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California Penal Code 647(g) affords law enforcement the option to take an individual fitting the arrest criteria for 647(f), and no other crime, into civil protective custody if a "sobering facility" is available. Often, this manifests in the form of a so-called drunk tank. Essentially, the detainee agrees to remain at the location until the ...
[A]n insurer may, under [California] Insurance Code sections 331 and 359, rescind a fire insurance policy based on an insured's negligent or unintentional misrepresentation of a material fact in an insurance application, notwithstanding the willful misrepresentation clause included in the required standard form fire insurance policy (Insurance ...
"420" did not originate from the Los Angeles police or penal code for marijuana use. [106] California Penal Code section 420 prohibits the obstruction of access to public land. [ 106 ] [ 107 ] The use of "420" started in 1971 at San Rafael High School , where a group of students would go to smoke at 4:20 pm. [ 106 ]
[1] [2] $3,819,000 was disbursed between the recipients, who were chosen from an applicant pool of 2,506. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 2 ] Of the 96 universities represented, [ 5 ] University of California, Berkeley had the most winners on its faculty (24), with Harvard University (22) claiming second and Stanford University (12) claiming third.
[2] [3] She was married to Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes ("El Mencho"), Mexico's most-wanted man and the CJNG leader until 2018. [1] Born in rural Michoacán, Rosalinda grew up in a family of 18 siblings and was the eldest of her sisters. Her family originally grew avocados, but eventually turned to cultivating marijuana and opium poppy.
Penal colony in the Andaman Islands, British Raj (c. 1890s) With the passage of the Transportation Act 1717, the British government initiated the penal transportation of indentured servants to Britain's colonies in the Americas, although none of the North American colonies were solely penal colonies. British merchants would be in charge of ...
The Constitutional Bar (Romanian: Baroul Constituțional), also known as the Romanian Constitutional Bar (Romanian: Baroul Constituțional Român) or the Bota Bar (Baroul Bota) and which fictitiously called itself the National Association of Romanian Bars (Uniunea Națională a Barourilor din România) in order to obtain material benefits, also called UNBR Bota (UNBR Bota) by then; was a ...
The section of the Penal Code criminalising consensual same-sex relations was inherited from the colonial rule of the British Raj; it was enacted on 6 October 1860 and went into force on 1 January 1862. Written by Lord Macaulay, the then-named Indian Penal Code 1860, made male same-sex sexual acts illegal under the British law of "Unnatural ...