Earl Warren was an American attorney,politician,and jurist who served as the 30th governor of California from 1943 to 1953 and as the 14th Chief Justice of the United States from 1953 to 1969. The Warren Court presided over a major shift in American constitutional jurisprudence,which has been recognized by many as a "Constitutional Revolution" in the liberal direction,with Warren writing the majority opinions in landmark cases such as Brown v. Board of Education (1954),Reynolds v. Sims (1964),Miranda v. Arizona (1966),and Loving v. Virginia (1967). Warren also led the Warren Commission,a presidential commission that investigated the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He served as Governor of California from 1943 to 1953,and is the last chief justice to have served in an elected office before nomination to the Supreme Court. Warren is generally considered to be one of the most influential Supreme Court justices and political leaders in the history of the United States.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is the U.S. federal court of appeals that has appellate jurisdiction over the U.S. district courts in the following federal judicial districts:
Stephen Johnson Field was an American jurist. He was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from May 20,1863,to December 1,1897,the second longest tenure of any justice. Prior to this appointment,he was the fifth Chief Justice of California.
The University of San Diego School of Law is the law school of the University of San Diego,a private Roman Catholic research university in San Diego,California. Founded in 1954,the law school has held ABA approval since 1961. It joined the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) in 1966.
Martin Joseph Jenkins is an American attorney and jurist serving as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California. He was previously a justice of the California Court of Appeal for the First District,located in San Francisco,and a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
Paul J. De Muniz is a retired American judge in the state of Oregon. He is the first Hispanic Chief Justice in the history of the Oregon Supreme Court. He was elected to the court in 2000,and elected as chief justice in 2006. He won re-election in May 2006 for another six-year term on the state's highest court. De Muniz previously served on the Oregon Court of Appeals for ten years.
The Pepperdine University Rick J. Caruso School of Law is the law school of Pepperdine University,a private research university in Los Angeles County,California. The school offers the Juris Doctor (JD),and various Masters of Laws (LLM) options in Dispute Resolution,International Commercial Arbitration,United States Law,and Entertainment,Media,and Sports Law. The school also offers joint degrees with its JD and Master of Dispute Resolution (MDR) in partnership with other Pepperdine University graduate schools. The school now offers an online Master of Legal Studies program and an online Master of Dispute Resolution program.
Samuel Lee Hanson is an American lawyer and judge from the state of Minnesota. He served on the Minnesota Court of Appeals from 2000 to 2002 and as an Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court from 2002 to 2008. When not serving on the bench,he has practiced with the Minneapolis law firm of Briggs &Morgan.
Miriam Mattinen Shearing is an American lawyer and retired judge in Nevada. Shearing was the first woman to serve as a Nevada district judge and as justice and chief justice on the Supreme Court of Nevada (1993–2005).
Lidia Shenade Stiglich is an American attorney and jurist serving as a justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada since 2016. She was appointed by Governor Brian Sandoval on November 10,2016.
Abbi Silver is an American attorney who served as a justice of the Nevada Supreme Court from 2019 to 2022.
Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt,587 U.S. ___ (2019),was a United States Supreme Court case that determined that unless they consent,states have sovereign immunity from private suits filed against them in the courts of another state. The 5–4 decision overturned precedent set in a 1979 Supreme Court case,Nevada v. Hall. This was the third time that the litigants had presented their case to the Court,as the Court had already ruled on the issue in 2003 and 2016.
Michael P. Gibbons is a judge of the Nevada Court of Appeals,currently serving as chief judge.
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Nevada on November 3,2020. To vote by mail,registered Nevada voters must ensure each ballot is postmarked by November 3 and received by November 10,2020.
Douglas Wade Herndon is an American lawyer who has served as a justice of the Nevada Supreme Court since 2021.
Patricia Lee is an American lawyer who has served as a justice of the Nevada Supreme Court since 2022.
