Word: culbert
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Dates: during 1982-1982
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...legend that is now coming apart traces back to 1940. That year Governor Culbert Olson appointed both Chief Justice Phil Gibson and Associate Justice Roger Traynor. Gibson was a master administrator, Traynor a brilliant theorist. Together they molded an efficient statewide judiciary led by a supreme court whose decisions were often artful expansions of existing law that created new rights for California's citizens. During its heyday in the 1960s, judges across the country frequently followed California's lead in criminal and consumer rights...