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After Santa Clara County was formed on April 25, 1851, a contest was held to select a design for a new building worthy of being a state capitol in 1860. The winning entry, designed by Levi Goodrich, was constructed from 1866 to 1868 at a cost of US$173,737.96 (equivalent to $4,100,000 in 2024). [2] The courthouse was destroyed by fire in May 1931.
Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company, 118 U.S. 394 (1886), is a corporate law case of the United States Supreme Court concerning taxation of railroad properties. The case is most notable for a headnote stating that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment grants constitutional protections to corporations.
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.
Superior Court of the State of California for and in the County of Santa Clara: Full case name: The People of the State of California v. Brock Allen Turner : Indictment: January 28, 2015, on counts: rape of an intoxicated person, in violation of California Penal Code § 261(a)(3) rape of an unconscious person, in violation of PC § 261(a)(4)
Santa Clara (/ ˌ s æ n t ə ˈ k l ær ə / SAN-tə KLARR-ə; Spanish for "Saint Clare") [8] is a city in Santa Clara County, California. The city's population was 127,647 at the 2020 census , making it the eighth-most populous city in the Bay Area .
In Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Co. v. Illinois, 557 (1886), also known as the Wabash Case, the Supreme Court severely limited the rights of states to control or impede interstate commerce. The decision led to the creation of the federal Interstate Commerce Commission , the first modern regulatory agency in the United States.
In 1982, California governor Edmund Gerald “Jerry” Brown, Jr. appointed Cordell to be a municipal court judge for the County of Santa Clara; she was the first California judge to order breath devices installed into the cars of drivers convicted of driving while under the influence of alcohol, and was presiding judge from 1985 to 1986.
Vitol SA v. Norelf Ltd, The Santa Clara [1996] A.C. 800; [1996] 3 W.L.R. 105; [1996] 3 All E.R. 193, is an English contract law case about the effect of non-performance in accepting a contracting partner's repudiatory breach of contract.