A life and doctrine of Chief Justice David S. Terry in three acts

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Chief Justice David S. Terry and Federalism

A life and doctrine of Chief Justice David S. Terry in three acts

The California Supreme Court Historical Society, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society, the Northern District Historical Society, and the California Historical Society are jointly sponsoring a program relating to David Terry, the notorious Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court in the 1850s and California lawyer in the 1880s. The program illustrates the evolution of Federalism in the wild west of California, using events in David Terry’s life and will be dramatized by various federal and state judges reading from contemporaneous accounts.