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Ronald M. George

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Ronald Marc George (born March 11, 1940) is the retired 27th Chief Justice of California, where he headed the Supreme Court of California and the Judicial Council of California. [1]

68 relations: Aikens v. California, Allen Broussard, Amicus curiae, Angelo Buono Jr., Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, Attorney General of California, Bachelor of Arts, Barbara Boxer, Beverly Hills High School, Beverly Hills, California, California courts of appeal, California elections, November 2008, California Proposition 8 (2008), California superior courts, Capital punishment in California, Capital punishment in the United States, Chimel v. California, Constitution of California, Democratic Party (United States), Equal Protection Clause, George Deukmejian, Governor of California, Hillside Strangler, Hollingsworth v. Perry, In re Marriage Cases, Interracial marriage, Janice Rogers Brown, Jerry Brown, John Van de Kamp, Judicial Council of California, Juris Doctor, Kathryn Werdegar, Kirby v. Illinois, League of Women Voters, List of Justices of the Supreme Court of California, Los Angeles County District Attorney, Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles Times, Malcolm Lucas, Marvin Gay Sr., Marvin Gaye, McGautha v. California, Motion (legal), Murder, People v. Anderson, Perez v. Sharp, Pete Wilson, Princeton University, Ronald Reagan, Same-sex marriage in California, ..., San Francisco Chronicle, Sandra Day O'Connor, Secretary of State of California, Serial killer, Sirhan Sirhan, Stanford Law School, Strict scrutiny, Supreme Court of California, Supreme Court of the United States, Tani Cantil-Sakauye, The Mercury News, The National Law Journal, The New York Times, The Sacramento Bee, United States, United States presidential election, 1968, United States Senate, USA Today. Expand index (18 more) »

Aikens v. California

Aikens v. California, 406 U.S. 813 (1972), was a decision of the United States Supreme Court where a petitioner (in the U.S. Supreme Court, the plaintiff (Aikens) is called the petitioner and the defendant (the State of California) is called the respondent) was appealing his conviction and death sentence.

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Allen Broussard

Allen Edgar Broussard (April 13, 1929 – November 5, 1996) was an African-American attorney who rose to become an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court from July 22, 1981, to August 31, 1991.

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Amicus curiae

An amicus curiae (literally, "friend of the court"; plural, amici curiae) is someone who is not a party to a case and may or may not have been solicited by a party, who assists a court by offering information, expertise, or insight that has a bearing on the issues in the case, and is typically presented in the form of a brief.

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Angelo Buono Jr.

Angelo Anthony Buono Jr. (October 5, 1934 – September 21, 2002) was an American serial killer, kidnapper and rapist, who together with his cousin Kenneth Bianchi were known as the Hillside Stranglers, and were convicted for killing ten young women in Los Angeles between October 1977 and February 1978.

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Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy

On June 5, 1968, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was mortally wounded shortly after midnight PDT at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.

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Attorney General of California

The Attorney General of California is the state attorney general of the Government of California.

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Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts (BA or AB, from the Latin baccalaureus artium or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, sciences, or both.

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Barbara Boxer

Barbara Levy Boxer (born November 11, 1940) is a retired American politician who served as a United States Senator for California from 1993 to 2017.

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Beverly Hills High School

Beverly Hills High School (usually abbreviated as "Beverly" or as "BHHS") is the only major public high school in Beverly Hills, California.

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Beverly Hills, California

Beverly Hills is an affluent city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, surrounded by the cities of Los Angeles and West Hollywood.

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California courts of appeal

The California courts of appeal are the state intermediate appellate courts in the U.S. state of California.

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California elections, November 2008

The California state elections, November 2008 were held on November 4, 2008 throughout California.

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California Proposition 8 (2008)

Proposition 8, known informally as Prop 8, was a California ballot proposition and a state constitutional amendment passed in the November 2008 California state elections.

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California superior courts

Superior courts in California are the state trial courts with general jurisdiction to hear and decide any civil or criminal action which is not specially designated to be heard in some other court or before a governmental agency.

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Capital punishment in California

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of California.

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Capital punishment in the United States

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the United States, currently used by 31 states, the federal government, and the military.

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Chimel v. California

Chimel v. California, 395 U.S. 752 (1969), is a 1969 Supreme Court of the United States case.

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Constitution of California

The Constitution of the State of California is the constitution of California, describing the duties, powers, structure and function of the government of California.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).

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Equal Protection Clause

The Equal Protection Clause is part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

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George Deukmejian

Courken George Deukmejian Jr. (June 6, 1928 – May 8, 2018), in Armenian Ջորջ Դոքմեջյան, in Western Armenian Ճորճ Տէօքմէճեան was an American politician who was the 35th Governor of California from 1983 to 1991 and Attorney General of California from 1979 to 1983.

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Governor of California

The Governor of California is the head of government of the U.S. state of California.

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Hillside Strangler

The Hillside Strangler, later the Hillside Stranglers, is the media epithet for one, later two American serial killers who terrorized Los Angeles between October 1977 and February 1978, with the nicknames originating from the fact that many of the victims' bodies were discovered on the sides of the Hollywood Hills.

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Hollingsworth v. Perry

Hollingsworth v. Perry refers to a series of United States federal court cases that legalized same-sex marriage in the State of California.

