Guide to the California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc. records M0750
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Record Group 1. Board of Directors circa 1966-1994
Series 1. Correspondence
Correspondence; includes letters and memos to/from State Bar of California, Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO); Directors James Lorenz, Cruz Reynoso, Marty Glick; law firms, legal aid organizations, Daniel Luevano, others; also reports and clippings included with correspondence (19 folders) 1966-1973
Series 2. Meeting and Conference Files
Advisory Committees; includes correspondence and meeting materials for regional office advisory committees (18 folders) 1986-1987
Meetings; includes agendas, minutes, reports, memos, supporting materials (27 folders) 1966-1970
Meetings; includes agendas, minutes, reports, memos, supporting materials (5 folders) 1971
Meetings; includes agendas, minutes, reports, memos, supporting materials (12 folders) 1971
Meetings; includes agendas, minutes, reports, memos, supporting materials (21 folders) 1972-1973
Meetings; includes minutes; also sample packet for new Board members (6 folders) 1972-1973
Meetings; includes agendas, minutes, reports, memos, supporting materials (15 folders) 1974-1976
Meetings; includes agendas, minutes, reports, memos, supporting materials (6 folders) 1976-1977, 1980
Meetings; includes agendas, minutes, reports, memos, supporting materials (16 folders) 1976-1980
Meetings; includes agendas, minutes, memos, reports, supporting materials (12 folders) 1978, 1980-1981
Meetings; includes agendas, minutes, memos, reports, supporting materials (9 folders) 1982-1983
Meetings; includes agendas, minutes, reports, memos, supporting materials (12 folders) 1983-1985
Meetings; includes agendas, minutes, memos, reports, supporting materials (11 folders) 1985-1986
Meetings; includes agendas, minutes, reports, memos, supporting materials (7 folders) 1980, 1987-1988
Meetings; includes agendas, minutes, memos, reports, supporting materials (20 folders) 1988-1994
Meeting minutes (8 folders) 1972-1973, 1976-1979
Meeting minutes (9 folders) circa 1972-1986
Meeting minutes and related files (16 folders) 1973-1982
Priorities Conference materials; includes Board training material (4 folders) circa 1969-1985
Series 3. Mixed Material
Mixed material; includes Board meeting attendance sign-in sheet; travel and training information; miscellaneous, loose materials related to funding, costs, administration, program update sheets (11 folders) circa 1988-1990
Mixed material; includes meeting agendas, minutes, reports, clippings; also information on Board members (27 folders) circa 1982-1987
Mixed material; includes correspondence, bylaws, and rosters (14 folders) 1979-1986
Mixed material; includes orientation packets, responsibility and structure information, nominations, resolutions, and related material (24 folders) circa 1977-1983
Mixed material; includes bylaws, committees, memos, correspondence, and other materials (10 folders) 1971, 1974, 1979, 1985
Mixed material; includes LSC news clippings, board clippings, and board rosters (6 folders) 1982-83, 1987, 1989
Series 1. Executive Directors 1966-1990
Subseries 1. James D. Lorenz, Jr. 1966-1969
Alphabetical files; includes correspondence, notes, and other material (27 folders) circa 1969
Alphabetical files; includes correspondence, notes, and other material (12 folders) circa 1969
Subseries 2. Cruz Reynoso 1969-1972
CRLA v. Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO); includes OEO reports, evaluations,; also pleadings, refunding hearings, CRLA’s answer to the Uhler Report, related materials (30 folders) circa 1968-1972
Unions, clippings (8 folders) circa 1966-1967
Post-CRLA career; includes correspondence and other material 1986, 1988
Subseries 3. Martin R. Glick 1972-1974
Martin Glick papers; includes material on refunding and the National Health Law Program. 1974
Subseries 4. Richard Baca 1974-1976
Richard Baca papers; includes memos and correspondence on various topics. 1974-1977
Subseries 5. Alberto Saldamando 1976-1984
Attorney and legal cost subject files; includes attorney salary scale; ULWC contract negotiations; Serrano v. Priest; legal cost studies; Private Bar involvement files, (10 folders) 1977-1983
Correspondence; correspondents include members of other legal services programs, CRLA central and regional office staff; topics include the ULWC strike in 1978. (17 folders) 1977-1984
Meeting packets: mostly Board of Directors meetings; also Directing Attorneys meetings, other committee meetings; includes minutes, agendas, related memos, reports, clippings, notes (19 folders) 1977-1980
Mixed administrative and subject files; includes Migrant Legal Action Program (MLAP) workplans and related materials, LSC funding materials; also staff, Directing Attorney, and litigation meeting materials (25 folders) circa 1977-1980
Mixed administrative files; includes CRLA office merger files; Cooperative Legal Services Center (CLSC) termination; budget and cost studies; LSC regulations (9 folders) 1977-1978
Mixed administrative and subject files; includes Priorities Conference materials, budget files, miscellaneous project proposals, research files, and articles (28 folders) 1977-1980
Mixed administrative files; includes memos and correspondence on the CRLA deficit and other topics. 1978, 1981-1984
Mixed materials; includes correspondence, notes, memos, grant files, the CRLA Foundation, retrenchment, the organization's structure, and task forces such as labor and education (31 folders) 1975, 1978, 1980-1984
Mixed materials; includes correspondence, memos, and other documents related to the housing, education, and labor task forces (6 folders) 1981-1985
Mixed materials; includes miscellaneous papers and correspondence, memos, reports, and other material on the proposed "alien registry" (7 folders) 1981-1983
Mixed materials; includes correspondence, meeting material and notes, litigation and subject files, financial reports, miscellaneous loose files (32 folders) 1976-1983
Mixed meeting files; includes Asilomar and priority conferences, litigation and Board meetings; migrant, advisory, and finance committees; also miscellaneous meeting material and related reports (17 folders) 1979-1980
Mixed meeting and subject files; includes Project Advisory Group (PAG) files, CRLA structure committee, task force, and other meeting materials; also Reclamation Act research (12 folders) 1977-1978
Mixed subject and legal program files; includes research on police stops of undocumented immigrants; Senior Citizens Law Program (SCLP); also Seniors United v. LSC (8 folders) 1977-1978
Subject files; includes migrant unit issues, case load statistics, other topics (13 folders) circa 1980-1981
Subject files; includes minority support project, White House consultation with farmworkers (6 folders) circa 1980-1981
Subject files; miscellaneous, loose files; includes memos, reports, clippings (17 folders) circa 1980-1981
Tom Miller papers; includes correspondence, memoranda, and other material related to Miller's work as deputy director of CRLA (4 folders) 1978-1979
Subseries 6. José R. Padilla 1984-
Mixed materials; administrative files, memos, reports, notes, clippings, outreach materials (28 folders) circa 1983-1986
Mixed materials; includes correpsondence, memos, and other material (4 folders) 1981-1985, 1990
Mixed materials; includes correspondence, memos, reports, and other material (11 folders) 1985-1986
Mixed materials; includes correspondence, memos, reports, and other material (17 folders) 1986-1987
Series 2. General Counsel - Ralph S. Abascal 1970-1996
Agricultural issues; includes correspondence, memos, reports, research, and other materials related to issues such as pesticide use, agricultural mechanization, and related matters (17 folders) circa 1970-1980
Agricultural issues; includes notes, correspondence, and other information on California Agrarian Action Project (CAAP) v. UC Regents; also correspondence, notes, and a government report on pesticide use (16 folders) 1980-1983, 1985
Biographical papers; includes periodical features, as well as publications related to the perception of lawyers and the law (4 folders) 1987-1991
Environmental issues; includes documents from his tenure at Hastings as well as various conferences, and legal topics such as: zoning and minorities, national environmental policies issues, pollution, agricultural workers health and safety issues, women and children environmental risks, and toxic dumping; file types include pleadings, notes, trial excerpts, publications, and correspondence (17 folders) circa 1990-1995
Farmworker issues; includes files mostly regarding farmworkers' rights, labor issues, minorities, poverty and housing, banking, and dump locations; includes research, publications, clippings, memos and correspondence, corporate documents of the national legal counsel for the poor(17 folders). circa 1990-1995
LSC (Legal Services Corporation) refunding files; includes research, reports, articles, pleadings, correspondence, memos, notes relating to the reauthorization of funding and related CRLA survival issues (24 folders) circa 1978-1985
LSC (Legal Services Corporation) refunding files; includes research, reports, articles, pleadings, correspondence, memos, notes relating to the reauthorization of funding, related legislation, and CRLA survival issues (27 folders) circa 1978-1985
LSC (Legal Services Corporation) refunding files; includes research, reports, articles, pleadings, correspondence, memos, notes relating to the reauthorization of funding and related CRLA survival issues (11 folders) circa 1978-1985
LSC (Legal Services Corporation) working files; includes mostly correspondence regarding grant funding between CRLA and: LSC, Center for Law and Social Policy, and other legal agencies; also includes LSC monitoring report (1986), LSC's request for production of documents, and the Project Advisory Group's "Washington Reports" (16 folders) 1976, circa 1980-1990
LSC (Legal Services Corporation) working files; includes pleadings from cases files against LSC, reports, publications, and opinions regarding LSC, legislative research regarding grant funding, and a report by the Comptroller General (16 folders) circa 1977-1990
LSC (Legal Services Corporation) working files; includes Martin Holt's report on migrant workers' distribution, their research, and various responses to the 1987 report, as well as LSC's 1990 legislative battles, LSC Reauthorization Act, which includes correspondence, senate bill critiques, memos, clippings, and a draft monitoring report from 1985 (20 folders) circa 1985-1995
LSC (Legal Services Corporation) working files; includes clippings regarding funding conflict and Abascal's grant proposal conditions files (5 folders) circa 1990
