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I, sec. 10; U.S. Const. amend. XIV. Stogner v. California, 539 U.S. 607 (2003), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, which held that California 's retroactive extension of the statute of limitations for sexual offenses committed against minors was an unconstitutional ex post facto law. [2]
t. e. Proposition 13 (officially named the People's Initiative to Limit Property Taxation) is an amendment of the Constitution of California enacted during 1978, by means of the initiative process, to cap property taxes and limit property reassessments to when the property changes ownership, as well as require a 2/3 majority for tax increases ...
Statute of limitations. A statute of limitations, known in civil law systems as a prescriptive period, is a law passed by a legislative body to set the maximum time after an event within which legal proceedings may be initiated. [ 1][ 2] In most jurisdictions, such periods exist for both criminal law and civil law such as contract law and ...
The Penal Code of California forms the basis for the application of most criminal law, criminal procedure, penal institutions, and the execution of sentences, among other things, in the American state of California. It was originally enacted in 1872 as one of the original four California Codes, and has been substantially [vague] amended and ...
t. e. Taxation of illegal income in the United States arises from the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, enacted by the U.S. Congress in part for the purpose of taxing net income. [ 1] As such, a person's taxable income will generally be subject to the same federal income tax rules, regardless of whether the income was obtained legally or ...
The Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act (Penal Code Section 502) affords protection to individuals, businesses, and governmental agencies from tampering, interference, damage, and unauthorized access to lawfully created computer data and computer systems. It allows for civil action against any person convicted of violating the ...
The bottom line. The statute of limitations on debt protects you from being sued by debt collectors after a certain amount of time has passed. However, this does not mean you no longer owe the ...
A Proposition 218 specialist law firm representing local governments in California concluded that the California Cannabis Coalition case was a narrow decision that "leaves the two-thirds-voter-approval requirement for local taxes in place and makes only a very modest change to earlier understandings of Proposition 218 and the law of initiatives."