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Simeon R. Acoba, Jr.
Simeon Rivera Acoba Jr. (born March 11, 1944, in Honolulu, Hawaii) was an Associate Justice of the Hawaii State Supreme Court. Acoba served his first term from May 19, 2000, to May 18, 2010, and was retained by the Judicial Selection Commission to serve a second ten-year term from May 19, 2010, to May 18, 2020. He retired from the court effective February 29, 2014.West's Hawaii Reports, volume 132, page v. Acoba graduated from Farrington High School in 1962. He later attended the University of Hawaii at Manoa. After earning his bachelor's degree at the University of Hawaii, Acoba attended law school at the Northwestern University, Northwestern University School of Law, earning a Juris Doctor degree there in 1969. In 1969, Acoba returned to Honolulu, Hawaii, Honolulu to become a law clerk for Hawaii State Supreme Court Chief Justice William S. Richardson. In 1970, he left this position to become a special assistant to University of Hawaii President Harlan Cleveland. In 1979, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Glossary of mathematical sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
