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The Panic of 1893 was an economic depression in the United States. It began in February 1893 and officially ended eight months later, but the effects from it continued to be felt until 1897. [ 1 ] It was the most serious economic depression in history until the Great Depression of the 1930s.
In 1913, he was appointed to a vacancy on the Los Angeles County Superior Court. He was elected in 1914 and re-elected in 1920. [2] [3] On January 15, 1923, Governor William Stephens appointed Myers as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California to fill a vacancy when Curtis D. Wilbur was named chief justice.
In 1883, Cope became the California Reporter of Decisions, and in March 1885 was appointed to a four-year term as commissioner of the Supreme Court. [ 11 ] After leaving the court, Cope returned to private practice [ 12 ] until about 1893, when he retired to Contra Costa County , where he raised nuts and fruit.
The Golden Dream: California from Gold Rush to Statehood. Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company, Portland, OR. ISBN 1-55868-312-7. Ethington, Philip J.; The public city, the political construction of urban life in San Francisco, 1850-1900; University of Southern California Press, Los Angeles (1994) (ISBN 9780521415651 | ISBN 0-521-41565-9)
The Supreme Court of California is the highest and final court of appeals in the courts of the U.S. state of California. It is headquartered in San Francisco at the Earl Warren Building , [ 1 ] but it regularly holds sessions in Los Angeles and Sacramento . [ 2 ]
Erskine Mayo Ross (June 30, 1845 – December 10, 1928) was an American attorney and jurist from California.He served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and of the United States Circuit Courts for the Ninth Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of ...
Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif., will introduce legislation to rename the Los Angeles U.S. Courthouse after the Latino family whose lawsuit Mendez v. Westminster paved the way for school desegregation.
In 1892 the Geary Act, named after California representative Thomas J. Geary, extended the Chinese exclusion act and added new restrictions on Chinese, such as requiring them to carry a resident permit at all times. 1893 saw a wave of anti Chinese riots in California, partly because of an increase in unemployment due to the Panic of 1893. [10]