Pesticides; includes files related to pesticides and OSHA guidelines, as well as reproductive rights for women; includes pleadings from the Commission to Defend Reproductive Rights and Comison Femenil Mexicana v. Kizer (State Health Dept.), Chemical Manufacturers Association v. California Health & Welfare Agency, Ixta v. Rinaldi (CA v. OSHA lawsuit), and information on RICO from the California Bar Association, (28 folders) circa 1990-1995
Mixed case files; includes RSA v. Reagan pleadings, TRLA v. LSC research documents, ULWC (United Legal Workers of California) strike against CRLA working files, and other LSC papers regarding refund of money (5 folders) circa 1985-1995
Mixed files; includes Abascal v. Crocker National Bank; pleadings, correspondence, notes; Robert H. Bork nomination file; loose clippings and articles (13 folders) circa 1987
Mixed files; includes correspondence, memos, reports, pleadings, subject files, research, notes, clippings and articles; Barr v. Catholic Social Services; Kutak-Dodds Prize; material related to mechanization case, including typescript speech (29 folders) circa 1969-1996
Series 3. Litigation Directors 1973-1996
Advanced Litigation Directors conference materials (1 folder) 1984
Directing Attorneys litigation meetings; includes correspondence, meeting minutes, memos, and lists relating to directing attorneys and litigation activities (15 folders) 1976-77, 1979-81, 1983-84
Directing Attorney/Directing Legal Secretary meeting material (4 folders) 1990-1993
Directing Attorney Orientation; includes training materials related to special topics, including funding, supervision, case selection and management, priorities and task forces (18 folders) circa 1978-1979
Richard Gonzales files; includes correspondence, chronological files, administrative and subject files (33 folders) 1973-1976
Richard Pearl files; includes correspondence, memos, notes, meeting minutes, and other materials related to Pearl's term as Director of Litigation; subjects include hiring employees and interns, the Priorities Conference, and the Job Creation Task Force (16 folders) 1977-1978
Richard Pearl files; includes correspondence, minutes, reports, and articles related to Pearl's activities in Directing Attorneys' meetings and the farm labor, education, housing, and job creation task forces (15 folders) 1977-1978
Record Group 3. Administrative and Financial files circa 1966-1994
Series 1. General Administrative and Financial Records
Accrual reports; also includes budget deficit information 1986
Administrative records; includes evaluations, budgets, correspondence, memos, reports, and training materials; subjects include evaluations of branch offices and merger of CRLA with regional legal aid offices (22 folders) 1976-1982
Administrative records; includes correspondence, memos, and other material relating to central administration, alternate structure committee, food law, general counsel, library, litigation unit, migrant unit, reclamation unit, regional counsel, senior citizens, and CRLA branch offices (26 folders) 1977-1982
Administrative records; includes chronological files and LSC monitoring material related to the CRLA's internal operations (10 folders) 1985-1986
Administrative records; includes CRLA by-laws, regional office assessments, grievance procedure, and basic unit litigation report from 1988 (4 folders) circa 1988
Administrative records; includes job announcements, seniority lists, and worksheets (5 folders) 1982-1990
Administrative records; includes LSC monitoring material related to the CRLA's internal operations PBI (private bar involvement) files, regional counsel applicants, and narrative reports (13 folders) circa 1983-1987
Administrative records; includes manuals, contact lists, correspondence, notes, and memos related to CRLA's work with local legal aid societies, responsibilities of the office administrator and assistant, and the day-to-day workings of the central CRLA office (16 folders) 1973-1977
Administrative records; includes correspondence, memos, contracts, insurance policies, and statistical reports related to the day-to-day functions of the CRLA central office (24 folders) 1979-1986
Administrative records; includes correspondence, memos, reports, and audits related to the day-to-day functions of the CRLA central office (8 folders) 1979-1985
Administrative records; includes correspondence, memos, meeting minutes, notes, job descriptions, salary scales, personnel manuals, and other material (25 folders) 1978-1986
Administrative records; includes correspondence, memos, policies, seniority lists, and personnel manuals; topics include the education and health task forces, ULWC policies and procedures, and unemployment compensation (23 folders) 1976-1986
Administrative records; includes memos, correspondence, leases, manuals, and other material relating to the daily functions of the CRLA central office; topics include computer information, job announcements, training, and office procedures (14 folders) 1976-80, 1982-86, 1989
Administrative and financial records; includes correspondence, evaluations, memos, budgets, and reports relating to employment matters (job descriptions, employee classifications and salary, evaluation and training, seniority lists), caseload management, CRLA history, alternative structure committee, finances, equipment disposal, budget, and conferences attended by CRLA staff (27 folders) 1970-1990
Administrative and financial records; includes memos, correspondence, reports, and other material related to staff finance and budget committee, smoking policy, two-bar rule waivers, summer work study interns, transcript reimbursement funds, the Reginald Heber Smith Fellowship Program, and telephone delivery (15 folders) 1980-1984
Administrative and financial records; includes memos, correspondence, training material, and manuals relating to the daily functions of the CRLA central office; topics include the budget, work study programs, and eathquake safety (20 folders) 1982-1988
Administrative and financial records; includes memos, budgets, correspondence, manuals, statistics, forms, and other materials relating to the daily functions of the CRLA central office; topics include budgets, field visits, operations, personnel, and office management (18 folders) 1978-1979, 1982-1985
Administrative and financial records; includes fiscal reports, office memos, forms, and statistical reports related to the CRLA's internal operations; also includes CRLA Operations Manual (1973) and new attorney training and orientation material (1973-1974) (33 folders) 1971-1974
Administrative and financial records; includes budgets, memos, correspondence, reports, complaints, training, polls, and other information relating to the daily functions of the CRLA central office; topics include budget deficits, training, social security, retrenchment, and pest control (21 folders) 1971-1981, 1985-88
Administrative and financial records; includes audits, memos, correspondence, reports, training information, and other materials relating to the daily functions of the CRLA central office (17 folders) 1985-1988
Attorney fees; includes notes, memos, reports, timesheets (7 folders) 1984-1986
Financial reports (basic and migrant); includes memos, notes 1982-1986
Financial reports (basic and migrant); includes memos, notes, budget planning, deficit information, LSC refunding applications, library unit budget (12 folders) 1984-1987
Series 2. Chronological Office Files
Chronological office files; includes memos, correspondence, and other material related to the daily functions of the CRLA central office (42 folders) 1981-1984
Chronological office files; includes memos, correspondence, and other material related to the daily functions of the CRLA central office, as well as correspondence from administrators and accountants (8 folders) 1981, 1984-85
Chronological office files; includes correspondence, memos, contracts, and applications relating to the day-to-day functions of the CRLA central office (19 folders) 1985-1986
Chronological office files; includes memos, correspondence, and other material related to the daily functions of the CRLA central office (9 folders) 1990
Series 3. Evaluation Files
Employee evaluations and California Community Workers Union negotiations; includes master forms, memos, notes, and contracts (18 folders) 1977-79, 1981-83
Evaluation materials; forms and training materials for evaluating attorneys, staff, cases, and programs (7 folders) circa 1977-1978
Series 4. Meetings
Executive meetings; includes agendas, memos, notes, reports; also Appeals Committee, Nominating Committee, and miscellaneous meeting material (14 folders) 1977-1980
Finance Committee meetings; includes agendas, memos, notes, reports (12 folders) 1978-1980
Series 5. Barbara Rasmussen Files
Barbara Rasmussen subject files; includes correspondence, memos, reports, news articles, testimony, and other materials related to CRLA activities (44 folders) 1966-1972
Barbara Rasmussen subject files; includes correspondence, memos, reports, news articles, testimony, and other materials related to CRLA activities (26 folders) 1966-1972
Series 6. Regional Offices
El Centro files; includes clippings, notes, memos, contracts, miscellaneous files (10 folders) 1988-1998
Stanislaus Legal Aid; includes materials related to the day-to-day running of the Stanislaus Legal Aid office, such as invoices, tax returns, receipts, newsletters, correspondence, memos, grant applications, and other material (50 folders) 1974-1977
Stanislaus Legal Aid; includes materials related to the day-to-day running of the Stanislaus Legal Aid office, such as invoices, receipts, and financial statements (42 folders) 1974-1977
Series 7. United Legal Workers of California (ULWC)
United Legal Workers of California (ULWC) contracts; includes contract negotiations and correspondence, contract proposals, notes, budget worksheets, drafts, union bargaining materials (10 folders) 1980-1982
United Legal Workers of California (ULWC) and California Community Workers Union negotiations; includes memoranda, correspondence, notes, and contracts, as well as news clippings and other material related to the ULWC strike in 1978 (17 folders) 1977-78, 1980, 1982-83
Series 8. Miscellaneous Material
Miscellaneous material; notes, memos, clippings, pleadings (21 folders) circa 1983-1989
Miscellaneous material; includes memos regarding training, standards, and performance monitoring; also publication relating to Latino issues (2 folders) 1994
Record Group 4. Communication and Development files circa 1966-1996
Series 1. CRLA Foundation (CRLAF)
CRLA Foundation (CRLAF) articles of incorporation and bylaws (1 folder) 1981
CRLA Foundation (CRLAF); includes billing and contract information for grants administered by the CRLA Foundation (22 folders) 1982-1987
CRLA Foundation (CRLAF); includes memoranda, correspondence, and contracts related to the daily functions of the CRLAF; also includes records related to the Rural Justice Foundation, a precursor to the CRLAF (26 folders) 1978-1980, 1986, 1991
CRLA Foundation (CRLAF); includes memoranda, correspondence, and other material related to the daily functions of the CRLAF (3 folders) 1983-84
Series 2. Fundraising and Grant Files
Fundraising and publicity materials; includes newsclippings, memos, correspondence, budgets, notes, and CRLA publications on a range of topics including CRLAF board meetings, fundraising, grants, support and recognition events, and requests for publications (16 folders) 1966, 1981-83, 1985-86, 1988-1990
Grant materials; includes proposals, correspondence, budgets, reports, and other material related to grants from foundations such as the Episcopal Coalition for Human Needs, the Poverello Fund, and the Walter S. Johnson Foundation (66 folders) 1982-1989
Grant materials; includes proposals, correspondence, budgets, reports, and other material related to grants from foundations such as the MacArthur Foundation and National Rural Fellows (36 folders) 1982-1989
Grant materials; includes proposals, correspondence, budgets, reports, and other material related to grants from the Needmor Fund and Northern California Grantmakers (10 folders) 1984
Miscellaneous material; includes clippings; fund raising conference; San Joaquin Valley healthcare report (3 folders) circa 1990-1996
Series 3. News Clippings
News clippings; mostly related to California Welfare reform and Reagan (11 folders) 1970-1971
News clippings; includes clippings from California papers containing mention of the CRLA and its work (13 folders) 1971-1972
News clippings; mostly related to California Welfare reform (42 folders) 1971-1975
News clippings; photocopies of news clippings about to CRLA activities and related topics (6 folders) circa 1979-1981
News clippings; photocopies of news clippings relating to legal services compiled by the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) (21 folders) circa 1981-1982
News clippings; photocopies of news clippings relating to legal services compiled by the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) (6 folders) circa 1981-1982
News clippings; photocopies of news clippings about CRLA activities and related topics (12 folders) circa 1982
News clippings 1976, 1985
News clippings and press releases; includes press releases issued by CRLA as well as clippings of articles mentioning CRLA (7 folders) 1967-1970
News clippings and summaries; photocopies of news clippings about to CRLA activities and related topics; includes articles and reports ( 4 folders) circa 1968-1980
News clippings; related to CRLA activities and priority areas (12 folders) 1979-1980
News clippings; related to CRLA activities and priority areas (16 folders) 1983-1987
Series 4. Publications
Publications; includes Poverty and Social Reform: OEO, Legal Services and the Case of California Rural Legal Assistance (Don R. Broyles) (2 folders)
Publications; includes drafts and offprints of “California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA): Survival of a Poverty Law Practice” by Michael Bennett and Cruz Reynoso, as well as related correspondence; offprint of Political Interference with Publicly Funded Lawyers: The CRLA Controversy and the Future of Legal Services" by Jerome B. Falk, Jr. and Stuart R. Pollak; CRLA publication Rural California: Hope Amidst Poverty; and publications from other organizations that relate to CRLA work (8 folders). 1971-1973
Publications; includes articles written by CRLA staff and discussion about a CRLA newsletter 1981, 1985-86
Publications from other organizations 1974-1977
Series 5. Support Letters (Reagan Veto)
Support letters (Reagan veto); includes refunding support letters from legal service organizations, law schools, politicians, health, welfare, and labor organizations, religious groups, attorneys, judiciary, and others, mostly to Governor Reagan, President Nixon, and OEO Directors, Donald Rumsfeld and Frank Carlucci; also communication with CRLA regarding support efforts (34 folders) circa 1967-1971
Support letters (Reagan veto); includes refunding support letters from legal service organizations, law schools, politicians, health, welfare, and labor organizations, religious groups, attorneys, judiciary, and others, mostly to Governor Reagan, President Nixon, and OEO Directors, Donald Rumsfeld and Frank Carlucci; also communication with CRLA regarding support efforts (36 folders) circa 1970-1971
Support letters (Reagan veto); includes refunding support letters from legal service organizations, law schools, politicians, health, welfare, and labor organizations, religious groups, attorneys, judiciary, and others, mostly to Governor Reagan, President Nixon, and OEO Directors, Donald Rumsfeld and Frank Carlucci; also communication with CRLA regarding support efforts (9 folders) circa 1970-1971
Record Group 5. Advocacy circa 1967-1998
Series 1. Individual Attorney Files
Stephen Rosenbaum, CRLA history files; includes mostly "Lit-Directors" conference files and clippings (29 folders) circa 1982-1992
Stephen Rosenbaum, working files on the IRCA; includes promotional material, amendments, and correspondence related to the IRCA and immigration (10 folders) circa 1980-1990
Stephen Rosenbaum, working files on Special Agricultural Workers (SAWS) and immigration; includes SAWS and RAWS (Replacement Agricultural Workers) correspondence, conference materials, alien eligibility research, and selective service documents (13 folders) circa 1980-1990
Stephen Rosenbaum, working files; includes immigration research materials, correspondence, clippings, committee minutes; topics include naturalization, eligibility, INS proposals, day laborers, and compliance (32 folders) circa 1980-1990
Stephen Rosenbaum, working files on DeHaro v. City of St. Helena (Calif.), and alienage as it relates to labor issues; record types include research documents, correspondence, pleadings, and clippings (10 folders) circa 1980-1990
Stephen Rosenbaum, working files; includes pleadings from various cases, such as: Catholic Social Services (CSS) v. Meese, various class action approval forms, United Farm Workers (UFW) v. INS, and the appeals documents from Zambrano v. INS (7 folders) circa 1980-1990
Stephen Rosenbaum, working files, administrative and correspondence; includes training materials, poverty-law seminar papers, outreach, and research on negotiations and attorney's fees, and correspondence (12 folders) circa 1980-1990
Tony White, administrative and LSC files (Legal Service Corporation); includes LSC issues and regulations files, monitoring, annual progress reports, procedures and instructions files, district office notes and guidelines, intake directions, and general research (26 folders) circa 1984-1990
Tony White, working files, alphabetically arranged A-B; topics include action board documents, attorneys' fees, and AWPA through bankruptcy, breach of fiduciary duty, and Brown v. The Artery Organization; record types include pleadings, memos, clippings, and research documents (38 folders) circa 1980-1995
Tony White, working files, alphabetically arranged A-C; topics include access to public records research through CHAIN (California housing action and information network) documents; record types include clippings, memos and correspondence, pleadings, and research (45 folders) circa 1980-1995
Tony White, working files, alphabetically arranged B-C; topics include CHFA and child discrimination (4 folders) circa 1980-1995
Tony White, working files, alphabetically arranged and includes topics that start with the letter C; topics include California farm labor through CEQA updates and CFR federal preferences (14 folders) circa 1980-1995
Tony White, working files, alphabetically arranged C-D; topics include claim of exemption through disclosure of social services; record types include research, memos, correspondence, pleadings, and clippings (49 folders) circa 1980-1995
Tony White, working files, alphabetically arranged D-E; topics include displacement, DMV records, discrimination, EDD, employee housing and rights, equal protection, ethics, and eviction; record types include pleadings, correspondence, research documents, and clippings (43 folders)
Tony White, working files, alphabetically arranged E-F; topics include eviction issues through First Amendment issues; record types include research documents, memos, pleadings, clippings, motions, injunctions, and correspondence (55 folders) circa 1980-1995
Tony White, working files, alphabetically arranged F-H; topics include Gilroy development, good cause evictions, growth management, and habitability; record types include, mostly pleadings, research documents, correspondence and notes (40 folders) circa 1985-1990
Tony White, working files, alphabetically arranged and includes topics that start with the letter H; topics mostly include HUS housing, and housing issues; includes pleadings, research, memos and related correspondence (24 folders) circa 1981-1994
Tony White, working files, alphabetically arranged and includes topics that start with the letter H; topics mostly include housing issues and homelessness; also includes public health and handicapped issues research; record types include inter-office memos, pleadings, clippings, correspondence, and research (51folders) circa 1985-1994
Tony White, working files, alphabetically arranged I-L; topics include illegal leases, implied rights, labor issues, and late fees; record types include research documents, correspondence, pleadings, and notes (54 folders) circa 1985-1995
Tony White, working files, alphabetically arranged and includes topics that start with the letter P; topics mostly include public housing; record types include pleadings, correspondence, research documents, and clippings (19 folders) circa 1981-1991
Tony White, working files, alphabetically arranged R-S; topics include retaliation and rental research through Santa Clara County and San Francisco evictions (and Section 8 issues)(38 folders) circa 1980-1995
Tony White, mixed case files; includes the Christopher Ranch case, McFarland Water, Rancho Salinas, and housing cases; record types include pleadings, correspondence, notes, and research (16 folders) circa 1985-1990
Tony White, mixed files; includes memos, notes, clippings (1 folder) circa 1981-1984
Series 2. Legislation
Auto Insurance legislation; Senate and Assembly Bills related to motor vehicle reparations; includes copies of bills and amended bills, reports, notes, memos, correspondence (8 folders) 1973-1974
ACR 74; correspondence and notes concerning legislation that required a comprehensive study to determine the language needs of non-English speaking citizens at every step of the judicial process 1973-1975
Consumer rights legislation; topics include UCCC (United Consumer Credit Code) and consumer credit warranties (50 folders) circa 1970-1975
Consumer rights legislation; includes Assembly and Senate Bills (27 folders) 1972-1974
Consumer rights legislation; includes Assembly Bills (47 folders) 1973-1974
Consumer rights legislation; includes United Consumer Credit Code (UCCC), and model Consumer Credit Act files and redrafts, copies of Senate Bills, correspondence, and research (35 folders) circa 1972-1975
Consumer rights legislation; includes notes and correspondence on proposed legislation on credit life and disability, consumer finance, and finance companies (42 folders) circa 1975
Consumer rights legislation; includes notes and correspondence on credit reporting (5 folders) circa 1975
Consumer rights legislation; includes Senate and Assembly Bills (66 folders) 1971-1980
Consumer rights legislation; includes United Consumer Credit Code (UCCC), and other miscellaneous consumer related Senate Bills (44 folders) circa 1970-1980
Correspondence; includes miscellaneous incoming and outgoing letters and memos regarding legislation and civil rights issues (10 folders) circa 1979-1980, 1981
Correspondence; includes regarding housing issues in legislation (5 folders) circa 1979-1980
Education legislation; includes Assembly bills (37 folders) 1972
Education legislation; includes Assembly and Senate Bills (80 folders) circa 1970-1975
Education legislation; includes Assembly and Senate bills (48 folders) circa 1970-1979
Education legislation; includes Assembly and Senate bills (65 folders) circa 1970-1979
Education legislation; includes Assembly and Senate bills (109 folders) circa 1970-1979
Education legislation; includes Assembly and Senate bills (41 folders) circa 1970-1979
Employment legislation; includes Senate bills (17 folders) 1973-1974
Employment legislation; includes Senate and Assembly Bills (31 folders) circa 1973-1985
Ex-offender legislation; includes Assembly and Senate Bills (26 folders) circa 1970-1975
Finance legislation; includes topics such as financial responsibility and no fault insurance (43 folders) circa 1970-1980
Health issues legislation; includes Senate and Assembly bills (46 folders) circa 1978
Healthcare legislation; includes notes, reports, correspondence, and other material related to the state of California's efforts to establish universal health care (4 folders) circa 1990
Legislation (numerical); includes Assembly bills: AB48-AB2699 (54 folders) 1971
Legislation (numerical); includes Assembly and Senate bills: AB2719-AB3057; ACA39-AJR125; SB10-SB1627; SCR124 (54 folders) 1971
Legislation (numerical); includes Senate bills: SB26-SB1454, SCR4; also legislation related to minority representation on juries (41 folders) 1972
Legislation (numerical); includes Assembly and Senate bills: AB101-AB3770; ACA13-ACA60; AJR89; ACR192; SB80-SB2246; SJR9; SCA3 (66 folders) 1973-1974
Mixed legislation; includes Assembly Bills 9-234, Assembly Constitutional Amendment 45, and Senate Bills 1493, 1419, and 1420; includes notes and correspondence on proposed legislation on labor relations, prisons, insurance, taxation, civil servants, real estate, housing, MediCal, courts, and other matters (56 folders) circa 1972
Mixed legislation; includes Assembly Bills 510-891; also notes and correspondence on proposed legislation involving insurance, contracts, courts, zoning, real estate, and other matters (47 folders) 1979-1980
Mixed legislation; includes Assembly Bills 910-2179; also notes and correspondence on proposed legislation on insurance, real estate, courts, land use, elections, development, taxation, contracts, public employment, housing, cities, and other matters (66 folders) 1979-1980
Mixed legislation; includes notes and correspondence on proposed assembly and senate bills on migrant education, workmen's comp, child care, voter registration, job training, labor relations, and other matters (75 folders) circa 1980
Mixed legislation; includes Assembly Bills 2200-2753; also notes and correspondence on proposed legislation on real estate, insurance, courts, and other matters (28 folders) 1979-1980
Mixed legislation; includes Assembly Bills 2784-3439, Assembly Constitutional Amendments 5-78, and other assembly legislation; also notes and correspondence on proposed legislation, constitutional amendments, resolution, and other types of legislation on real estate, elections, housing, loans, contracts, insurance, taxation, energy conservation, and other matters (51 folders) 1979-1980
Mixed legislation; includes Assembly Bills 44-2856, Assembly Constitutional Amendments 5-54, Assembly Concurrent Resolutions 23-44, Assembly Joint Resolutions 8-31, House Resolution 13, and Senate Bills 22-584; includes notes and correspondence on proposed legislation on benefits eligibility, housing, child care, welfare eligibility, English as the official state language, the voting rights act, bilingual education, and other matters (100 folders)
Mixed legislation; includes Assembly Bills 2254-3830, Assembly Constitutional Amendments 68 and 84, and Assembly Concurrent Resolutions 33, 61, and 100; includes notes and correspondence on proposed legislation on unemployment, courts, insurance, housing, discrimination, real estate, and other matters (94 folders)
Mixed legislation; includes Senate Bills 2-1158, other state legislation; includes notes and correspondence on proposed legislation on education, budget, housing, labor, and other matters (35 folders)
Mixed legislation; includes Senate Bills 1026-2037, Senate Constitutional Amendments 4-44, Senate Concurrent Resolutions 26, 29, 58, and Department of Housing and Community Development Budget; includes notes and correspondence on proposed legislation and constitutional amendments regarding real estate, contracts, courts, standards of affordable housing, loan interest rates, and other matters (70 folders) 1979-1980
Mixed legislation; includes Senate Bills 9-997; also notes and correspondence on proposed legislation on domestic violence, legal proceedings, insurance, courts, real estate, public transportation, and other matters (75 folders) 1979-1980
Mixed legislation; Senate Bills 1309-2224, Senate Constitutional Amendments 40-66, Senate Concurrent Resolution 75; also notes and correspondence on proposed legislation on courts, the budget, unemployment compensation, insurance, real estate, housing, welfare, and other matters (67 folders) 1978-1979
Mixed legislation; includes 1979 legislative report, Assembly and Senate session material (4 folders) 1979-1982
Mixed legislation; includes Assembly Bills (49 folders) circa 1977-1978
Mixed legislation; includes Senate Bills (66 folders) circa 1977-1978
Mixed legislation; includes Assembly Bills from the 1975-1976 session, AB 1-899, a large portion of records dealing with the right to vote, labor commissioners' enforcement of labor laws, and employer practices regarding arrest records (30 folders) 1975-1976
Mixed legislation; includes Assembly Bills from the 1977-1978 session, AB 1000-2199 (54 folders) 1977-1978
Mixed legislation; includes Senate Bills from the 1975-1976 sessions, SB 1700-2172 (15 folders) 1975-1976
Mixed legislation; includes Assembly Bills from the 1975-1976 session, AB 901-4502 (42 folders) 1975-1976
Mixed legislation; includes Assembly Bills from the 1979-1980 session, AB 1-499 (40 folders) 1979-1980
Mixed legislation; includes notes and correspondence on Senate Bills, Senate Constitutional Amendments, Senate Resolutions, Assembly Bills, and general legislative correspondence (24 folders) 1978-1980
Research; includes employment materials regarding civil rights, Proposition 10, and other related topics (33 folders) 1973-1976
Research; includes civil rights and voting rights legislation; record types include copies of bills, clippings, publications, and correspondence (28 folders) 1975-1976
Voting rights legislation; Ex-Felon Voting Rights (Proposition 10); includes voting pamphlets, census information, campaigning materials, committee information, voting records in the Senate and Assembly, prosecution statistics, press releases, notes, memorandums, correspndence; also includes related cases, Ramirez v. Brown, Richardson v. Ramirez (32 folders) 1964-1974
Series 3. Litigation
California Agrarian Action Project (CAAP) v. UC Regents; includes pleadings; also reports, policy research, clippings, articles, correspondence (24 folders) 1977-1981
California Agrarian Action Project (CAAP) v. UC Regents, plaintiffs' exhibits; includes exhibits 256, 257, 345-569, and volume one and two of the status of proof (22 folders)
California Agrarian Action Project (CAAP) v. UC Regents, plaintiffs' exhibits 1100-1373.2, 1400-1480.83, 1600-1697, 1700-2521, 2700-3825 (16 folders)
California Agrarian Action Project (CAAP) v. UC Regents; pleadings, transcripts, exhibits (34 folders) circa 1985
California Agrarian Action Project (CAAP) v. UC Regents; includes pleadings, transcripts, exhibits (10 folders) circa 1985
CRLA litigation case summaries and docket notebooks (5 folders) 1967-1979
CRLA v. Superior Court of California for the County of Santa Barbara; includes exhibits in support of petition, petition for writ of mandate, application for leave to file amicus curiae brief in support of petition (4 folders) 1992
CRLA v. Superior Court of California for the County of Santa Barbara; includes Court of Appeals pleadings (5 folders) 1992-1994
Castro v. California; pleadings (4 folders) circa 1968-1969
Catholic Social Services (CSS) v. Meese (Barr), depositions; also includes exhibits used during the depositions and reporters' transcripts of judge's decision (23 folders) c. 1987-1992
Committee for Full Employment (CFE) v. Blumenthal, Secretary of Treasury; includes pleadings, opening brief, working file, clippings, as well as, notes, oral arguments, and research on revenue sharing (17 folders) circa 1977
Education litgation: bilingual regulations and financing; including Mexican-American Council on Education v. Board of Education for United School District No. 457, Larry P. v. Riles, Office of the Sacramento County Superintendent od Schools v. State of California; includes preliminary statements, answers, orders, complaints, reports, news articles, correspondence (19 folders) 1978-1985
Espindola v. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS); pleadings; also Naranjo-Aguilera v. INS and Velasquez v. Ackerman (12 folders) 1992-1993
Exhibits for unidentified mechanization case (14 folders)
Famous CRLA cases historical file; includes notes, cases summaries, and docket sheets on famous and compelling cases (8 folders) circa 1967-1988
Furukawa Farms, Bill Hoerger's files regarding 1989 ALRB election hearing; includes Borrello flier information and event files; document types include: pleadings, memos and correspondence, research and discovery files, clippings, and publications (37 folders) circa 1988-1989
Furukawa Farms v. CRLA; includes Agricultural Labor Relations Board (ALRB) proceedings, payroll data, exhibits, interrogatories, depositions, motions, briefs, expert witness information, attorney notes and information, press releases, memos, correspondence (23 folders) 1987-1995
Furakawa Farms v. CRLA; includes contract agreements, exhibits and documents produced, depositions, correspondence (29 folders) 1988-1991
Furukawa Farms v. CRLA; includes depositions, exhibits, declarations, reporter's transcripts of proceedings, correspondence (27 folders) 1989-1991
Furukawa Farms v. CRLA; includes proceedings, exhibits and witness examinations; also witness files, hearing transcripts, interrogatories, growers contracts, notes; Superior Court pleadings and exhibits (21 folders) 1988-1991
Furukawa Farms v. CRLA; includes Superior Court pleadings and exhibits, bankruptcy proceedings, growers contract, correspondence (17 folders) 1988-1994
Furukawa Farms v. CRLA; includes Superior Court pleadings and exhibits (8 folders) 1990-1991
Furukawa Farms v. CRLA; includes witness files, testimonies, hearing transcripts, interrogatories, notes, correspondence (10 folders) 1988-1990
Pauline Gee files; primarily focused on education and immigrant labor; includes case summaries, case information, legal codes, Department of Education rules and regulations, correspndence, memos, reports, studies, newsletters, news articles, annual reports, notes (22 folders) 1968-1998
Gonzalez v. Furukawa Farms; includes complaints and amended complaints, motions, requests for documents, arbitration documents, depositions, exhibits, Joint Appendix on Class Certification Appeal (21 folders) 1987-1992
Gonzalez v. Furukawa Farms; includes defendant's interrogatories, working drafts, research (7 folders) 1987-1992
Gordon v. Justice Court of Yuba City; includes pleadings, research, notes, memos, legislation, and correspondence concerning the legality of non-attorneys serving on justice courts that hear criminal cases (25 folders)
Hampton v. Wong; includes Supreme Court, ninth circuit documents, appellants reply briefs, brief of amici curiae, other briefs; also correspondence, research, pleadings 1973-1974
Immigration litigation; including International Molders Union v. Nelson (INS), Equal Rights Congress v. Nelson, United Farm Workers of America v. Nelson, including motions, briefs, summaries, opinions, orders, declarations, affidavits, research, correspondence, news articles; also includes Special Agricultural Workers (SAW) information, newsletters, correspondence (8 folders) 1978-1993
International Human Rights files; includes petitions to Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) Organization of American States (OAR) and UN High Commissioner, human rights files involving Amnesty International, International Human Rights Law Group (IHRLG), National Council of Churches, Lawyers Committee for International Human Rights, International Human Rights Bill/Treaty; Central Valley Equal Rights Coucil (CVERC) v US including related research and news articles relating to immigrant drowning deaths, also includes exhibits, investigation reports, press releases (14 folders) 1979-1992
Kievlan v. Dahlberg/ Kievlan v. Maier; includes pleadings, correspondence, and court documents; the case concerns a group of senior citizens suing Dahlberg Electronics over false advertising for hearing aids (11 folders)
Legal research; topics include mechanization of agriculture and attorneys' fees (9 folders)
Lopez v. Davidian, correspondence; also includes research on related cases, research notes, and miscellaneous related records such as questionnaires for potential witnesses, and press clippings (9 folders) circa 1988-1994
Lopez v. Davidian, pleadings; also includes extra copies of orders, briefs, and complaints as well as exhibits used at trial circa 1988-1994
Lopez v. Ezell (Davidian), depositions; includes copies of depositions, exhibits presented in support, and reporters' transcripts (13 folders) 1989-1990
MAPA v. Honig; includes pleadings for original case, appeal, summary judgment, and settlement, as well as exhibits and depositions (16 folders) 1985-1991
MAPA v. Honig; includes correspondence, notes and drafts, and research and discovery (25 folders) 1985-1991
MAPA v. Honig; includes research and discovery, publicity, and other materials related to the case (10 folders) 1985-1991
Martinez v. Jeannette, depositions; includes the deposition of Susan Jeannette and Pedro Martinez, exhibits, and other deponents' testimony (8 folders) circa 1990-1991
Martinez v. Jeannette, reporters' transcripts; also includes partial transcript of appeals, and reporters' declarations regarding deponents' failure to appear (10 folders) circa 1990-1991
Mixed case files; includes Knight v. CRLA, Knight v. California, Flores v. El Centro School District, and Sayler Appellate brief memos (5 folders) circa 1977, 1989-1991
Mixed case files; includes Tomakin v. U.S., Rosaz v. City of Stockton, Hart v. County of Riverside, Patricak v. Tennessee Department of Public Welfare, Larson v. Romney, and Findrilakis v. Secretary of HUD; documents includes pleadings, research, and notes (23 folders)
Mixed case files; includes material on Chavez v. Superior Farming Company, DBAC v. Alameda County, UFW v. INS, Andrews v. ALRB, Hernandez v. SUSD, Lopez v. Mathews, Mel Smith Chevrolet v. Hernandez, Sebastian v. J. C. Penney, and various insurance cases (12 folders)
Mixed case files; includes Alice v. State Department of Social Welfare, AMAE v. Saxon, and Kievlan v. Maier; documents include pleadings, notes, and correpsondence (20 folders)
Mixed case files; includes COMA v. City Council and Findrilakis v. Secretary of HUD; documents include pleadings, depositions, notes, discovery, research, and correspondence (19 folders)
Mixed case files; includes pleadings, research, drafts, depositions, and correspondence related to Flores v. El Centro School District, research and transcripts relating to amici briefs for Bakke v. UC Regents, and correspondence and research relating to attorneys' fees (23 folders)
Mixed case files; includes material on Maria P. v Riles, Carrillo v. Ballin, Cruz v. CRLA, and Flores v. El Centro School District, as well as declarations for an unidentified 1973 court case, docket sheets from 1977, caseload statistics for 1978, and case handling manual revisions
Mixed material; includes memos, reports, articles, and pleadings on topics such as housing and rent, the Stockton CRLA office, and writs of habeus corpus (7 folders) 1974, 1977, 1983-86
Private Law Corporations; includes correspondence and billing information related to CRLA's contracts with private law firms to handle pro bono cases 1982-1987
PT&T case; includes proceedings related to applications brought by The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company before the Public Utilities Commission of the State of California to increase rates, and investigations by the Commission into fees charged by telephone companies in California (12 folders) 1981, 1983
PT&T case; includes testimony, exhibits, motions, decisions, correspondence, and miscellaneous documents related to application for rate increase (24 folders) circa 1980-1982
PT&T case; includes Public Advocates, Inc. materials, bilingual services, affirmative action files, briefs, decisions (11 folders) circa 1980-1982
Reclamation case materials; includes clippings, articles, correspondence, testimony, related briefs, grant proposal and reports (8 folders) 1976-1980
Research material; includes material on Medi-Cal, welfare, rural health services, United Farm Workers, migrant housing, reapportionment, reclamation laws, and farmworker disability (13 folders) 1974-75, 1979-81, 1983
Research material; includes clippings from the Food, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs Information Service (10 folders) circa 1975-1980
Research material; includes news clippings and articles on such topics as welfare, socialized medicine, and agricultural mechanization (8 folders) 1967, 1970, 1973, 1980-81
Schmidt v. Superior Court (Valley Mobile Park Investments), pleadings; also includes notes and research, correspondence, and amicus briefs (10 folders) circa 1985 - 1990
Stanislaus County Bar Association v. CRLA; includes correspondence, petitions, evidence, and other materials related to the Stanislaus County Bar Association's efforts to keep CRLA from practicing law in California (6 folders) 1966-1968
United Farm Workers (UFW) v. Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS), transcripts; includes reporters' transcripts of trial and proceedings of evidentiary hearing (4 folders)
United Farm Workers (UFW) v. Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS); includes correspondence, mostly regarding monitoring reports and press releases (6 folders) 1987-1994
United Farm Workers (UFW) v. Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS), depositions (11 folders) 1987-1989
United Farm Workers (UFW) v. Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS); includes pleadings, motions and orders (14 folders)
United Farm Workers (UFW) v. Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS), exhibits; includes plaintiffs' first, second, third, and fourth partial sets of exhibits, various defendants' exhibits, and other exhibits presented during the proceedings as well as subpoenas and SAW records (10 folders)
United Farm Workers (UFW) v. Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS), research and publicity files; also includes miscellaneous data reports and notes on the case (5 folders)
Utility company employment practices and bilingual services; includes proceedings related to applications brought before the Public Utilities Commission of the State of California concerning employment discrimination by telephone companies, and the need to require telephone companies to provide bilingual services (4 folders) 1981-1984
Western Land Office Inc. v. Cervantes and Hernandez v. Brock; includes proceedings, notes, correspondence, and other materials (7 folders)
Zambrano v. Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS); includes appeal information, motions, orders, excerpts of record, declarations, tarnscripts, proceedings, briefs, appellate rules and procedures, federal litigation procedure, client information packets, statistics, related cases, correspondence, memos, notes (24 folders) 1986-1993
