Although California has always been home to many ethnic and cultural groups, the state’s population is reaching new levels of diversity. Demographic projections from the California Department of Finance indicate that by the year 2020, over 60 percent of the state’s residents will identify themselves as non-white. Large influxes of immigrants from Latin America and Asia, coupled with higher birt...

In this article, I aim to detail the legal historical influences at work on behalf of the State's authority to establish, revise,anddisestablish schools anddistricts within its jurisidiction. Local outcriesagainstconsolidation comprisea largepartof thedetail recounted here,but theacts of legislaturesand thejudgments of thecourts have clearly tended to legitimate the State's authority. Occasiona...

The established techniques for legal-for-trade registration of weight values meet the legal requirements, but in praxis they show serious disadvantages. We report on the first implementation of intrinsically legal-for-trade objects, namely weight values signed by the scale, that is accepted by the approval authority. The strict requirements from both the approvaland the verification-authority a...

parents’ authority in support and education of theirchildren should be used only to protect their best interests.therefore if protection of child’s safety, health oreducation so requires, this authority may be limited orwithdrawn from the parents. in imami jurisprudence,iranian law and french law, welfare of the child is themain factor governing the support and education of thechild. each of th...