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A senior staff attorney reflects on four decades with the California Supreme Court (1960-2001) and a lifetime with disability
: oral history transcript / 2003.
BANC MSS 2004/123 c; Phonotape 3635 C:1-21; BANC MSS 2004/123 c suppl.
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Title:
A senior staff attorney reflects on four decades with the California Supreme Court (1960-2001) and a lifetime with disability : oral history transcript / 2003Creator/Contributor:
Belton, Peter J., 1933-, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
LaBerge, Germaine, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Mosk, Stanley, 1912-2001, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Birth in Chile; childhood in England and Canada during World War II; Lycée Français de New York, 1946-1952; Harvard College
and Law School, 1952-1957; contracting polio and adapting to life with a disability; teaching legal writing at UC Berkeley
Law School; staff attorney at California Supreme Court, 1960-2001: work with Justices Rey Schauer and Stanley Mosk; reflections
on the Rose Bird court, court processes, drafting opinions; state constitutionalism; California Handicapped Access Code, Title
24, and accessibility in general; revising California Rules of Court for the Judicial Council.
Supreme Court of California Practices and Procedures (1997 revision); pamphlet "Courtroom Dedication, January 8, 1999, San
Francisco, California"; list of law clerks; two speeches by Belton; speech by Richard M. Mosk on Stanley Mosk.
Date:
2003 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caBelton, Peter J -- 1933-
Schauer, Rey
Mosk, Stanley -- 1912-2001
Bird, Rose Elizabeth
California. -- Supreme Court -- History
Lawyers -- California -- Interviews
People with disabilities -- California -- Interviews
Poliomyelitis -- Patients -- Interviews
People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc -- California
Court rules -- California
California -- Politics and government -- 1951-
Note:
Peter J. Belton ; with an introduction by Jake Dear. Interviews conducted by Germaine LaBerge in 1999-2001. Regional Oral
History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Includes interviews with Justice Stanley Mosk recorded in 1998.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Audio tape recording of the interviews also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3635 C:1-21.
Also available online.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Volume includes index.
Type:
biographyOral histories.
Physical Description:
print
1 v. (xi, 371 p.) : ill., ports. ; 29 cm.
21 sound cassettes.
1 portfolio.
Language:
English
Identifier:
http://nma.berkeley.edu/ark:/28722/bk0005z184h
BANC MSS 2004/123 c
Phonotape 3635 C:1-21
BANC MSS 2004/123 c suppl.
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.