Since 1953 California has led the nation in enacting guarantees that public business shall be publicly conducted, but not until this year did the lawmakers in Sacramento plug the remaining loopholes in the Brown Act.

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.

Rather than using a grip car and single trailer, as many cities did, or combining the grip and trailer into a single car, like San Francisco's California Cars, Chicago used grip cars to pull trains of up to three trailers.

" There have also been other politicians who did not view the way that Doonesbury portrayed them very favorably, including former U. S. House Speaker Tip O ' Neill and former / current California Governor Jerry Brown.

The Cadillac hearse is now privately owned in central California and is preserved, looking essentially identical to the way it did in the film.

They did such a precise job that the construction crew didn't notice until after they had laid the foundation ( and after the prank team informed someone on the project about the shifted stakes ), but California earthquake law forced them to re-survey the site and bring in engineering consultation.

After the Texas annexation, Polk turned his attention to California, hoping to acquire the territory from Mexico before any European nation did so.

Upon arriving in San Diego, California, Mihdhar and Hazmi were to train as pilots, but spoke English poorly and did not do well with flight lessons.

He did a year of graduate work in mathematics at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Mihdhar returned to Yemen, which angered Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who did not want Hazmi to be left alone in California.

In 1982, Stanley B. Prusiner of the University of California, San Francisco announced that his team had purified the hypothetical infectious prion, and that the infectious agent consisted mainly of a specific protein – though they did not manage to isolate the protein until two years after Prusiner's announcement.

Bono attended Inglewood High School in Inglewood, California, but did not graduate.

At the time, UHF stations did well only in markets without VHF stations, like Fresno, California, or in markets with only one station on VHF.

But Pennsylvania was Roosevelt's only eastern state ; in the Midwest, he carried Michigan, Minnesota and South Dakota ; in the West, California and Washington ; he did not win any southern states.

" In a 5 – 4 decision, the Court, relying on Stromberg v. California,, found that because the provision of the New York law criminalizing " words " against the flag was unconstitutional, and the trial did not sufficiently demonstrate that he was convicted solely under the provisions not yet deemed unconstitutional, the conviction was unconstitutional.

In Martinez v. Court of Appeal of California,, the Supreme Court ruled the right to pro se representation did not apply to appellate courts.

In Robinson v. California,, the Court ruled that it did apply to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment.

Many credit Gretzky's arrival with putting non-traditional U. S. hockey markets on " the NHL map "; not only did California receive two more NHL franchises ( the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and San Jose Sharks ) during Gretzky's tenure in L. A., but his popularity in Southern California proved to be an impetus in the league establishing teams in other parts of the U. S. Sun Belt.

On 2 April 1982, a Friday night, XTC were scheduled to play at the Palladium in Hollywood, California, but did not appear.

Although Jolitz worked briefly for UUNET ( which later spun out BSDi ) in 1991, the work he did for them diverged from that contributed to the University of California and did not appear in 386BSD.

R. H. Campbell did a study on shallow landslides on Santa Cruz Island California.

David Prescott Barrows, the new President of the University of California, did not share Wheeler's objections.

Until the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, University of California president Robert Sproul did not know what the purpose of the laboratory was and thought it might be producing a " death ray ".

* 7 — Voters repeal gay rights ordinances in the U. S. cities of Athens, Ohio, Tacoma, Washington, and Irvine and Concord, California.

* 3 — Voters in San Jose and Santa Clara County, California vote to repeal the city and county gay rights ordiinances.

During the 2011-2012 academic year, he sent campus wide messages in support of the California Dream Act, which allows undocumented students to qualify for financial aid, the reform of Proposition 13, which would close corporate property tax loopholes passed by voters in the late 1970s and reallocate that funding to social services, including higher education, and the repeal of Proposition 209, which would reenact affirmative action and significantly increase diversity in the nation's public higher education institutions.

The repeal was signed into law by California Governor Jerry Brown.

Agnos also led an effort to combat predatory lending aimed at minority homeowners and to repeal “ racial covenants ” barring non-whites from living or staying overnight in many California communities.