Zambrano v. Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS); includes research, related cases, press releases, news articles, correspondence, memos, notes (7 folders) 1986-1993
Zermeno v. PG&E (Pacific Gas and Electric); includes research, correspondence, related legislation, pleadings, and notes (47 folders) circa 1979
Record Group 6. Program files circa 1970-1997
Series 1. Cooperative Legal Services Center (CLSC)
Cooperative Legal Services Center (CLSC); includes correspondence, memos, contact lists, dockets, and statistics relating to CLSC; topics include the defunding of CLSC because of cuts to CLRA's funding in the late 1970s (21 folders) 1974-1978
Cooperative Legal Services Center (CLSC); includes correspondence and memos related to the day-to-day running of the CLSC, as well as the 1977 Legal Services Corporation evaluation of the program (27 folders) 1975-1977
Cooperative Legal Services Center (CLSC); includes memos to offices, material for back up centers, and dockets (6 folders) 1972-1977
Series 2. Priorities Conferences and Task Forces
Priorities conferences and task forces; includes memos, correspondence, reports, and other material on the Asilomar Priorities Conferences and the civil rights, economic development, employment, farm labor, job creation, and migrant unit task forces (23 folders) 1974-1980, 1982, 1983, 1986
Priorities Conferences; includes memos, correspondence, reports, and conference material related to preparations for the 1985 and 1997 priorities conferences at Asilomar (8 folders) 1985, 1997
Task forces; includes memos, correspondence, reports, and other material on the Senior Citizens Law Program, the Food Law Center, and the Housing task force, as well as general information on CRLA task forces (9 folders) 1974-1977
Task forces; includes memos, correspondence, reports, and other material on the education, housing, labor, and health task forces (19 folders) 1979-1980
Task forces; includes memos, correspondence, and other material related to task forces on topics such as migrant workers, reclamation, education, housing, and job creation (16 folders) 1975, 1977-79
Task forces and Priorities Conferences; includes memos, correspondence, agendas, and other material relating to priorities conferences in the 1970s and early 1980s as well as the farm labor and immigration task forces (10 folders) 1976-1979, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1990-1991
Task forces and Priorities Conferences; includes correspondence, memos, notes, reports, and other material relating to priorities conferences in the late 1970s and early 1980s, migrant units, and the labor task force (12 folders) 1979-1980, 1982, 1987
Series 3. Sacramento Migrant Unit
Sacramento Migrant Unit; includes correspondence, memos, notes, and other materials relating to topics such as education, farm labor, rural health, pesticides, housing, industrial relations, and vacancies on the University of California Board of Regents (34 folders) 1978-1981
Sacramento Migrant Unit; includes correspondence, memos, notes and other materials relating to topics such as children, women's health, state budget concerns, Freedom of Information Act litigation, farm labor, rural health, and clerical unions (28 folders) 1978-1981
Sacramento Migrant Unit; includes correspondence, memos, and other material relating to litigation, lobbying, conferences, and organizations including the Commission on the Status of Women, La Cooperativa, and La Raza Legal Alliance (20 folders) 1978-1981
Sacramento Migrant Unit; includes reports, notes, correspondence, and memos on topics relating to migrant farm workers, such as health, immigration, and welfare (36 folders) 1978-1981
Sacramento Migrant Unit; includes reports, notes, correspondence, memos, newsletters and other materials on topics relating to migrant farm workers from organizations such as the General Accounting Office, the National Immigration Law Center, and the California Employment Development Department 1985-1995
Sacramento Migrant Unit; includes reports, notes, correspondence, and memos on topics relating to migrant farm workers, such as health, housing, education, unemployment insurance, and mechanization (16 folders) 1978-1981
Sacramento Migrant Unit; includes reports and other publications on topics relating to migrant farm workers, including family health, unemployment insurance, office of migrant services regulations, retraining efforts for cannery workers, and education inequality (37 folders) 1978-1981
Sacramento Migrant Unit; includes memos, correspondence, notes and other material on topics relating to migrant farm workers, including education, farm labor, and health (47 folders) 1978-1981
Sacramento Migrant Unit, correspondence 1981
Series 4. Training Programs
Attorney conferences; includes correspondence, memos, notes, meeting agendas and related material; also directing attorney orientation material (10 folders) 1978-1988
Attorney and staff training; includes materials related to LSC and budget training; new attorney orientation material; conferences, articles, other training programs and continuing education (39 folders) circa 1973-1982
Training and orientation; includes memos, correspondence, agendas, and conference materials related to training for CRLA attorneys, community workers, and office staff (30 folders) 1979-1981
Training and orientation; includes memos, correspondence, agendas, and conference materials related to training for CRLA attorneys, community workers, and office staff (22 folders) 1977-1979
Trial advocacy course; correspondence, notes, and training material; also clerical and legal writing training material (9 folders) 1983-1986
Series 5. Miscellaneous Program Files
Education programs (Stephen Rosenbaum files); education training and task force materials, mostly related to migrant and bilingual education; includes memos, correspondence, reports, clippings, pleadings (26 folders) circa 1980-1984
Education programs (Stephen Rosenbaum files); education training and task force materials, mostly related to migrant and bilingual education; includes memos, correspondence, reports, clippings, pleadings (13 folders) circa 1980-1984
Immigration programs; includes correspondence, memos, research, testimony, newsletters, reports, and other materials relating to the CRLA's immigration program; especially material relating to the Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy (21 folders) 1979-1981
Mixed conference and meeting files; includes migrant and priorities conference files; regional office meeting reports; related publications (11 folders) 1983-1986
Political rights programs; includes notes, correspondence, memos, pleadings, reports, and other materials relating to political rights in California (33 folders) circa 1973
Reclamation and immigration programs; includes correspondence, memos, research, testimony, statistics, reports, and other materials relating to the CRLA’s immigration and reclamation programs; especially material relating to the Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy (30 folders) 1977-1981
Reclamation Unit; includes notes, correspondence, memos, and pleadings relating to litigation over the status of reclaimed lands; cases include U.S. v. Tulare Lake Canal Co., United Family Farmers v. Kleppe, and Yellen v. Hickel/Andrus (17 folders) circa 1972
San Diego project; materials relating to the opening of a migrant services office in the San Diego area and reallocating resources from the Salinas office; includes memos, correspondence, reports, clippings circa 1987-1989
Record Group 7. Audiovisual material circa 1978-1993
Priorities Conference at Asilomar (6 videotapes and documentation) 1979
Videotapes (18) of news coverage on issues of concern to CRLA, such as mechanization and immigration 1978-1981
Videotapes (14) of news coverage on issues of concern to CRLA, including farm mechanization and pesticides; also La Voz del Pueblo, a public service announcement produced by CRLA in English and Spanish, and two folders of documentation 1978-1980, 1984
Unlabeled audiocassette
Record Group 8. Government Relations circa 1966-2000
Series 1. Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) and Legal Services Corporation (LSC)
Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO); includes applications, proposals, refunding hearing transcripts and closing memorandum (9 folders) 1966-1973
Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) refunding proposals; includes appendices, applications, proposals, and support letters for Office of Economic Opportunity refunding of CRLA (25 folders) 1967, 1971, 1973-1975
Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO); includes correspondence, reports, and memos relating to CRLA evaluation of other OEO-funded legal aid groups, refunding, revenue sharing, and other topics. (10 folders) 1969-1975
Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO); includes Community Action Program (CAP) memos; mostly information on funding (5 folders) 1966-1971
Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO); includes manuals and guidelines relating to the OEO's Community Action Program (CAP), grant applications and instructions, newsclippings, and material on Judicare and CRLA's Senior Citizens Project (22 folders) 1965, 1967-71
Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) and Legal Services Corporation (LSC); includes an application for refunding to the OEO and material relating to LSC monitoring visits in 1985 and 1987 (44 folders) 1971, 1985, 1987
Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) and Legal Services Corporation (LSC); includes correspondence, memos, lists, notes, and other materials relating to the debate over OEO's defunding and the legislative defeat of the LSC. (12 folders) 1973-1974
Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) and Legal Services Corporation (LSC); includes newsclippings and memoranda related to Reagan's veto of funding for CRLA in 1971, refunding applications, evaluations, and travel reimbursement (15 folders) 1971, 1973-74, 1980
Legal Services Corporation (LSC); includes correspondence, memos, budgets and other materials documenting CRLA's relationship with the LSC; topics include the Project Advisory Group and its Funding Criteria Committee (5 folders) 1975-1977
Legal Services Corporation (LSC); includes correspondence, memos, budgets, and other material documenting CRLA's relationship with the LSC (14 folders) 1975-1978
Legal Services Corporation (LSC); includes memos, correspondence, reports, and grant applications related to the Legal Services Corporation (LSC); topics include mergers of smaller legal aid associations with CRLA, as well as Congressional debates over appropriations for LSC (28 folders) 1975-1980
