Legal Opinion
In Re Arnett
California Court of Appeal
Decided February 13, 2007No. F049847PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
THE COURT. *
This is an appeal from the denial of a petition filed by a federal inmate seeking to change his name from Timothy Wayne Arnett to August Damian Kokopelli. “One’s name is a signboard to the world. It is one of the most permanent of possessions; it remains when everything else is lost; it is owned by those who possess nothing else. A name is the only efficient means to describe someone to contemporaries and to posterity. When one dies it is the only part that lives on in the world. [Citation.]” (In re Marriage of Gulsvig (Iowa 1993) 498 N.W.2d 725, 730 (dis. opn. of Snell,…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Pell v. ProcunierSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Qaid Rafeeq Azeez and Abdullah Muhammad v. James W. Fairman, Warden, John E. Wright, Asst. Warden, and A. Dodge, 120 (c.o.)Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1986
- Malik v. BrownCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1995
- Thomas Eldridge Barrett v. Commonwealth of Virginia Arlington Circuit CourtCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1982
- In Re RossCalifornia Supreme Court · 1937
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3Cited by7 opinions
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