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The land for what is now Courthouse Square was deeded to the City of Stockton by C.M. Weber in 1851, and the cost of a new courthouse was to be shared equally between city and county. [3]: 191–196 A tax of 1 ⁄ 4 % was enacted to raise funds for the court house and city hall, which was designed by Ayres and Higgins in 1853. The cornerstone ...
On July 5, 2006, workers began bulldozing the farm amidst strong protest and acts of civil disobedience. The farmers disputed the validity of the sale in court and staged vigils in protest. The farm is the subject of the 2008 Academy Award-nominated documentary film The Garden and the PBS documentary, South Central Farm, Oasis in a Concrete Desert.
In that instance, all superior courts are free to pick and choose which precedent they wish to follow until the state supreme court settles the issue for the entire state, although a superior court confronted with such a conflict will normally follow the view of its own Court of Appeal (if it has already taken a side on the issue). [5]
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Another quirk is that because the superior courts are now fully unified with all courts of inferior jurisdiction, the superior courts must hear relatively minor cases that previously would have been heard in such inferior courts, such as infractions, misdemeanors, "limited civil" actions (actions where the amount in controversy is below $35,000), and "small claims" actions.
The San Joaquin Superior Court, which covers the entire county, is not a County department but a division of the State's trial court system. Historically, the courthouses were county-owned buildings that were maintained at county expense, which created significant friction since the trial court judges, as officials of the state government, had ...
May 22—A federal court judge dismissed basketball legend John Stockton's lawsuit against the Washington State Office of the Attorney General Wednesday over pandemic rules that restricted doctors ...
The Lodi Garden Club contributed a rose garden in 1961. By 1964, the garden contained 227 roses. The club later added a three-tiered rock garden to the display. [14] The Joaquin Camellia Society planted a camellia garden east of the Japanese Garden in 1965. The garden was dedicated to K. O. Hester, who donated many of the camellia plants, in ...