Legal Services Corporation (LSC); includes memos, correspondence, grant applications, and reports related to the LSC; topics include programs for special needs clients (18 folders) 1978-1981
Legal Services Corporation (LSC); includes memos, correspondence, reports, grant applications, and audits related to the Legal Services Corporation (LSC); topics include training seminars, restrictions on the use of funds to aid non-resident aliens, and lobbying restrictions (25 folders) 1980-1984
Legal Services Corporation (LSC); includes memos, correspondence, grant applications, and reports related to the LSC (18 folders) 1981-1985
Legal Services Corporation (LSC); includes memos, correspondence, news clippings, and applications related to monitorings and refunding (15 folders) 1985-88, 1990
Legal Services Corporation (LSC); includes regulations from the Legal Services Corporation Act of 1974 and the Amended Act of 1977, analysis and correspondence relavant to regulations, also includes ethical duties under the regulations, relavant case summaries (19 folders) 1976-1990
Legal Services Corporation (LSC), funding battle; includes legislative updates, news clippings, memos, alternative budget planning (26 folders) 1981
Legal Services Corporation (LSC); includes correspondence, reports, newsletters, memos, and other material related to LSC's activities; subjects include LSC appropriations for FY 1981, budget materials, information on social cutbacks, support letters, Cesar Chavez and the UFW, block grants to state legislatures, cutback management, and private bar involvement (16 folders) 1981
Legal Services Corporation (LSC); includes budgets, evaluations, reports, regulations, and grant conditions for LSC programs (17 folders) 1977-1985
Legal Services Corporation (LSC); includes refunding applications and related notes and correspondence (14 folders) 1985-1987
Legal Services Corporation (LSC); includes grant applications, monitoring reports, and related material (8 folders) 1988
Legal Services Corporation (LSC); includes grant applications, monitoring reports, and related material (19 folders) 1989-1991
Legal Services Corporation (LSC); includes material related to LSC grant applications; ULWC contract information; IOLTA applications; also Private Attorney Involvement (PAI) program materials (7 folders) 1987-1991
Legal Services Corporation (LSC) monitoring; includes correspondence, press clippings, reports, questionnaires related to monitoring CRLA, Texas Rural Legal Aid (TRLA), other organizations (19 folders) circa 1981-1986
Legal Services Corporation (LSC) monitoring; include preparation and planning materials, statistics, notes and memos; CRLA responses and final report; also includes IOLTA review materials (23 folders) circa 1983-1988
Legal Services Corporation (LSC) monitoring; includes reports, audits, document requests, correspondence, financial summaries, migrant unit issues, regional information, notes, miscellaneous (34 folders) circa 1983-1988
Legal Services Corporation (LSC) monitoring; includes memos, correspondence, financial records, and other material related to the 1985 LSC monitoring visit and CRLA's reaction to the report that followed (36 folders) 1985
Legal Services Corporation (LSC) monitoring; includes memos, correspondence, financial records, and other material related to the 1985 LSC monitoring visit and CRLA's reaction to the report that followed (14 folders) 1985
Legal Services Corporation (LSC) monitoring; includes memos, notes, correspondence, and other material related to the CRLA and CRLA Foundation requested by the 1985 LSC monitors; also news clippings concerning the 1985 monitoring (28 folders) 1985
Legal Services Corporation (LSC) monitoring; includes documents requested by LSC monitors as well as summaries of monitors' visits to CRLA offices (20 folders) 1985
Legal Services Corporation (LSC) monitoring; includes financial statements, Board minutes, and other materials requested by the 1985 LSC monitors (20 folders) 1985
Legal Services Corporation (LSC) monitoring; includes memos, financial records, and correspondence requested by the 1985 LSC monitors (17 folders) 1986
Legal Services Corporation (LSC) monitoring; includes minutes, articles, conference proceedings, operations manual, docket notebook, timesheets, and other material requested by the 1985 LSC monitors (12 folders) 1986
Legal Services Corporation (LSC) monitoring; includes description, analysis, clarrification, memos, and correspondence relating to LSC regulations; LSC monitoring audit files including procedures, instructions, forms, office visit and staff listing, monitoring team assignments, memorandums and correspondence relating to audits (43 folders) 1981-1986
Legal Services Corporation (LSC), Board meeting agendas (24 folders) 1984-1987
Legal Services Corporation (LSC); "Next Step" conference and reports (6 folders) 1978-1980
Legal Services Corporation (LSC), Private Bar Involvement; includes memos, correspondence, reports, news clippings, newsletters, and training materials related to the LSC's Private Bar Involvement mandate (15 folders) 1982-1985
Legal Services Corporation (LSC), statistics (11 folders) 1980-1985
Series 2. Reagan Veto
Reagan veto: includes OEO grant application materials (1969), CRLA’s legal counsel contract, Carlucci commission reports and memos, miscellaneous historical files related to the Reagan veto; drafts and copies of article by Jerome B. Falk and Stuart R. Pollak, "Political Interference with Publicly Funded Lawyers: The CRLA Controversy and the Future of Legal Services" (10 folders) circa 1969-1973
Reagan veto; includes correspondence, news clippings, memoranda, and reports related to CRLA's fight against Reagan's attempt to veto funding for the CRLA; includes a copy of the Uhler Report (32 folders) 1970-1971
Reagan veto; includes CRLA’s response to the Uhler Report, reports and contracts related to OEO commission; news clippings, press releases, correspondence, articles; Uhler questionnaire (63 folders) circa 1970-1971
Reagan veto; includes correspondence, budgets, reports, memoranda and other documents related to CRLA's fight against Reagan's attempt to veto funding for the CRLA (25 folders) 1970-1971
Reagan veto; includes memos, correspondence, press releases, news clippings, and mailing lists relating to CRLA’s campaign to overturn Reagan’s veto of CRLA funding (25 folders) 1970-1971
Reagan veto; includes news clippings, memos, and reports relating to CRLA’s campaign to overturn Reagan’s veto of CRLA funding (4 folders) 1969-1971
Reagan veto; includes news clippings and editorials related to Reagan's veto of funding for CRLA (9 folders) 1971
Reagan veto; includes news clippings and magazine articles related to Reagan's veto of funding for CRLA (18 folders) 1970-1971
Reagan veto; includes news clippings, reports, a support letters index, and other material related to Reagan's veto of funding for CRLA (8 folders) 1971-1972
Series 3. Miscellaneous Government Relations
Madera letter; includes correspondence, notes, memos, and news clippings related to accusations made by the Board of Supervisors in Madera County that CRLA pursued cases to increase their own publicity and stir up controversy (15 folders) 1981
Madera letter; includes exhibits gathered by CRLA in response to complaints lodged by the city of Madera (5 folders) 1980-1983
Private law firms and pro-bono activities; includes memos, correspondence, and budgets related to CRLA's coordination of activities with private law firms concerning pro bono legal activity (3 folders) 1982-1985
Relations with local organizations and government; includes correspondence and memos on CRLA involvement with CETA and the City of San Francisco's Community Services Administration 1977-78, 1981
Relations with national organizations and government; includes correspondence and memoranda on CRLA involvements with the Coalition of Legal Services, congressional inquiries in Gilroy, Modesto, and Hollister, Gramm-Rudman Legislation, Congressmen Leon Panetta and Robert Kastenmeier, Legal Services Corporation, the Reagan veto, the San Diego Project, and Save Legal Services 1966-1971, 1975, 1977, 1981-83, 1985-89
Relations with state and national organizations; includes correspondence, memos, and other materials on CLRA involvements with the National Economic and Law Center, the California Department of Health, the California Rural Health Policy Council, and other organizations (7 folders) 1995-2000
Relations with state organizations and government; includes correspondence and memos on CRLA involvement with the California Fair Political Practices Commission, Californians of Asian Ancestry, National Clients Council Region VIII, and the Western Center on Law and Poverty 1977-1984
State Bar of California Trust Fund/IOLTA applications; includes notes, memos, correspondence, and application materials for IOLTA funds from the State Bar of California (11 folders) 1984-1988
U.S. Congress; includes correspondence, memos, and other materials related to CRLA's interactions with members of the United States Congress, especially Leon Panetta, concerning allegations of the CRLA's misuse of funds (6 folders) 1988-1990
Record Group 9. Born-Digital material circa 1982-1993
Record Group 10. Files from William Hoerger's Office (Addenda 2016-042)
USA v. CRLA research binders, LSC News 1982-1988 (4 folders)
USA v. CRLA (orange binders): "Legal memos, drafts vol. I", 2003-2013 (5 folders)
USA v. CRLA (orange binders): "Legal memos, drafts vol. II" (6 folders)
USA v. CRLA (orange binders): "Legal memos, drafts vol. III" (5 folders)
USA v. CRLA (orange binders): "Legal memos, drafts vol. IV" (5 folders)
"O.I.G. Stockton Investigation, 2005- (orange binders) (1 folder)
Loose documents and email, 2012-2013 (Legal Aid of N W Texas, etc.) (1 folder)
USA v. CRLA; DDC Opinion, 2013- (2 folders)
US and Kirt West v. CRLA: opposing declarations, 2007, vol. I (orange binder) (4 folders)
US and Kirt West v. CRLA: litigation correspondence (1 folder)
US and Kirt West v. CRLA: correspondence vol. I (4 folders)
US v. CRLA: hearing (9/08) notes (2 folders)
US v. CRLA: mediation proceedings (2008-2009) (5 folders)
US v. CRLA: post-mediation proceedings (2009) (4 folders)
US v. CRLA: production log and indices (2 folders)
US v. CRLA: production log, set 1 (3 folders)
US v. CRLA: Federal authorities, vol. I (4 folders)
US v. CRLA: Federal authorities, vol. II (4 folders)
US v. CRLA: California (and other states') authorities (3 folders)
US v. CRLA: miscellaneous authorities (3 folders)
US v. CRLA: administrative vol. I (1 folder)
US v. CRLA: CRLA client identity program, 2012-2013 (3 folders)
US v. CRLA: C.M.S protocol for teaching. Non-priviledged disclosure of client identities.
