( Most notably, in the case Li v. Yellow Cab Co., 13 Cal. 3d 804 ( 1975 ), the California Supreme Court adopted the principle of comparative negligence in the face of a California Civil Code provision codifying the traditional common-law doctrine of contributory negligence.

* Anders v. California

* 1972 – The California Supreme Court in the case of People v. Anderson, 6 Cal. 3d 628 invalidates the state's death penalty and commutes the sentences of all death row inmates to life imprisonment.

* 1973 – In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller Test for obscenity in U. S. law.

California v. Prysock,.

Griffin v. California,.

In California, a nolo contendere plea is known as a West plea after a seminal case involving plea bargains, People v. West ( 1970 ) 3 Cal. 3d 595.

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.

" Faretta v. California, 422 U. S. 806, 821-22 ( 1975 ).

The Miller test was developed in the 1973 case Miller v. California.

In United States of America v. Extreme Associates a pornography distributor from North Hollywood, California, was judged to be held accountable to the community standards applying in western Pennsylvania, where the Third Circuit made its ruling, because the materials were available via Internet in that area.

Though the Court upheld a law prohibiting the forgery, mutilation, or destruction of draft cards in United States v. O ' Brien,, fearing that burning draft cards would interfere with the " smooth and efficient functioning " of the draft system, the next year, the court handed down its decision in Brandenburg v. Ohio,, expressly overruling Whitney v. California, ( a case in which a woman was imprisoned for aiding the Communist Party ).

In Cohen v. California,, wearing a jacket reading " Fuck the Draft " in the corridors of the Los Angeles County courthouse was ruled not to be punishable.

In Talley v. California,, the Court struck down a Los Angeles city ordinance that made it a crime to distribute anonymous pamphlets.

" 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.

The Roth test was expanded when the Court decided Miller v. California,.

However, that rule was modified by Brendlin v. California,, in which the Court ruled that all occupants of a car are " seized " for purposes of the Fourth Amendment during a traffic stop, not just the driver.

In deciding Chimel v. California,, the Supreme Court elucidated its previous decisions.

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.

We may take her with us -- to California.

But California is where we're goin ''.

`` California ''.

`` It will grow again -- in California ''.

California is too far, he thought.

He would never reach California.

He recalled that in California after a critic had attacked him for `` still trying to sell Bruckner to the Americans '', the public's response at the next concert was a standing ovation.

Undoubtedly even the old Southern stalwart Richmond has felt the new wind: William Styron mentions in his latest novel an avenue named for Bankhead McGruder, a Civil War general, now renamed, in typical California fashion, `` Buena Vista Terrace ''.

From her California headquarters, Miriam fired back, `` I shall never divorce Mr. Wright, to permit him to marry Olga Milanoff ''.

When Harold Arlen returned to California in the winter of 1944, it was to take up again a collaboration with Johnny Mercer, begun some years before.

Hearst's luck was even poorer when he had a chat with Franklin K. Lane, a prominent California journalist and reform politician, whom he asked for his support.

Lane was still burning because he had narrowly missed election as governor of California in 1902 and laid his defeat to the antagonism of Hearst's San Francisco Examiner.

Hearst saw his wife and child, sent a joyful message to his mother in California, and soon returned to Washington, where on April 22, for the first time, he opened his mouth in Congress.

In addition, the 1952 study collected comparable data from 4,585 students at ten other colleges and universities scattered across the country: Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, Wesleyan, North Carolina, Fisk, Texas, University of California at Los Angeles, Wayne, and Michigan.

According to The Chicago Tribune News Service, State Atty. Gen. Stanley Mosk of California has devised a series of questions which the joiner might well ask about any organization seeking his money and his name: 1.

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.

Since moving from a Chicago suburb to Southern California a few months ago, I've been introduced to a new game called Lanesmanship.

The really remarkable thing to me is that most California natives unhesitatingly elect to slow down and permit the invading car free access.

This negative explanation of courtesy on the freeways, however, does an injustice to Southern California drivers.

California Democrats this weekend will take the wraps off a 1962 model statewide campaign vehicle which they have been quietly assembling in a thousand district headquarters, party clubrooms and workers' backyards.

Their meeting at San Francisco is nominally scheduled as a conference of the California Democratic Council directorate.

I would like to see you devote some space in an early issue to the news blackout concerning President Kennedy's activities, so far as Southern California is concerned.

Southern California gasped and blinked under an autumn hot spell, drier, more enervating, more laden with man's contrived impurities than the worst days of the summer past.

New York led in the number of inquiries, followed by California, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania.

In sixteen states, the fiscal year ending of the cities ( June 30 ) is the same as that of the state: Alaska, Arizona, California, Delaware, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming, and Hawaii ).