Floyd Bennett Field's most storied flight was probably that of Douglas " Wrong Way " Corrigan who, in 1938, after repeatedly being denied permission by the authorities to attempt a non-stop flight to Ireland, " accidentally " crossed the Atlantic in a second-hand surplus aircraft on a flight registered to go to California.

Seeking revenge, Terry attempted to kill Field in 1889 near Stockton, California but was instead shot dead by Justice Field's bodyguard, U. S. Marshal David Neagle.

For example, although Field's civil code was mostly rejected by his home state of New York, it was later adopted in large part by California, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota.

It is an accepted juridical principle in California that a Superior Court decision does not constitute a binding legal precedent.

" 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.

It took legal actions to force them to do so: in 1864 the Supreme Court of the State of California ordered them under Writs of Mandamus ( The People of the State of California ex rel the Central Pacific Railroad Company vs. Henry P. Coon, Mayor ; Henry M. Hale, Auditor ; and Joseph S. Paxson, Treasurer, of the City and County of San Francisco.

635 ) and in 1865, a legal judgment against Loewy ( The People ex rel The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California vs.

In October 1985, the California Supreme Court rejected Rosenthal's appeal of the multimillion-dollar judgment against him for legal malpractice, and upheld conclusions of a trial court and a Court of Appeal that Rosenthal acted improperly.

The Supreme Court of California, in affirming the disbarment, held that Rosenthal engaged in transactions involving undisclosed conflicts of interest, took positions adverse to his former clients, overstated expenses, double-billed for legal fees, failed to return client files, failed to provide access to records, failed to give adequate legal advice, failed to provide clients with an opportunity to obtain independent counsel, filed fraudulent claims, gave false testimony, engaged in conduct designed to harass his clients, delayed court proceedings, obstructed justice and abused legal process.

Erin Brockovich-Ellis ( born June 22, 1960 ) is an American legal clerk and environmental activist who, despite the lack of a formal law school education, or any legal education, was instrumental in constructing a case against the Pacific Gas and Electric Company ( PG & E ) of California in 1993.

The modern legal definition of " assault rifle " is of significance in states like California, where according to state law, certain weapons that cosmetically resemble true assault rifles, but are only capable of semi-automatic ( or autoloading ), are categorized as " assault weapons " and are illegal to purchase or own by civilian residents of the state, even after a less restrictive ban by the federal government was allowed to lapse after having no impact on these weapons ' use in crime.

Working with his brother Thomas ( also a Stanford graduate and a lawyer ), Crothers identified and corrected numerous major legal defects in the terms of the university's founding grant and successfully lobbied for an amendment to the California state constitution granting Stanford an exemption from taxation on its educational property — a change which allowed Jane Stanford to donate her stock holdings to the university.

The trial escalated the political and legal conflict between strict creationists and scientists to influence the extent to which evolution would be taught as science in Arizona and California schools.

Medical marijuana was explicitly made legal under California state law by Proposition 215 ; however, marijuana is prohibited at the federal level by the Controlled Substances Act.

Bono's legal transition was completed on May 8, 2010, when a California court granted his request for a gender and name change.

She was interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California next to her second husband Adrian, but her stone reads " Janet Gaynor Gregory ," her legal name after her marriage to her third husband, producer and director Paul Gregory.

anarchist conference in Berkeley, California, Black presented a workshop where he argued that, in society as it is, crime can be an anarchist method of social control, especially for people systematically disserved by the legal system.

By way of confiscation of the missions between 1834 and 1838 the approximately 15, 000 resident neophytes lost the protection of the mission system, along with their stock and other movable property ; by the transfer of California to the United States, they were left without legal title to their land.

In 1992, he guest-starred in an episode of the legal drama L. A. Law, as a Homer Simpson meetable character at a California amusement park who is dismissed for inappropriate behavior while in costume.

* In 1884, the Legislature of California passed a concurrent resolution making August 29 of that year, the centennial of Father Serra's burial, a legal holiday.

Initiatives can be proposed by the governor, legislature, or by popular petition, giving California one of the most flexible legal systems in the world.

