He worked his way through college at the California Institute of Technology, playing banjo at nightclubs and taking odd jobs, which included working at the campus laundry facility, waiting tables, and cleaning engines at a local power plant.

Santa Anna agreed that, if given safe passage into Mexico, he would attempt to persuade those in power to sell California and New Mexico to the United States.

The world's largest geothermal power installation is the Geysers in California, with a rated capacity of 750 MW.

In the dream, Sonny uses his power as mayor of Palm Springs, California to have Waggoner falsely arrested just so he can have Dorothy to himself.

* April 3 – The world's first space nuclear power reactor, SNAP-10A, is launched by the United States from Vandenberg AFB, California.

The use of electricity alone to power boats stagnated apart from their outboard use as trolling motors until the Duffy Electric Boat Company of California started mass producing small electric craft in 1968.

Microwave broadcast power has been practically demonstrated several times ( e. g. Goldstone, California in 1974 ), rectennas are potentially lightweight and can handle high power at high conversion efficiency.

On 10 April 1942, after America's entry into World War II, Rickover flew to Pearl Harbor to organize repairs to the electrical power plant of the USS California.

Enron labeled one of the false companies used in its fraudulent manipulation of the California power grid " Death Star ".

NERC oversees eight regional reliability entities and encompasses all of the interconnected power systems of the contiguous United States, Canada and a portion of Baja California in Mexico.

In most, but not all states ( California and New York are significant exceptions ), the state supreme court or a related administrative body has the power to write the rules of procedure that govern the courts through a rule making process.

* Overload ( 1979 ) – power crisis in California

In 1952, Warren stood as a " favorite son " candidate of California for the Republican nomination for President, hoping to be a power broker in a convention that might be deadlocked.

As of July 2008, Nolan County generates more wind energy than the entire state of California, and would rank 6th in wind power generation among all nations if it were counted as its own nation.

On December 7, 2000, suffering from low supply and idled power plants, the California Independent System Operator ( ISO ), which manages the California power grid, declared the first statewide Stage 3 power alert, meaning power reserves were below 3 percent.

Located about half way on both the California and Oregon Trails many thousands of later travelers used Salt Lake City and other Utah cities as an intermediate stop for selling or trading excess goods or tired livestock for fresh livestock, repairs, supplies or fresh vegetables.

* Hilton D. Bell Intermediate School, a large intermediate school in the Garden Grove Unified School District in Garden Grove, California

Nixon considered nominating Arkansas lawyer Hershel Friday and California intermediate appellate judge Mildred Lillie to the high court.

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Police departments throughout the United States including the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department in California have come to believe that, when executed properly, PIT is an intermediate force option that can safely end a pursuit.

The California Earthquake Prediction Evaluation Council determined, " To date there is no evidence that these, or related methods, yield useful intermediate term forecasts.

Northwest Airlines Flight 255 was a flight that originated at Tri-City Airport in Saginaw, Michigan, and was scheduled to terminate at John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California, with intermediate stops at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport in Romulus, Michigan, near Detroit, and at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, Arizona.

Pinus quadrifolia frequently hybridises with Single-leaf Pinyon where their ranges meet in southern California and northern Baja California ; the hybrids are distinguished by intermediate features, with needles usually fascicles of 2 – 3 with some stomata on the outer surface.

The Oak Grove School District operates 16 elementary schools ( K-6 ) and three intermediate schools ( 7-8 unless otherwise noted ) in San Jose, California, USA.

In addition to notice pleading, a minority of states ( e. g., California ) use an intermediate system known as code pleading, which is a system older than notice pleading and which is based upon legislative statute.

* John Joseph Ford ( 1907 – 1982 ), American jurist who served on Los Angeles County Courts ( 1943 – 59 ) and California Second District Court of Appeal ( 1959 – 77 ); elevated to Presiding Justice in 1966

Plea bargains are so common in the Superior Courts of California ( the general trial courts ) that the Judicial Council of California has published an optional seven-page form ( containing all mandatory advisements required by federal and state law ) to help prosecutors and defense attorneys reduce such bargains into written plea agreements.

The Court has original jurisdiction in a variety of cases, including habeas corpus proceedings, and has the authority to review all the decisions of the California Courts of Appeal, as well as an automatic appeal for cases where the death penalty has been issued by the trial court.

The California Courts of Appeal were added to the judicial branch by a constitutional amendment in 1904.

Each of California's 58 counties has its own superior court, which adds up to a total of 58 Superior Courts of California.

When such a conflict arises, all Superior Courts have the discretion to choose which rule they like until the California Supreme Court grants review and creates a single rule that binds all courts statewide.

* California Courts official website

Implementation of the settlement was delayed pending appeal the California Appellate Courts.

In the United States, the United States district courts are the trial courts of general jurisdiction of the federal judiciary ; each U. S. state has a state court system establishing trial courts of general jurisdiction, such as the Florida Circuit Courts in Florida, the Superior Courts of California in California, and the New York Supreme Court in New York.

In California, all lower courts were absorbed into the Superior Courts of California after 1998.

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There is currently a conflict between the different districts of the California Courts of Appeal as to the availability of summary adjudication ; most superior courts tend to side with the narrowest interpretation of California Code of Civil Procedure section 437c, under which a party may make such a motion only with respect to an entire cause of action, an affirmative defense, or a punitive-damages claim.

There is also language in section 437c about " issues of duty ," but some Courts of Appeal panels have given that phrase an extremely narrow interpretation due to evidence that the California State Legislature has been trying to stop the state courts from engaging in the piecemeal adjudication of individual issues.

* Imperial Courts, Los Angeles, California, public housing

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The Attorney General of California concurs in this interpretation and has filed an appeal from these decisions to the District Court of Appeal.

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.

In February 2005, a California Court of Appeal unanimously upheld the original verdict.

Seven years later, on June 5, 1981, Little's conviction was overturned by the California Court of Appeal, and he was later acquitted in a retrial in Monterey County.

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

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.

The judge overturned the jury's verdict, a decision the California Court of Appeal affirmed in February 2006.

The California Court of Appeal, Third District, affirmed the judgment in December 2010.

An example of a Pinto rear-end accident that led to a lawsuit was the 1972 accident resulted in the court case Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Co., in which the California Court of Appeal for the Fourth Appellate District upheld compensatory damages of $ 2. 5 million and punitive damages of $ 3. 5 million against Ford, partially because Ford had been aware of the design defects before production but had decided against changing the design.

The courtroom is used by the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, California Supreme Court, and California Court of Appeal.

On February 15, 2011, the California Court of Appeal for the Second Appellate District affirmed the trial court's denial of Activision's special motion to strike No Doubt's lawsuit as a strategic lawsuit against public participation, after an interlocutory appeal by Activision.

City of Garden Grove v. Superior Court, a published California Court of Appeal decision ( which in California is binding on all courts ), upheld a decision of a trial court to " the Garden Grove Police Department to give Kha back his marijuana " stating " ecause the act is strictly a federal offense, the state has ' no power to punish ... ... as such.

The California Court of Appeal refused the appeal his attorneys filed on his behalf, ruling that as a fugitive from justice, Luster had flouted the court's authority and had thus forfeited his right to appeal.

* California Court of Appeal

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

Finally, he was appointed by California's governor George Pardee as the first presiding justice of the newly created California Third District Court of Appeal, a position he held until 1921.

A small memorial remains in the library of the California Third District Court of Appeal in Sacramento.