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In re Marriage Cases

In re Marriage Cases, 183 P.3d 384 (Cal. 2008) was a California Supreme Court case where the court held that laws treating classes of persons differently based on sexual orientation should be subject to strict judicial scrutiny, and that an existing statute and initiative measure limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples violate the rights of same-sex couples under the California Constitution and may not be used to preclude them from marrying.

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Interracial marriage

Interracial marriage is a form of marriage outside a specific social group (exogamy) involving spouses who belong to different socially-defined races or racialized ethnicities.

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Janice Rogers Brown

Janice Rogers Brown (born May 11, 1949) is a former United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

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Jerry Brown

Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown Jr. (born April 7, 1938) is an American politician, author and lawyer serving as the 39th and current Governor of California since 2011, previously holding the position from 1975 to 1983, making him the state's longest-serving Governor.

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John Van de Kamp

John Van de Kamp (February 7, 1936 – March 14, 2017) was an American politician.

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Judicial Council of California

The Judicial Council of California is the rule-making arm of the California court system.

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Juris Doctor

The Juris Doctor degree (J.D. or JD), also known as the Doctor of Jurisprudence degree (J.D., JD, D.Jur. or DJur), is a graduate-entry professional degree in law and one of several Doctor of Law degrees.

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Kathryn Werdegar

Kathryn Mickle Werdegar (born April 5, 1936) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California from June 3, 1994, to August 31, 2017.

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Kirby v. Illinois

Kirby v. Illinois, 406 U.S. 682 (1972), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States that held that the Sixth Amendment right to counsel did not attach during a pre-indictment identification.

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League of Women Voters

The League of Women Voters (LWV) is an American civic organization that was formed to help women take a larger role in public affairs after they won the right to vote.

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List of Justices of the Supreme Court of California

This is a list of Justices of the Supreme Court of California.

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Los Angeles County District Attorney

The District Attorney of Los Angeles County is the district attorney (DA) for Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Los Angeles County, California

Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles, is the most populous county in the United States, with more than 10 million inhabitants as of 2017.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Malcolm Lucas

Malcolm Millar Lucas (April 19, 1927 – September 28, 2016) was the 26th Chief Justice of California.

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Marvin Gay Sr.

Marvin Pentz Gay Sr. (October 1, 1914 – October 10, 1998) was an American Pentecostal minister.

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Marvin Gaye

Marvin Gaye (born Marvin Pentz Gay Jr.; April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984) was an American singer, songwriter and record producer.

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McGautha v. California

McGautha v. California,, is a criminal case heard by the United States Supreme Court, in which the Court held that the lack of legal standards by which juries imposed the death penalty was not an unconstitutional violation of the due process clause portion of the Eighth Amendment.

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Motion (legal)

In United States law, a motion is a procedural device to bring a limited, contested issue before a court for decision.

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Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human being with malice aforethought.

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People v. Anderson

The People of the State of California v. Robert Page Anderson, 493 P.2d 880, 6 Cal.

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Perez v. Sharp

Perez v. Sharp, also known as Perez v. Lippold or Perez v. Moroney, is a 1948 case decided by the Supreme Court of California in which the court held by a 4-3 majority that the state's ban on interracial marriage violated the Fourteenth Amendment of the US. Constitution.

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Pete Wilson

Peter Barton Wilson (born August 23, 1933) is an American politician.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

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Same-sex marriage in California

Same-sex marriage is legal in the U.S. state of California, and first became so on June 16, 2008, when the state began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples as the result of the Supreme Court of California ruling in In re Marriage Cases, which found that barring same-sex couples from marriage violated the state's Constitution.

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San Francisco Chronicle

The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California.

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Sandra Day O'Connor

Sandra Day O'Connor (born March 26, 1930) is a retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, having served from her appointment in 1981 by Ronald Reagan until 2006.

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Secretary of State of California

The Secretary of State of California is the chief clerk of the U.S. State of California, overseeing a department of 500 people.

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Serial killer

A serial killer is typically a person who murders three or more people,A serial killer is most commonly defined as a person who kills three or more people for psychological gratification; reliable sources over the years agree.

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Sirhan Sirhan

Sirhan Bishara Sirhan (سرحان بشارة سرحان, born March 19, 1944) is a Palestinian with Jordanian citizenship who shot and mortally wounded Senator Robert F. Kennedy on June 5, 1968; Kennedy died the following day.

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Stanford Law School

Stanford Law School (also known as Stanford Law or SLS) is a professional graduate school of Stanford University, located in the Silicon Valley near Palo Alto, California.

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Strict scrutiny

Strict scrutiny is the most stringent standard of judicial review used by United States courts.

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Supreme Court of California

The Supreme Court of California is the court of last resort in the courts of the State of California.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.

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Tani Cantil-Sakauye

Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye (born October 19, 1959) is the 28th Chief Justice of California.

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The Mercury News

The Mercury News (formerly San Jose Mercury News, often locally known as The Merc) is a morning daily newspaper published in San Jose, California, United States.

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The National Law Journal

The National Law Journal, a U.S. periodical founded in 1978 by Jerry Finkelstein, as a "sibling newspaper" of the New York Law Journal, that itself was founded in 1888.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Sacramento Bee

The Sacramento Bee is a daily newspaper published in Sacramento, California, in the United States.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States presidential election, 1968

The United States presidential election of 1968 was the 46th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1968.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.

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USA Today

USA Today is an internationally distributed American daily, middle-market newspaper that serves as the flagship publication of its owner, the Gannett Company.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_M._George

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