Stanford is the beneficiary of a special clause in the California Constitution, which explicitly exempts Stanford property from taxation so long as the property is used for educational purposes.

Erwin Chemerinsky, professor and dean at University of California, Irvine School of Law, has argued that not even in a " dire financial emergency " could the President raise the debt ceiling as " there is no reasonable way to interpret the Constitution that him to do so ".

California and Oregon both opposed the measure out of fear of Chinese immigrants, New York initially ratified the amendment, but legislators later attempted to rescind the ratification, a controversial decision that might have resulted in a court challenge, but for the fact that on March 30, 1870, enough states had ratified the amendment for it to become part of the Constitution.

The University of California is governed by the Regents of the University of California, as required by the current Constitution of the State of California.

The American Independent Party of California has been an affiliate of the Constitution Party since its founding ; however, current party leadership is disputed and the issue is in court to resolve this conflict.

White supremacist, Christian Identity theorist and Posse Comitatus founder William Potter Gale was California " state chairman of the Constitution Party " in 1957.

* November 13 – The Constitution of California is ratified in a general election.

A change to the California Constitution has also been proposed that would allow the use of State funds in restoration efforts.

An excellent example is the case of Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins, in which " free speech " rights beyond those required by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution were found in the California Constitution by the California courts.

Hanford is incorporated as a general law city under the California Constitution.

Laguna Beach was one of only four cities in Orange County to vote against Proposition 8, which amended the California Constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage, and did so with an overwhelming 68 % of its vote.

Under the California State Constitution, there is a difference in powers granted to cities.

Even the taking of professional sports team's franchise has been held by the California Supreme Court to be within the purview of the " public use " constitutional limitation, although eventually, that taking was not permitted because it was deemed to violate the interstate commerce clause of the U. S. Constitution.

Voted on by California Nov. 4, 2008, it amended the California Constitution to provide that " Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.

The Quebec law is substantially different in structure than that of California or other jurisdictions, however as Quebec's Constitution generally subordinates itself to international law, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights applies.

That the provisions of the Constitution and laws of California in respect to the assessment for taxation of the property of railway corporations operating railroads in more than one county, are in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution insofar as they require the assessment of their property at its full money value without making deduction, as in the case of railroads operated in one county and of other corporations and of natural persons, for the value of the mortgages covering the property assessed, thus imposing upon the defendant unequal burdens, and to that extent denying to it the equal protection of the laws.

In the 1948 case of Perez v. Sharp, Andrea Perez — a Mexican-American woman listed as White — and Sylvester Davis — an African American man — the Supreme Court of California recognized that interracial bans on marriage violated the Fourteenth Amendment of the Federal Constitution.

They used a 60-inch cyclotron at the University of California, Berkeley.

Also in California, lead-free materials must be used for " each component that comes into contact with the wetted surface of pipes and pipe fittings, plumbing fittings and fixtures.

They used the 60-inch cyclotron at the University of California, Berkeley.

* Babe Ruth Field is a ballpark in Ventura, California, that was located at the Ventura County Fairgrounds and was used as a minor-league park from 1948 to 1955.

The Catalina Casino, a famous landmark overlooking Avalon Harbor on Santa Catalina Island, California, has never been used for traditional games of chance, which were already outlawed in California by the time it was built.

Ball used to tell Steinmetz stories to the Southern California Mystery Writers Association meetings.

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.

The name East Coast Swing was coined initially to distinguish the dance from the street form and the new variant used in the competitive ballroom arena ( as well as separating the dance from West Coast Swing, which was developed in California ).

Once Selig had taken up production in California, they used the ( fairly ) wild animals from the zoo that Colonel Selig had set up there in a series of exotic adventures, with the actors being menaced or saved by the animals.

Commonly, a time horizon of 100 years is used by regulators ( e. g., the California Air Resources Board ).

In 2007, S. Elizabeth Alter used a genetic approach to estimate prewhaling abundance based on samples from 42 California gray whales, and reported DNA variability at 10 genetic loci consistent with a population size of 76, 000 – 118, 000 individuals, three to five times larger than the average census size as measured through 2007.

Natural oil seeps such as this in the McKittrick area of California were used by the native Americans and later mined by settlers.

Native Americans had known of the tar seeps in southern California for thousands of years, and used the tar to waterproof their canoes.

