He was approved for a try-out which entailed a move to Los Angeles, California.

While Compaq shareholders unanimously approved the deal, there was a public proxy battle within HP as the deal was strongly opposed by numerous large HP shareholders, including the sons of the company founders, Walter Hewlett and David W. Packard, as well as the California Public Employees ’ Retirement System ( Calpers ) and the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan.

: Although there are no universal standards for the design or testing of trigger locks, some jurisdictions, such as the state of California, maintain a list of approved trigger lock devices.

California effected regulations in 2000 that forced gun locks to be approved by a firearm safety device laboratory via California Penal Code Section 12088.

All gun locks under this code must receive extensive tests including saw, pick, pull, and many other tests in order to be approved for the state of California.

If a lock passes the requirements then it is said to be California Department of Justice ( CADOJ ) approved.

In August 2012, the California State Assembly approved a bill to prohibit children and teenagers from undergoing conversion therapy, which Governor Jerry Brown signed into law on September 29, 2012.

The California Coastal Conservancy approved funding in March 2011 to begin implementation of the water trail.

The treaty was drafted in English and Spanish by José Antonio Carrillo, approved by American Lieutenant-Colonel John C. Frémont and Mexican Governor Andrés Pico on January 13, 1847 at Campo de Cahuenga in what is now North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.

The program is funded primarily through bond measures approved by voters in 2001, 2003, and 2008, plus additional funding from the State of California.

* California's application for admission as a free state with its current boundaries was approved and a Southern proposal to split California at parallel 35 ° north to provide a Southern territory was not approved.

The last attempt, the Pico Act of 1859, was passed by the California State Legislature, signed by the State governor, approved overwhelmingly by voters in the proposed Territory of Colorado and sent to Washington D. C. with a strong advocate in Senator Milton Latham.

In some states, provinces, municipalities, and jurisdictions, such as Ontario, Canada and Santa Barbara, California, all designs for public space must be reviewed and approved by licensed landscape architects.

Credential programs are approved by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing ( CCTC ).

The California Desert Trial Academy School of Law was approved by the California State Bar as an unaccredited fixed facility law school in Indio and is expected to open for classes in September 2012.

The University of California Davis School of Law ( Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall ), referred to as UC Davis School of Law and commonly known as King Hall and UC Davis Law, is an American Bar Association approved law school located in Davis, California on the campus of the University of California, Davis.

Funding for two years has been provided by the California Community College Office of Economic and Workforce Development and a preliminary application for additional support has been approved by the National Science Foundation.

In 1928, San Clemente, California was incorporated by Ole Hanson who designated that all buildings must be approved by an architectural review board in order to retain control over development and building style.

The proposition was a state-wide voter initiative authored by Dennis Peron, Anna Boyce RN, Valerie Corral, Dale Gieringer, Thomas Seiler, William Panzer, Scott Imler, and psychiatrist Tod H. Mikuriya, and approved by California voters.

Union Oil Co. of California Tuesday offered $120 million in debentures to the public through a group of underwriters headed by Dillon, Read & Co., to raise money to retire a similar amount held by Gulf Oil Corp..

The reason for the enactment of the codes in California in the 19th century was to replace a pre-existing system based on Spanish civil law with a system based on common law, similar to that in most other states.

" Freedom of contract is a qualified and not an absolute right ...," Hughes declared in upholding an Iowa law that voided contracts limiting the legal rights of railroad workers: The state may " interfere where the parties do not stand upon an equality ...." Using similar reasoning, the associate justice upheld a California law that mandated a forty-eight-hour work-week for women in various industries and allowed a federal statute to override a contract between an interstate railroad and its employees.

The grinding action of these two plates creates a fault ( similar to the San Andreas fault in California ) that runs the length of the valley of the Rio Motagua in Guatemala.

Northern California freestyle, mainly from San Francisco and San Jose, leans towards a high-tempo dance beat similar to Hi-NRG.

In 1977, Falwell supported Anita Bryant's campaign, which was called by its proponents " Save Our Children ", to overturn an ordinance in Dade County, Florida prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, and he supported a similar movement in California.

Falwell supported Anita Bryant's 1977 " Save Our Children " campaign to overturn a Florida ordinance prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and a similar movement in California.

Prominent examples in the US include the so-called Little Three, Colby-Bates-Bowdoin, and Little Ivy colleges in New England, the surviving, predominantly female Seven Sisters colleges along the northeastern seaboard, and the Claremont Colleges in Southern California, but similar institutions are found all over the country.

Included in the team's claims were claims that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers ' pirate logo diluted the team's California trademark in its own pirate logo and for trade dress dilution on the ground that the League had improperly permitted other teams ( including the Buccaneers and Carolina Panthers ) to adopt colors for their uniforms similar to those of the Raiders.

In early August 2007, Disney began offering a similar guided tour in its Disney California Adventure Park park in California.

"; the similar Bob Grant in New York City ; and Wally George in Southern California.

* To All Who These Presents Shall Come, Greeting: Know Ye, that in consequence of propositions of peace, or cessation of hostilities, being submitted to me, as Commandant of the California Battalion of the United States forces, which have so far been acceded to by me as to cause me to appoint a board of commissioners to confer with a similar board appointed by the Californians, and it requiring a little time to close the negotiations ; it is agreed upon and ordered by me that an entire cessation of hostilities shall take place until to-morrow afternoon ( January 13 ), and that the said Californians be permitted to bring in their wounded to the mission of San Fernando, where, also, if they choose, they can move their camp to facilitate said negotiations.

Similarly, in Samson v. California,, the Court ruled that government offices may be searched for evidence of work-related misconduct by government employees on similar grounds.

Many factors, including the success of brands like Lindemans ( part of Foster's Group ) and Jacob's Creek in the UK, as well as Rosemount in the US and UK, were responsible for a dramatic expansion of plantings during the 1980s and 1990s ; a similar trajectory occurred in California.

* Ivy and Sairy Wilson – Kansas folks in a similar predicament, who help attend the death of Grampa and subsequently share the traveling with the Joads as far as the California state line.

Since these are considered PDO, they refer not just to styles of brandy but brandies from a specific region, i. e. a brandy made in California in a manner identical to the method used to make Cognac and which tastes similar to Cognac, cannot be called Cognac in places that restrict the use of that term to products made in the Cognac region of France ( such places include Europe, the United States and Canada ).

Because of its beauty and ease of growing, the California poppy was introduced into several regions with similar Mediterranean climates.

Since Chile and California have similar climatic regions and have experienced much agricultural exchange, it is perhaps not surprising that it was introduced to Chile.

A similar study on Santa Catalina Island, California reported a mean litter size of 5.

Some resin distilleries in California exploded because they mistook Jeffrey Pine for the similar but terpene-producing Ponderosa Pine.

( Baja California experienced a similar reduction in native population resulting from Spanish colonization efforts there ).

The independence uprising was the first of a dozen similar incidents that took place in Alta California during the Mission Period ; however, most rebellions tended to be localized and short-lived due to the Spaniards ' superior weaponry ( native resistance more often took the form of non-cooperation ( in forced labor ), return to their homelands ( desertion of forced relocation ), and raids on mission livestock ).

The territorial and mating system of the California sea lion has been described as similar to a lek system, as females appear to choose their mates while moving though different territories.