In 1946, the JACL embarked on a hard-fought campaign to repeal California's Alien Land Law, which, enacted in the early years of the 20th century, prohibited all Japanese aliens ( i. e. immigrants ) from purchasing and owning land in the state, one of the most discriminatory statutes enacted in California against Japanese Americans.

Around 20, 000 patients in California State psychiatric hospital were sterilized with minimal or non-existent consent given between 1909 and 1950, when the law went into general disuse before its repeal in the 1960s.

Regardless, four separate groups began petition drives to amend the California Constitution to prevent same-sex marriage and repeal domestic-partnership rights.

The amendment eliminates the right of same-sex couples to marry, but does not repeal any rights granted to domestic partnerships and registration for domestic partnerships remains legal in California.

Cruess's research also proved beneficial in the rebirth of the wine industry in California after the repeal of Prohibition in 1933.

Readers of the Reader's Digest are familiar with such items which often appear in its lists of verbal slips, like the ad in a California paper that advertised `` House for rent.

Pleasure boating is just scooting into its best months in California as crisp breezes bring out craft of every size on every kind of water -- ocean, lake and reservoir.

Because of its classical Greco-Roman style, the ruins of Mission San Juan Capistrano's Great Stone Church in California, United States has been called the " American Acropolis ".

The current southern border of British Columbia was established by the 1846 Oregon Treaty, although its history is tied with lands as far south as California.

In the Fall of 2011, the nationwide Occupy Wall Street movement made its appearance at two locales in Berkeley: on the campus of the University of California and as an encampment in Civic Center Park.

In January 1957, the team left its winter training facility at Naval Air Facility El Centro, California for a ten year period.

Caltech's mascot is the Beaver, and its teams ( with the exception of the fencing team ) play in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, which Caltech co-founded in 1915.

Clippers sailed all over the world, primarily on the trade routes between the United Kingdom and its colonies in the east, in trans-Atlantic trade, and the New York-to-San Francisco route round Cape Horn during the California Gold Rush.

" 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.

Concerning its domestic borders, the 1803 Louisiana Purchase doubled the nation's geographical area ; Spain ceded the territory of Florida in 1819 ; annexation brought Texas in 1845 ; a war with Mexico in 1848 added California, Arizona and New Mexico.

On August 7, 1912, the Department broke ground on its first construction project, the section of El Camino Real between South San Francisco and Burlingame ( now part of California State Route 82 ).

* Fontenrose, Joseph Eddy, The Delphic oracle, its responses and operations, with a catalogue of responses, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.

Humble Oil continued to expand its West Coast operations, adding California to its marketing territory, building a large number of new Enco stations and rebranding others.

In 1966, the U. S. Justice Department ordered Humble Oil to " cease and desist " from using the Esso brand at stations in several southeastern states, following protests from Standard Oil of Kentucky ( Kyso ), which was a Standard of California subsidiary in the process of rebranding its Standard stations to Chevron.

Up to 1913, most American film production was still carried out around New York, but because of the monopoly of Thomas Edison's film patents, many filmmakers had moved to Southern California, hoping to escape the litany of lawsuits that the Edison Company had been bringing to protect its monopoly.

The American industry, or " Hollywood ", as it was becoming known after its new geographical center in California, gained the position it has held, more or less, ever since: film factory for the world, exporting its product to most countries on earth and controlling the market in many of them.

* 1873 – The University of California opens its first medical school in San Francisco, California.

This was the first of 11 winters from 1855 through 1865 known as the " bonanza period ", during which gray whaling along the coast of Baja California reached its peak.

The California Institute of Technology, another school known for its strength in the natural sciences and engineering, is located 26 miles away from Harvey Mudd College.

* Built in Scotland and completed in 1936, The former ocean liner in Long Beach, California, United States uses its first-class staterooms as a hotel, after retiring in 1967 from Transatlantic service.

* University of California, Berkeley offers a graduate degree in HST through its History program, and maintains a separate sub-department for the field.

* University of California, Los Angeles has a relatively large group History of Science and Medicine faculty and graduate students within its History department, and also offers an undergraduate minor in the History of Science.