson was convicted of double homicide under California's fetal homicide law.

In conjunction with his friend and ally in the Assembly, Willie Brown, Moscone managed to pass a bill repealing California's sodomy law.

The concept swiftly spread to other states, but none of them chose to adopt a law as sweeping as California's.

Under California's three strikes law, any felony can serve as the third " strike " and thereby expose the defendant to a sentence of 25 years to life in prison.

" In two separate opinions handed down on the same day, the court upheld California's three strikes law against an attack on direct appeal from conviction, Ewing v. California, 538 U. S. 11, and a collateral attack through a petition for habeas corpus, Lockyer v. Andrade, 538 U. S. 63 ( 2003 ).

Whitman opposed Proposition 23, which would delay the global warming law AB32 until California's unemployment falls to 5. 5 percent and stays there for a year, stating that the proposition did not reasonably balance the need to protect jobs with the need to preserve environment.

One of Jones's most notable contributions while in the Assembly was authoring Proposition 184, California's three-strikes law, which passed with 72 %.

During the November 2004 elections, Proposition 66, which would have further limited California's three-strikes law, was voted down at the polls by 53 % of the voters.

The law requires California's Department of Toxic Substances Control to prioritize " chemicals of concern ", and puts the burden of testing on the agency rather than industry.

The document requires employees to waive their right to sue their employer and establishes a cap for damages regarding any wrongdoing on the part of corporate or management, which violates California's well-established law on arbitration agreements.

Speiser v. Randall, 357 U. S. 513 ( 1958 ), was a U. S. Supreme Court case addressing the State of California's refusal to grant to ACLU lawyer Lawrence Speiser, a veteran of World War II, a tax exemption because that person refused to sign a loyalty oath as required by a California law enacted in 1954.

In Speiser v. Randall, 357 U. S. 513 ( 1958 ), the U. S. Supreme Court addressed the State of California's loyalty oath, as required by a California law enacted in 1954, as a condition of exemption from property tax.

A series of characters show the apparent statistical impact of Mexicans on California's economy, law enforcement and education systems as well as the resulting social unrest.

Among these bill, SB 697 prohibits balance billing of patients in the California's Healthy Families program, SB 1217 allows public oversight of the state bar pilots commission, SB 1356 which aims to protect victims of domestic violence from the threat of jail when they refrain from testifying against their abuser in court, SB 1370 which protects teachers from the retaliatory action of school officials as a result of student speech, SB 1696 which states that contracts between a government and a private entity should be subject to the same disclosure requirements as other public records, and SB 1419 which creates a double-fine zone on 19th and Van Ness Avenues — an area area with a historically high pedestrian collision rate.

In response, Yee introduced SB 330 which would require groups to abide by California's Public Records Act.

Federally, Carson is located in California's 37th congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of D + 27 and is represented by Democrat Laura Richardson.

Federally, West Carson is located in California's 36th and 37th congressional districts, which have Cook PVIs of D + 11 and D + 27 respectively and is represented by Democrats Jane Harman and Laura Richardson respectively.

Federally, West Compton is located in California's 37th congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of D + 27 and is represented by Democrat Laura Richardson.

At the time of statehood in 1850, La Porte was located in Yuba County, one of California's 27 original counties.

Douglas Arlo " Doug " Ose ( born June 27, 1955 in Sacramento, California ) is a former California congressman who served in the U. S. House of Representatives from 1999 to 2005, representing California's 3rd Congressional District.

A replica of the ride was built at California's Great America in Santa Clara, CA ; in 2005, however, a concrete island was added to the middle of the floor to promote one-way traffic, reducing the floor area and restoring Rue Le Dodge at Six Flags Great America's largest floor title.

In late 2004, in response to California's budgetary deficit, OCTA began a widening project to add one mixed-flow and one high occupancy vehicle lane to the route in each direction, as well as reconfiguringe and upgrading on and off ramps to contemporary standards at several interchanges, all funded by Measure M, the half-cent tax of Orange County, CA.

In California's Health Care Quality Report Card 2011 Edition by California's Office of the Patient Advocate, HealthNet ( CA ) received 2 out of 4 stars in Meeting National Standards of Care.

Clyde's first published works appeared as a series of articles entitled " Close Ups of the High Sierra " in 1928, in the Automobile Club of Southern California's magazine, Touring Topics, and were later republished as a perfect-bound edition in 1962 by La Siesta Press ( Glendale, CA ), edited by Walt Wheelock.

* Star Tower, California's Great America, San Jose, CA, USA

On December 29, 2009, the California Court of Appeal for the Sixth District ruled that California Code of Civil Procedure Section 367 cannot be read as imposing a federal-style standing doctrine on California's code pleading system of civil procedure.

By the end of the Civil War, California's population was around 1, 000.

California's Code of Civil Procedure § 425. 17 corrects what the Legislature found to be abuse of the anti-SLAPP statute.

The Duarte club filed suit in the California courts, claiming that Rotary Clubs are business establishments subject to regulation under California's Unruh Civil Rights Act, which bans discrimination based on race, gender, religion or ethnic origin.

Today, the barracks is open as a museum which commemorates California's contribution to the Civil War.

During 1959, he authored California's Unruh Civil Rights Act, which outlawed discrimination by businesses that offer services to the public, and was a model for later reforms enacted nationally during the 1960s and 1970s.

Low was California's last Civil War governor.

Asserting that Leykis's insults of Ingels ' age violated California's Unruh Civil Rights Act ( which prohibits individuals discrimination in business ), Ingels sued Westwood One and Tom Leykis in July 2003 for age discrimination.