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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.
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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 / 2003

Creator/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-ca
Lawyers -- California -- Interviews
People with disabilities -- California -- Interviews
Poliomyelitis -- Patients -- Interviews
People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc -- California
Court rules -- California
Personnes handicapées -- Californie -- Entretiens
Poliomyélite -- Patients -- Entretiens
Règles de pratique -- Californie
Politics and government
Poliomyelitis -- Patients
People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc
People with disabilities
Lawyers
Court rules
California -- Politics and government -- 1951-
Californie -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1951-
California
California. -- Supreme Court -- History
California. -- Supreme Court
Belton, Peter J -- 1933-
Schauer, Rey
Mosk, Stanley -- 1912-2001
Bird, Rose Elizabeth
Mosk, Stanley -- 1912-2001
Bird, Rose Elizabeth

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.
Volume includes index.
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.

Type:

biography
Interviews.
History.
Oral histories.

Physical Description:

print
1 v. (xi, 371 p.) : ill., ports. ; 29 cm.
21 audiocassettes.
1 portfolio.

Language:

English

Origin:

California

Copyright 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.