In his CDC work, Carvey has the close-in support and advice of one of California's shrewdest political strategists: former Democratic National Committeeman Paul Ziffren, who backed him over a Northland candidate espoused by Atty. Gen. Stanley Mosk.

* 2010 – California's Proposition 8, the ballot initiative prohibiting same-sex marriage passed by the state's voters in 2008, is overturned by Judge Vaughn Walker in the case Perry v. Schwarzenegger.

The College of California's College Homestead Association planned to raise funds for the new campus by selling off parcels of land adjacent to it.

* 1904 – The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.

For example, California's insured population of 20 million is the most competitive in the nation and 44 % of that market is dominated by two insurance companies, Anthem and Kaiser Permanente.

These parks include Paramount's Great America, now acquired by Cedar Fair Entertainment Company and renamed to California's Great America, Canada's Wonderland, Carowinds, Kings Dominion, And Kings Island.

Led by Dead Kennedys, a U. S. anarcho-punk scene developed around such bands as Austin's MDC and Southern California's Another Destructive System.

In the United States, varieties of cowpunk played by bands such as Nashville's Jason & the Scorchers, Arizona's Meat Puppets, and Southern California's Social Distortion had a similar effect.

A 2012 book by Marcus Ruiz Evans entitled California's Next Century details an overhauling of California's statehood via a plan to embrace its unique global role and form itself as an independent republic, uniquely poised to become the Switzerland of the 21st century, a global nerve center of international diplomacy, technology and finance.

Limbaugh's unprecedented success is illustrated by Fresno, California's then number-one radio station, KMJ " news-talk radio ," a typical example of how the talk radio format was changed nation wide.

* October 6 – Southern California's Pacific Ocean Park closes down, known as the Disneyland by the sea.

She was named 1954 Alumna of the Year by the University of California's alumni association.

The idea of a fast mail route to the Pacific coast was prompted largely by California's new found prominence and its rapidly growing population.

There was a period in the mid 1960's when U. S. Forest Service policy in California's National Forests for the California black oak was systematic extermination by girdling the trees.

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.

In November and December 1818, several of the missions were attacked by Hipólito Bouchard, " California's only pirate.

California's geography is largely defined by its central feature — the Central Valley, a huge, fertile valley between the coastal mountain ranges and the Sierra Nevada.

Though it has been largely eclipsed by California's production, the area still produces significant quantities of tomatoes, green beans, corn, soy beans — Queen Anne's County is the largest producer of soy beans in Maryland — and other popular vegetables.

The highway was built by the Mexican government to improve Baja California's economy and increase tourism.

Tribes living in the mountains of the north and east relied heavily on salmon and game hunting, and used California's volcanic legacy by collecting and shaping obsidian for themselves and for trade.

California's executive branch is headed by the Governor.

Bono was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1994 to represent California's 44th congressional district.

For example, in the United States, California's Oakland ( KOAK ), Monterey ( KMRY ) and Santa Ana ( KSNA ) airports routinely grant temporary IFR clearance when a low coastal overcast forces instrument approaches, while the rest of the state is still under visual flight rules.

The park is also Southern California's quarantine center for zoo animals imported into the United States through San Diego.

Notable psychedelic festivals include the biennial Boom Festival in Portugal, as well as Nevada's Burning Man and California's Symbiosis Gathering in the United States.

On December 14, 1818, the French privateer Hipólito Bouchard, sailing under the flag of the " United Provinces of Rio de la Plata " ( Argentina ), brought his ships La Argentina and Santa Rosa to within sight of the Mission ; aware that Bouchard ( today known as " California's only pirate ") had recently conducted raids on the settlements at Monterey and Santa Barbara, Comandante Ruíz had sent forth a party of thirty men ( under the leadership of a young Spanish lieutenant named Santiago Argüello ) to protect the Mission at first news of the approach on the 13th.

He has also been active with the Democratic Party of the United States, twice running for the nomination of his party for the U. S. House of Representatives — once from New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district in 1984 and from California's 24th congressional district in 2008.

California's World Fair in 1939-the Golden Gate International Exposition celebrated for the first time Polynesian culture in the United States.

With respect to the United States House of Representatives, Cotati is part of California's 6th congressional district.

In the United States House of Representatives, Rohnert Park is part of California's 6th congressional district.

It chiefly supplied the expeditions of European and United States settlers bound for Oregon and later, California's Gold Rush.

During Norman's first trip to the United States in 1976, when he was chosen to represent Australia in the World Cup of Golf in Palm Springs, he soaked up as much of the culture as he could, including trying California's wines.

The United States has increasingly become a major Pinot noir producer, with some of the best regarded coming from the Willamette Valley in Oregon and California's Sonoma County with its Russian River Valley and Sonoma Coast appellations.

California's comprehensive domestic partner policy was the first same-sex couples policy in the United States created by a legislature without court intervention.

As California's European, Asian and African population increased in the 19th century, the state became the earliest West Coast territory admitted to the United States.

Cases include Perry v. Brown, which challenges the validity of California's Proposition 8 under the United States Constitution Sevcik v. Sandoval, which challenges Nevada's system of marriage for different-sex couples and domestic partnerships for same-sex couples under the equal protection clause.

Notably, the Supreme Court of the United States sharply disagreed with California's analysis of the Fourteenth Amendment in the landmark case of North v. Russell,, in which the Court held that Kentucky's use of nonlawyer judges in its police courts was not a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees of due process and equal protection of the laws.

McClintock lost his bid to incumbent Anthony C. Beilenson for a seat in the United States House of Representatives representing California's 24th District.

California's Anti-Coolie Act of 1862 and the federal Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 contributed to the curtailment of Chinese immigration to the United States.

Unlike his son, Jerry, Pat Brown never seriously ran for President of the United States, but he frequently was California's " favorite son.

After airline deregulation California's major intrastate airlines ( PSA, Air California ( later rebranded AirCal ), Western Airlines and United Airlines ) became embroiled in intense airfare wars.

Thomas John " Tom " Campbell ( born August 14, 1952 ) is the Dean of Chapman University School of Law, a former five-term Republican United States Congressman from California's 12th and 15th districts, a former professor at Stanford Law School, a former dean of the Haas School of Business, and a former professor of business administration at the University of California, Berkeley.

She was elected to the United States House of Representatives from California's 14th congressional district as a liberal Democrat in 1944, and served three full terms as " a principled advocate of women's rights, civil liberties and world disarmament.

The suit claims that the prisoners " have been incarcerated California ’ s Pelican Bay State Prison's Security Housing Unit (" SHU ") for an unconscionably long period of time without meaningful review of their placement ", that " California's uniquely harsh regime of prolonged solitary confinement at Pelican Bay is inhumane and debilitating ", and that " he solitary confinement regime at Pelican Bay ... violates the United States Constitution's requirement of due process and prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment ".