Charles C. Bernstein (June 2, 1904 – April 29, 1976) was a justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona from January 5, 1959, to January 4, 1969. He served as chief justice from January 1962 to December 1963, and from January 1967 to December 1967.
6-601: Justice Bernstein may refer to: Charles C. Bernstein (1904–1976), associate justice of the Arizona Supreme Court Richard H. Bernstein (born 1974), associate justice of the Michigan Supreme Court Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Justice Bernstein . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
12-593: A copy of Judge Bernstein's opinion. On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court announced its decision in Brown, that the doctrine of "separate, but equal" was unconstitutional. Bernstein was elected to the Supreme Court of Arizona in 1958, taking office the following January. In 1967, Bernstein and Governor Jack Williams , called a citizens' conference on Arizona courts, which resulted in a permanent organization called The Citizens' Association on Arizona Courts, "whose primary goal
18-637: A national reputation as a juvenile court judge". He ended barefoot desert marches that were used to punish juvenile offenders at Fort Grant, and served on the Awards Jury for the 1968 Freedom Foundation national and school awards. Judge Bernstein also applied the Kent Decree, a source of basic water law in Arizona, to farmland in Maricopa County, and called the first grand jury in Arizona. He served as chairman of
24-572: The Charter Review Committee that organized the charter government reform movement in Phoenix. On May 5, 1954, Bernstein ruled that segregation of African-American students in Phoenix's Wilson Elementary School District was a violation of the 14th Amendment in Heard vs. Davis . At the time, the U.S. Supreme Court was preparing to decide Brown v. Board of Education , and the Supreme Court requested
30-686: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Justice_Bernstein&oldid=1224387090 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Title and name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Charles C. Bernstein Born in St. Louis, Missouri , Bernstein received an LL.B. from Southwestern University in Los Angeles in 1929, and
36-632: Was admitted to the Arizona Bar the following year. Bernstein served as Assistant Attorney General for Arizona from 1937 to 1939, and was a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1940 and 1944. From 1946 to 1948, he was secretary of the Democratic State Central Committee. In 1949 he was appointed as a Superior Court Judge in Arizona, becoming "the first Jewish judge in Arizona history", where he "achieved
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