Confidentiality and O.I.G. review, 2002, vol. I, tabs 1-8 (4 folders)
Confidentiality and O.I.G. review, 2002, vol. II, tabs 9-20 (2 folders)
Uhler report and CRLA response (3 folders)
O.I.G. chronological file, Jan - April 2002 (4 folders)
O.I.G. chronological file, May - December 2002 (3 folders)
O.I.G. chronological file, 2003 (2 folders)
O.I.G. Enforcement petition: chronology of OIG "Modesto" investigation; Bill Hoerger declaration (1 folder)
O.I.G. chron file 2014 (Oakland) (4 folders)
Modesto schools case, 2006 (navy binder) (2 folders)
Arias v. Raimondo (1 folder)
US and Kirt West v. CRLA: Chronology Vol. II, office copy (white binder) (2 folders)
US and Kirt West v. CRLA: Exhibits to declaration (white binder) (3 folders)
US and Kirt West v. CRLA: miscellaneous papers inside Pleadings binder (1 folder)
US and Kirt West v. CRLA: pleadings, Vol. II (white binder) (3 folders)
US and Kirt West v. CRLA: pleadings, Vol. III (white binder) (4 folders)
Cohen/Bumpers, 1/01/04 - 6/30/04, semi-annual report on legislative and rulemaking activities conducted pursuant to 45 C.F.R. : 1612.10(c) (accordion folder) (5 folders)
USA v. CRLA: labor task force production, subpoena- appendix A, no. 9. Privilege log, redacted prodfuction of 11/15/2013, unredacted "originals" (white binder) (2 folders)
2012 Farmworker Law Conference; previous case examples (green binder) (4 folders)
USA v. CRLA: U. S. Circuit Cout of Appeals D.C. Circuit, Case no. 11-5361; CRLA briefing and amicus recruitment working papers (white binder) (4 folders)
USA v. CRLA: U. S. Circuit Cout of Appeals D.C. Circuit, Case no. 11-5361, "Record: (including arguments below re feasibility of producing/disclosing client identities per OIG protocol (white binder) (1 folder)
US Inspector General of LSC v. CRLA, Case no 11-5361, pleadings (white binder) (2 folders)
CRLA Asilomar training conference 2004. CD training materials, paper copies. Binder no. 2 (white binder) (2 folders)
CRLA Asilomar training conference 2004. CD training materials, paper copies. Binder no. 3 (white binder) (1 folder)
Modesto services, CCCI case, email messages, March-August 2004 (white binder) (1 folder)
O.I.G. Audit - Modesto, 12/05-???. Cases - Vol I, loose papers in binder (white binder) (1 folder)
O.I.G. Audit - Modesto, 12/05-???. Cases - Vol. I. (white binder) (3 folders)
O.I.G. Inquiry May 32, 2012 re CRLA/Santa Barbara representation of Pueblo Education Fund (white binder) (2 folders)
Potential request no. 7 activities (white binder) (1 folder)
Community education reports (white binder) (1 folder)
LSC-OPP audit, Nov 2010 (clear binder) (1 folder)
LSC-OPP Program Quality visit, Nov. 1-5, 2010. Document request due 10/15/10. General program information, performance area one through four (white binder) (4 folders)
Loose articles and memos, 2001-1013
Miscellaneous loose papers, 2002-2014
O.I.G. and redactions, 2013 (manila folder) (1 folder)
Representation and LSC regulations, (manila folder labeled: 42 U.S.C. 299e(b)(1)(B)) (1 folder)
USA v. CRLA, Federal Work Product (manila folder) (1 folder)
Quevedo Flores (Fresno) (manila folder) (1 folder)
Dept. of Labor - certify U visa petitions (1 manila folder)
2011 LSC applications (manila folder) (1 folder)
Standards for the monitoring and evaluations of providers for legal services to the poor, 2002 edition (blue binder) (1 folder)
Legal Services Corp.: Governance and accountability practices need to be modernized and strengthened (clear binder) (1 folder)
USA v. CRLA Declarations in Record (clear binder) (1 folder)
CRLA 2007 position papers re O.I.G. investigation (black binder) (1 folder)
Opposition to petition, September 2007, Work Product Examples, exhibits (1 accordion file) (1 folder)
Standards for providers of civic legal services to the poor, 2002 edition (blue binder) (1 folder)
US and Kirt West v. CRLA: reference materials (accordion folder) (1 folder)
CRLA response to OCE letter of April 26, 2007, request no. 4 (white binder) (2 folders)
CRLA's first response to OCE request of October 23, 2007 (November 17, 2007) (clear binder) (1 folder)
CRLA's further response to OCE request of October 23, 2007 (November 26, 2007) (white binder) (2 folders)
1612 Audit (December 2007) notices in re public rulemaking (Jan. 1, 2004-June 30, 2007) (white binder) (4 folders)
LSC OCE CRLA compliance audit (May 14-18, 2007) (white binder) (2 folders)
LSC OCE CRLA compliance audit (May 14-18, 2007) (white binder) (1 folder)
LSC OCE CRLA 1612 audit (2007) Vol. VI, Bill's set of tables and chart
CA-D-AGR-1551 H (1 folder)
CA-D-AER-1551 H CRIS project summary sheet (1 folder)
CA-D-AER-1551 H progress report (1 folder)
CA-D-AER-1551 H AD progress reports (1 folder)
CA-D-AER-1551 H AD 421's progress reports (1 folder)
CA-D-AER-1551 H AD 419's research funds and staff support (1 folder)
CA-D-AER-1551 H AD 417's classification of research (1 folder)
CA-D-AER-1551 H (A-3) research resume project narrative 9/11/80 - 2/20/82; project reports 1979-1982 ( 1 folder)
CA-D-AER-1551 H form 4's protection of human subjects ( 1 folder)
CA-D-AER-1551 H reports of extra mural support of research; multilith and other reports (1 folder)
CA-D-VCR-1592-HRD CRIS project summary form (1 folder)
CA-D-VCR-1592-HRD (A-4) progress report 1979-1982 (1 folder)
CA-D-VCR-1592-HRD (A-4) form 4's protection of human subjects (1 folder)
CA-D-VCR-1592-HRD (A-4) AD 417's classification of research (1 folder)
CA-D-VCR-1592-HRD (A-4) research resume, project narrative 1980, 1982 (1 folder)
CA-D-VCR-1592-HRD (A-4) AD 421's progress reports (1 folder)
CA-D-VCR-1592-HRD (A-4) AD 419's research funds and staff support( 1 folder)
CA-D-VCR-1592-HRD (A-4) AD 416's research resume, narratives, USDA correspondence (1 folder)
CA-D-VCR-1592-H CRIS project summary, olives (1 folder)
CA-D-AER-1551-H (A-3) research resumes, narratives, project revisions, USDA correspondence (1 folder)
CA-D-AER-1551 H cherries (1 folder)
CA-D-AER-1551 H prunes, pears (1 folder)
CA-D-AER-1551 H nuts, apples, tomatoes, lettuce, berries, melons (1 folder)
CA-D-AER-1551 H peaches, apricots (1 folder)
CA-D-AER-1551 H grapes (2 folders)
Project no. H 1592, Davis, vegetable crops (3 folders)
Project no. H 1592, Davis, vegetable crops (3 folders)