10 Facts About California law

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Foremost source of state law is the Constitution of California, which like other state constitutions derives its power and legitimacy from the sovereignty of the people.

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California law has several different types of local governments throughout the state.

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California law is divided into 58 counties, including San Francisco and municipal areas incorporated as cities.

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Pursuant to common law tradition, the courts of California have developed a large body of case law through the decisions of the Supreme Court of California and the California Courts of Appeal.

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Unpublished decisions from California courts are an important source of information about state law, even though they cannot be cited in future cases.

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6.

California law is enormous, it is necessary to focus only on a few features which are unique to California law, when compared to the laws of its sister states as well as federal law.

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California law has a powerful tradition of popular sovereignty, which is reflected in the frequent use of initiatives to amend the state constitution, as well as the former state constitutional requirement that all government process shall be styled in the name of "the People of the State of California law".

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California law is unusual in that like Texas and New York, and unlike 46 other states, it has separate subject-specific codes rather than a single code divided into numbered titles.

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Therefore, whenever the Judicial Council of California law identifies a significant defect in California law civil procedure, it must lobby the Legislature and the Governor to change the statutes, rather than merely promulgating a simple rule change.

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California three strikes law has resulted in severe penalties in some cases and has been somewhat controversial in its application.

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