Add to ORKGThe period from 1849 to 1865 was a tumultuous time for the people of California and for its Supreme Court. Consisting at the time of only three justices, the court was called upon to decide claims that went to the heart of the divisions that wrenched the state, over slavery, land ownership, religion, and race. Some of these were constitutional claims that might today be asserted under the federal Bill of Rights, but at the time (since the Bill of Rights was deemed inapplicable to the states) they were considered under the Declaration of Rights, Article I, of the state Constitution. This article examines the California Supreme Court\u27s early decisions under article I, and finds the justices grappling with issues - such as interpretive meth...
State supreme courts occasionally rely on the provisions of their own state constitutions to expand ...
After an unsuccessful attempt in 1982, the California electorate removed three of the Justices of th...
While the twenty-first amendment rationale of LaRue appears to pose a threat to certain individual r...
The period from 1849 to 1865 was a tumultuous time for the people of California and for its Supreme ...
Part I of this Article discusses the fundamental nature of the rights found in California\u27s Decla...
This article examines the formation of the Bill of Rights--or Declaration of Rights as it was entitl...
In 1911, the California Constitution was amended to divide the state’s legislative power by reservin...
A multiplicity of courts is one characteristic of an immature court system. From 1849 to the present...
California’s pressing structural problems require changes to the California Constitution that may be...
The California Supreme Court Survey provides a brief synopsis of recent decisions by the supreme cou...
California has often been viewed as a rather lenient and progressive state in terms of being accepti...
This was a year in which the reviewing courts in California were confronted with contemporary proble...
The California Supreme Court has replaced the New York Court of Appeals, the federal Court of Appeal...
The single-subject rule has been part of the California Constitution since 1948. However, the Califo...
This was a big year for the California Supreme Court, perhaps its biggest year this decade. It would...
State supreme courts occasionally rely on the provisions of their own state constitutions to expand ...
After an unsuccessful attempt in 1982, the California electorate removed three of the Justices of th...
While the twenty-first amendment rationale of LaRue appears to pose a threat to certain individual r...
The period from 1849 to 1865 was a tumultuous time for the people of California and for its Supreme ...
Part I of this Article discusses the fundamental nature of the rights found in California\u27s Decla...
This article examines the formation of the Bill of Rights--or Declaration of Rights as it was entitl...
In 1911, the California Constitution was amended to divide the state’s legislative power by reservin...
A multiplicity of courts is one characteristic of an immature court system. From 1849 to the present...
California’s pressing structural problems require changes to the California Constitution that may be...
The California Supreme Court Survey provides a brief synopsis of recent decisions by the supreme cou...
California has often been viewed as a rather lenient and progressive state in terms of being accepti...
This was a year in which the reviewing courts in California were confronted with contemporary proble...
The California Supreme Court has replaced the New York Court of Appeals, the federal Court of Appeal...
The single-subject rule has been part of the California Constitution since 1948. However, the Califo...
This was a big year for the California Supreme Court, perhaps its biggest year this decade. It would...
State supreme courts occasionally rely on the provisions of their own state constitutions to expand ...
After an unsuccessful attempt in 1982, the California electorate removed three of the Justices of th...
While the twenty-first amendment rationale of LaRue appears to pose a threat to certain individual r...