Although New York and Texas each technically have more judicial officers than California, a large number of them are not attorneys and have no formal legal training.

The Supreme Court supervises the lower courts through the Judicial Council of California, and also supervises California's legal profession through the State Bar of California.

* California Penal Code Section 158: " Common barratry is the practice of exciting groundless judicial proceedings, and is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months and by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($ 1, 000 ).

After weeks of practice, Berry, Ginsburg, and Torrence planned to record a demo recording in Berry's garage, but Torrance was conscripted into the United States Army Reserve forcing Berry and Ginsburg to record " Jennie Lee " without Torrence, with Berry's friend and fellow University High student Donald J. Altfeld ( born March 18, 1940 in Los Angeles, California ) " belting out the rhythm on a children's metal high chair ".

Several cases in California seem to have halted the practice in that state — the courts have allowed individual churches to leave the PC ( USA ) and keep their own assets, as well as parishes of the United Methodist and Episcopal denominations.

In February 2005, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled in Johnson v. California that the California Department of Corrections ' unwritten practice of racially segregating prisoners in its prison reception centers – which California claimed was for inmate safety ( gangs in California, as throughout the U. S., usually organize on racial lines )— is to be subject to strict scrutiny, the highest level of constitutional review.

It also houses the UCSF neurology outpatient practice that serves as a referral center of most of Northern California and Reno, Nevada.

Some opened the first health food stores, and many moved to Southern California where they could practice an alternative lifestyle in a warm climate.

In 1946, Dr. C. Hunter Shelden had opened a neurological practice at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, California.

He left Rohr to enter private law practice in San Diego County, California.

The judicial system of California is the largest in the United States that is fully staffed by professional law-trained judges ; a person must be admitted to practice law before they can become a judge in California.

Initially unable to play his bass, he rebuilt his strength with intense woodshedding and practice as well as live club gigs where he performed sets of Stooges covers with Hellride in California and with J Mascis and Dinosaur Jr. drummer Murph in New York under the name Hellride East.

A lawsuit brought forth by the State of California in 1973 requested that Mind Dynamics be barred from what California referred to as its unlawful practice of Medicine.

In California, for example, bar certification is offered in family law, appellate practice, criminal law, bankruptcy, estate planning, immigration, taxation and workers ' compensation.

Other graduates that distinguished themselves in legal academia and practice are university presidents Mark Yudof ( President of the University of California system ), John Frederick Zeller III ( President of Bucknell University ) and Rodney K. Smith ( President of Southern Virginia University ), Robert Butkin ( Dean of the University of Tulsa College of Law ), William Schnader ( drafter of the Uniform Commercial Code ), William Draper Lewis ( founder of the American Law Institute and Dean of Penn Law ), Henry Martyn Hoyt, Jr. ( Solicitor General of the United States ), E. Grey Lewis ( General Counsel of the U. S. Navy ), Bernard Wolfman ( Fessenden Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard Law School ), Jonathan Z. Cannon ( Blaine T. Phillips Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law at the University of Virginia School of Law and Deputy Administrator of the EPA ).

The practice swept throughout much of the Western United States, quickly reaching areas of California and Oklahoma.

A few states once staged a blanket primary, in which voters could vote for one candidate in multiple primaries, but the practice was struck down by the U. S. Supreme Court in the 2000 case of California Democratic Party v. Jones as violating the freedom of assembly guaranteed by the First Amendment.

After graduating from high school, Branden went on to earn his BA in psychology from the University of California Los Angeles, an MA from New York University, and in 1973, a Ph. D. in psychology from the California Graduate Institute ( CGI ), then an unaccredited, state-approved school whose graduates may be licensed by the state to practice psychology.

Including its longest tributary ( the Ocmulgee River ) in length calculations as is standard USGS practice, its length of 470 miles places it seventh on the list of U. S. rivers entirely within one state, behind only four Alaskan rivers, the Sacramento-Pit River in California, and the Trinity River in Texas.

Country Joe continued to tour and practice with other California based bands.

Melton studied law while on the road as a musician and was admitted to practice by the State Bar of California in 1982.