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Title: B. Abbott Goldberg papers
Date (inclusive): 1955-1966
Collection Number: WRCA 119
Creator:
Goldberg, B. Abbott (Benjamin Abbott), 1916-
Extent:
3.75 linear feet
(9 boxes)
Repository:
Rivera Library. Special Collections Department.
Riverside, CA 92517-5900
Abstract: Papers include legislative histories of San Luis Act of 1959, Reclamation Act of 1902, Central Valley Project Act of 1933,
and the Federal Power Act; also includes cumulated material on "unjust enrichment" in operation of State Water Project and
on court cases involving the Dept. of Water Resources in period 1950-65; files on State Water Project financing.
Languages: The collection is in English.
The collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to the University of California, Riverside Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives.
Distribution or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission
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[identification of item], [date if possible]. B. Abbott Goldberg papers (WRCA 119). Water Resources Collections and Archives.
Special Collections & University Archives, University of California, Riverside.
Gift of Barbara L. Goldberg, 2003.
Collection number updated January 2019. Legacy collection number was MS 85/2. This change was part of a project in 2018/2019
to update the collection numbers for collections in the Water Resources Collections and Archives.
Processed by Water Resources Collections and Archives staff, 2004.
B. Abbott Goldberg was born in Fitchburg, Mass., in 1916. He graduated from the University of Michigan and Harvard Law School.
He moved to California in 1944 and taught four years at Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. From 1948 to 1961 he
was deputy and later assistant attorney general of California, handling the major litigation concerning the state's interest
in the Central Valley Project. He also was in charge of the attorney general's office section concerned with education and
welfare law. From 1961 to 1966 he served as deputy director and chief deputy director of the California Department of Water
Resources. He also acted as special counsel to the governor on the legal problems of water development. He was appointed a
judge of the Municipal Court in Sacramento in 1966 by Gov. Edmund G. Brown.
Papers include legislative histories of San Luis Act of 1959, Reclamation Act of 1902, Central Valley Project Act of 1933,
and the Federal Power Act; also includes cumulated material on "unjust enrichment" in operation of State Water Project and
on court cases involving the Dept. of Water Resources in period 1950-65; files on State Water Project financing.
The collection is arranged topically.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library's online public access catalog.
California State Water Project
California. Department of Water Resources
California. Burns-Porter Act
Central Valley Project (Calif.). San Luis Unit
Farms, Size of -- California
Federal-state controversies -- California
Reclamation of land -- California
United States. Reclamation Act of 1902
Water resources development -- Law and legislation -- California
Water rights -- California
Water-supply -- California
Articles
Correspondence
Legal documents
Legislation (legal concepts)
Memorandums