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New Historical Society Review is available

November 18, 2024

The Fall/Winter 2024 Review of the California Supreme Court Historical Society is available online and should be arriving in the mail soon for Society members.  (I’m on the Society’s board and authored one of the articles in this Review.)

Here are the contents:
San Quentin Prison’s Birth Story by J. Clark Kelso

“Because of Blood Differences Alone”:  Challenging the Segregation of Native American Students in California by David Ettinger

A Postscript:   The Port Chicago Mutiny by John Caragozian

Reckoning With Our Rights:  The Evolution of Voter Access in California, Part II by Alisa Belinkoff Katz, Izul de la Vega, Saman Haddad, Jeanne Ramin, and Zev Yaroslavsky

Profile:  CSCHS Board Member Justice Teri L. Jackson by Molly Selvin

Legal History Winners Recognized at Virtual Awards Ceremony by Doug Saunders [see Historical Society announces winners of its annual writing competition]

A Darkness Descending on the U.S. Supreme Court — Review of Reading the Constitution by Stephen Breyer, book review by former Justice Joseph Grodin

Justice Edward Panelli, 1931–2024

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