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Tabash has written amicus briefs urging the separation of church and state, in cases before the Supreme Court of the United States [9] [10] and the California State Supreme Court and the California Court of Appeal. [11] Tabash works in the Los Angeles area. [12] Tabash believes in personal freedom.
Founded in a small office on Fairfax Blvd. with a staff of part-time volunteers, Bet Tzedek has since grown to become one of the prominent legal aid organizations in Los Angeles County. Over the past 50 years, Bet Tzedek has provided legal services to nearly 1 million individuals in Los Angeles and surrounding areas.
She was admitted to the bar in 1978, and at the California bar in 1991. [ citation needed ] She caused controversy on usenet in the mid-1990s when she tried to get the newsgroup alt.religion.scientology shut down, [ 10 ] and later e-mailed legal warnings to participants who had quoted as few as six lines of Scientology texts.
May Otis Blackburn in 1929. May Otis Blackburn (August 2, 1881, Storm Lake, Iowa – June 17, 1951, Los Angeles, California) was the founder and self-appointed Queen and High Priestess of the 1920s Los Angeles new religious movement, "The Divine Order of the Royal Arms of the Great Eleven."
Botiller v. Dominguez, 130 U.S. 238 (1889), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court dealing with the validity of Spanish or Mexican land grants in the Mexican Cession, the region of the present day southwestern United States that was ceded to the U.S. by Mexico in 1848 under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
The story of its 1950 founding goes that the spiritual guru Paramahansa Yogananda purchased the 10-acre Pacific Palisades property from an oil company president, after the oilman had a vivid dream ...
The Spiritual Counterfeits Project (SCP) is a Christian evangelical parachurch organization located in Pasadena, California. Since its inception in the early 1970s, it has been involved in the fields of Christian apologetics and the Christian counter-cult movement. Its current president is Dr. Mark J Harris.
Ricardo Cruz (July 1, 1943 – July 21, 1993), aka Richard V. (Vincent) Cruz, was a Los Angeles, California attorney who fought for many Chicano Movement causes. He was an early organizer of La Raza Law Students and the short-lived but highly effective Catolicos Por La Raza in the 1960s and 1970s.