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Lockyer v. Andrade, 538 U.S. 63 (2003), [1] decided the same day as Ewing v. California (a case with a similar subject matter), [2] held that there would be no relief by means of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus from a sentence imposed under California's three strikes law as a violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishments.
In separate cases that were rolled into one before the court, Esmelis Campos-Chaves, Varinder Singh and Raul Daniel Mendez-Colín each asked the courts to rescind an "in absentia" deportation ...
It was incumbent on the court that tried the case to verify that [Maleki] had been informed of the pending case before proceeding to hold the trial in absentia. Failing evidence that the court did so, the [HRC] is of the opinion that [Maleki's] right to be tried in his presence was violated. [21] In 2009, a former CIA station chief and two ...
Sheetz v. County of El Dorado (Docket No. 22-1074) is a United States Supreme Court case regarding permit exactions under the Takings Clause.The Supreme Court held, in a unanimous opinion by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, that fees for land-use permits must be closely related and roughly proportional to the effects of the land use – the test established by Nollan v.
Burnham v. Superior Court of California, 495 U.S. 604 (1990), was a United States Supreme Court case addressing whether a state court may, consistent with the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, exercise personal jurisdiction over a non-resident of the state who is served with process while temporarily visiting the state.
Whether exhaustion of state administrative remedies is required to bring claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in state court. January 12, 2024: October 7, 2024 Wisconsin Bell, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Todd Heath: 23-1127
The state appealed both decisions; [7] the ruling in Duncan v. Bonta was reversed by the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. [15] Gun control advocates say the San Diego court's unique process for transferring related cases to a single judge, out of the court's more than a dozen judges, has encouraged gun rights advocates to engage in forum ...
To be eligible to become a superior court judge in California, one must have been a member of the State Bar of California for at least ten years. [3] One quirk of California law is that when a party petitions the appellate courts for a writ of mandate (California's version of mandamus), the case name becomes [petitioner name] v.