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  2. Writ of mandate (California) - Wikipedia

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    Administrative mandate lies when the filing party wishes to appeal "any final administrative order or decision made as the result of a proceeding in which by law a hearing is required to be given, evidence is required to be taken, and discretion in the determination of facts is vested in the inferior tribunal". [35]

  3. Adjudication - Wikipedia

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    Adjudication is the legal process by which an arbiter or judge reviews evidence and argumentation, including legal reasoning set forth by opposing parties or litigants, to come to a decision which determines rights and obligations between the parties involved. [1]

  4. Groundwater court disputes will consider environmental ...

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    In that process, a court defines the legal rights each agricultural, residential or municipal entity has to groundwater in the area. California Courts have adjudicated approximately 30 groundwater ...

  5. California Evidence Code - Wikipedia

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    The California Evidence Code (abbreviated to Evid. Code in the California Style Manual) is a California code that was enacted by the California State Legislature on May 18, 1965 [1] to codify the formerly mostly common-law law of evidence. Section 351 of the Code effectively abolished any remnants of the law of evidence not explicitly included ...

  6. Criminal procedure - Wikipedia

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    Criminal procedure is the adjudication process of the criminal law. While criminal procedure differs dramatically by jurisdiction, the process generally begins with a formal criminal charge with the person on trial either being free on bail or incarcerated, and results in the conviction or acquittal of the defendant. Criminal procedure can be ...

  7. Summary judgment - Wikipedia

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    The California view is that the latter term is an oxymoron since a judgment is defined by California Code of Civil Procedure Section 577 as the "final determination of the rights of the parties" [17] and a "partial summary judgment" is not actually final since it necessarily leaves some issues to be decided at trial. There is currently a ...

  8. Law of California - Wikipedia

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    Bernard Witkin's Summary of California Law, a legal treatise popular with California judges and lawyers. The Constitution of California is the foremost source of state law. . Legislation is enacted within the California Statutes, which in turn have been codified into the 29 California Co

  9. Rochin v. California - Wikipedia

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    Rochin v. California, 342 U.S. 165 (1952), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States that added behavior that "shocks the conscience" into tests of what violates due process clause of the 14th Amendment. [1]