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The People of the State of California v. Superior Court (Romero), 13 CAL. 4TH 497, 917 P.2D 628 ( Cal. 1996), was a landmark case in the state of California that gave California Superior Court judges the ability to dismiss a criminal defendant 's "strike prior" pursuant to the California Three-strikes law, thereby avoiding a 25-to-life minimum ...
The Brandeis brief was a pioneering legal brief that was the first in United States legal history to rely more on a compilation of scientific information and social science literature than on legal citations. [1] It is named after then-litigator and eventual associate Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, who presented it in his argument for ...
The Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Respondent (Ronald Decker, Real Party in Interest) The People of the State of California v. Superior Court (Decker), 41 Cal. 4th 1 (2007), is a criminal case decided by the Supreme Court of California that distinguished between solicitation and attempt. [1] : 701–2.
Bollinger to the 2016 case Fisher v. University of Texas (2016). The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Bakke, a 1978 landmark decision, that affirmative action could be used as a determining factor in college admission policy but that the University of California, Davis School of Medicine's racial quota was discriminatory. The Court upheld this case ...
Superior Court. National Audubon Society v. Superior Court (Supreme Court of California, 1983, 33 Cal.3d 419) was a key case in California highlighting the conflict between the public trust doctrine and appropriative water rights. [1] The Public Trust Doctrine is based on the principle that certain resources (such as navigable waters) are too ...
Michigan v. Bryant, 562 U.S. 344 (2011), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court further developed the "primary purpose" test to determine whether statements are "testimonial" for Confrontation Clause purposes. [1] In Bryant, the Court expanded upon the test first articulated in Davis v. Washington, "addressing for the first ...
Goodridge v. Dept. of Public Health, 798 N.E.2d 941 ( Mass. 2003), is a landmark Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court case in which the Court held that the Massachusetts Constitution requires the state to legally recognize same-sex marriage. The November 18, 2003, decision was the first by a U.S. state 's highest court to find that same-sex ...
People v. Berry [1] is a voluntary manslaughter case that is widely taught in American law schools for the appellate court ' s unusual interpretation of heat of passion doctrine. Although the defendant had time to "cool down" between his wife's verbal admission of infidelity and the killing, the California Supreme Court held that the ...