It later evolved into hydraulic mining when used during the California gold rush.

In 1929, William Frederick Gericke of the University of California at Berkeley began publicly promoting that solution culture be used for agricultural crop production.

Harry Hay, founder of the Mattachine Society, one of the first gay rights organizations, said that Hoover and Tolson sat in boxes owned by and used exclusively by gay men at the Del Mar racetrack in California.

When interviewed about it, he stated, “ I certainly believe that people who are in pain should be helped and assisted in every way possible, that the drugs should be used to mitigate their pain but I believe the law of the United States of America which requires that drugs not be used except for legitimate health purposes .” " Attorney General Ashcroft Asks Supreme Court To Ban Assisted Suicide – California Healthline.

In the early history of California wine, the Merlot was used primarily as a 100 % varietal wine until wine maker Warren Winiarski encouraged taking the grape back to its blending roots with Bordeaux style blends.

It is used in the Yuki language of California and in the Pamean languages of Mexico, because the Yuki and Pame keep count by using the four spaces between their fingers rather than the fingers themselves.

A working Pelton wheel was used to generate electricity in Southern California.

For example, in one study done by Jeffrey Grogger and Greg Ridgeway, the veil of darkness hypothesis was used to determine whether or not racial profiling in traffic stops occurs in Oakland, California.

The first manufactured skateboards were ordered by a Los Angeles, California surf shop, meant to be used by surfers in their downtime.

* State Security Breach Notification Laws ( California and many others ) require businesses, nonprofits, and state institutions to notify consumers when unencrypted " personal information " may have been compromised, lost, or stolen.

In certain situations involving state public employees in the United States, such as California, " fair share laws " make it easy to require these sorts of payments.

Some states, such as California, provide that all common law crimes and misdemeanors require a jury trial.

Under California law a vexatious litigant is someone who does any of the following, most of which require that the litigant be proceeding pro se, i. e., representing himself:

“ California and Pennsylvania, starting Jan. 1, 2011, will be the first two states in the country to require sprinklers in every new home based on the International Code Council ( ICC ) mandating the installation of residential fire sprinklers in all new one-and two-family residences, including townhouses in the 2009 International Residential Code ( IRC ).

California Assembly Act AB 1634 was a bill introduced in 2007 that would require all non-working dogs of mixed breed over the age of 6 months to be neutered or spayed.

The construction of a cheese processing plant near the city by California based Hilmar Cheese Company will add an estimated three hundred jobs to the local economy and require additional dairies to meet the daily needs of the plant.

Since 2011, Pennsylvania and California require sprinkler systems in all new residential construction-the first US states to do so.

Some states such as California require that the parties be represented by counsel if spousal support ( alimony ) is limited.

He was the first chief to require that police officers attain college degrees, and persuaded the University of California to teach criminal justice.

U. S. regulations require that semi-generic names ( for example, California Champagne ) may be used on a wine label only if there appears next to such name the appellation of " the actual place of origin " in order to prevent any possible consumer confusion.

It was the intent of the people of California when they voted to amend the state constitution in 1918, to require the Legislature to establish a simple system that guaranteed full provision for adequate insurance coverage against liability to pay or furnish compensation.

) Certification by the Secretary of State of California would require completion within 39 days of the election, and history indicated that it could require that entire time frame to certify the statewide election results.

Laws in the state of California, for example, require an employer to pay its interns working in California unless the intern receives college credit for the labor.

In May 2005, based on its understanding of implied malice to require defendant's subjective appreciation and conscious disregard of a likely risk of causing serious bodily injury to another, the Court of Appeal reversed the trial court's call for a new trial on the second-only degree murder count, and Knoller appealed to the California Supreme Court.

There are no standardized training and licensing requirements for administrators, though most states require a Federal License, and many states such as California have their own licensure for administrators.

California, New York, Illinois, and many other United States jurisdictions require that in addition to substituted service, the documents be mailed to the recipient.

Some cities, such as Beverly Hills, California, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Sweden, New York and Bessemer City, North Carolina require that the homeowners apply and pay for a yard sale permit, and even with that homeowners in Beverly Hills can only hold yard sales in the back of their homes.

As a result, California was the first in the nation to require all of its toll bridges and roads to use the same ETC system.

Some states ( like New York ) bar such sale, and / or require expiration dates on all foods, but many ( like California ) do not.