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13 unusual facts about Supreme Court of California


Alison Bechdel

However, all same-sex marriage licenses given by the city at that time were subsequently voided by the California Supreme Court.

Ben Wildman-Tobriner

Wildman-Tobriner's paternal grandfather, Mathew Tobriner, served as a California Supreme Court Justice for 20 years.

Benjamin Franklin Terry

One brother David S. Terry later moved to California and served on that state's Supreme Court.

Brinker International

2012: In May, the Supreme Court of California issued its much-awaited decision in Brinker Restaurant Corp. v. Superior Court.

Burton Awards for Legal Achievement

Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and Judge Carol Corrigan of the Supreme Court of California are honorary members on the board of directors.

Darla K. Anderson

They first married on Presidents' Day 2004 while San Francisco was issuing same-sex marriage licenses, but those licenses were voided by the state Supreme Court.

Deena Metzger

The first Academic Freedom Award, the California Federation of Teachers, 1975 after being reinstated by a unanimous decision of the Supreme Court of California to her tenured teaching position at Los Angeles Valley College from which Metzger had been fired in 1969.

Douglas L. Edmonds

Douglas L. Edmonds ( – May 10, 1962) was an American jurist, serving on the Supreme Court of California and the United Nation's International Law Commission.

Four boxes of liberty

The term is used in newspaper articles, and has been used in a petition to the Supreme Court of California.

Kenneth Cole Productions

For example, on April 16, 2007, the Supreme Court of California unanimously affirmed a trial court judgment requiring the company to pay an additional hour of pay for each day that a store manager had been forced to work a nine-hour shift without a break.

Pete Coscarart

A California Appeals Court ruled against the players in December 2001 as Coscarart was informed by Commissioner Bud Selig that he was not entitled to $10,000 in annual pension benefits because of his suit against major league baseball.

See's Candies

Laurance A. See's 1962 divorce from his wife Elizabeth led to a landmark community property ruling by the California Supreme Court.

TEC-9

In 2001, the Supreme Court of California ruled that Intratec was not liable for the 1993 California Street attacks.


Escola v. Coca-Cola Bottling Co.

, 24 Cal.2d 453, 150 P.2d 436 (1944), was a decision of the Supreme Court of California involving an injury caused by an exploding bottle of Coca-Cola.

Jackson Temple

Jackson Temple (August 11, 1827–December 25, 1902) was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California.

Joseph Libbey Folsom

Folsom's controversial purchase of Rancho Rio de los Americanos from the heirs of a San Francisco merchant William Alexander Leidesdorff remained tied up in litigation for many years, eventually reaching the Supreme Court of California after Folsom's death.

Kleffman v. Vonage Holdings Corp.

, 232 P.3d 625 (Cal. 2010), is a 2010 Supreme Court of California case certified by United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Tom Harman

Upon graduating from Loyola, Harman joined the Long Beach law firm of Lucas & Deukmejian, whose partners were future California Chief Justice Malcolm M. Lucas and future Governor George Deukmejian.