"Any doubts about the validity of Michael's will and his selection of executors were thoroughly and completely debunked two years ago when a challenge was rejected by the Los Angeles County Superior Court, the California Court of Appeals and, finally, the California Supreme Court, " Bates said.
However, one of the most sweeping cost cutting actions comes from instructions directed by the judicial branch of government with a ruling from the Supreme Court on the overcrowding of prisons in California.
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March 2013: Obama personally reviews and OKs his administration's amicus or "friend of the court" brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court as it weighs the constitutionality of California's 2008 Proposition 8 referendum banning same-sex marriage.
Today, the Supreme Court heard the case of the California SWAT officer who sued the city of Ontario for violation of his privacy after his employer reviewed the messages he sent on his work-issued pager.
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"For the past four years, we've lived our lives in this hurry-up-and-wait, pins-and-needles way, " Perry said, recalling the crush of court deadlines and the seemingly endless wait for rulings from a federal district judge, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, also based there, and the California Supreme Court.
Last year, the game industry faced a harsh economy and increased scrutiny as the U.S. Supreme Court decided to formally consider the legality of a California law restricting the sales of violent video games.
So many nonviolent offenders crowd our prison system that the US Supreme Court has ordered California to release nearly a quarter of its prison population.
In 2004, the ban was challenged by gay rights activists after California's Supreme Court invalidated the marriage of 4, 000 gay couples in San Francisco.
This bill was inspired by a California Supreme Court ruling in January in the case of Gregory Diaz.
She then worked in private practice and in the California attorney general's office before joining the California Court of Appeals and later the state Supreme Court.
By letting stand a lower court's decision, the Supreme Court agreed that San Francisco's civic ownership of the cross violates the California constitution's guarantee of government neutrality in religious matters.
Anticipating that the issue might ultimately be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court, California and other states have passed laws that specifically allow statutes of limitations to be extended in cases where they have DNA and other conditions are met.
The U.S. Supreme Court, as expected, struck down a California law banning the sale of violent video games to children, saying video games are protected under the First Amendment and the law was an unconstitutional restriction of the freedom of speech.
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More than 100 Republicans also submitted a "friend of the court" brief to the Supreme Court asking the justices to overturn California's ban on same-sex marriage.
On Monday, the California Supreme Court ruled that police in that state can search the contents of an arrested person's cell phone.
In a monumental decision for the video game industry, the Supreme Court has ruled that a California violent video game ban is unconstitutional and a violation of free speech.
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He paints a nightmare picture of scientists owning people's genes (based on a California Supreme Court decision that declared a patient's tissue ceased to be his once it left his body and that doctors could profitably conduct research on that tissue).
Back in 1953 President Dwight Eisenhower appointed California Governor Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Prop 8 which passed with 52% of the vote amended California's constitution to nullify a state Supreme Court ruling that the California constitution requires that same-sex marriage be permitted.
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In February, former party Chairman Ken Mehlman gathered more than 130 signatures from top Republicans in support of overturning California's gay-marriage ban, which went before the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
"This measure would overturn a California Supreme Court decision that held that police officers can lawfully search the cell phones of people who they arrest, " the governor's brief statement said.
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) Big change is coming to the lives of the lesbian couple at the center of the fight for same-sex marriage in California no matter how the Supreme Court decides their case.
On Wednesday, the three who founded a company while they were all students at Harvard called ConnectU told a California court that they had decided not to pursue an appeal to the Supreme Court of a ruling that held the 2008 settlement should stand.
Alcala was convicted of Samsoe's death in 1980 and sentenced to death, but the California Supreme Court overturned his conviction.
WASHINGTON California could be forced to release tens of thousands of felons early after the Supreme Court ordered it Monday to reduce overcrowding, in a warning to states that efforts to get tough on crime must be accompanied by adequate prison funding.
Granted, the U.S. Supreme Court didn't buy that argument in 2011 when it considered a California law regulating the sale of violent games to minors, and criticized the quality of the research attempting to link violent games with aggression more broadly.
The effectiveness of his leadership, however, will be determined by the U.S. Supreme Court as it considers a California ban on same-sex marriage.
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