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The Southern opinion
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Rare Books
9 volumes containing the opinions of Donald R. Wright, from 1969 to 1970 when he was Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeals, Second Appellate District, and from 1970 to 1977 when he was Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court. The opinions from the Court of Appeals (1969-1970) are in 3 volumes of loose leaf typescript in paper binders and are arranged alphabetically by the name of the appellant. They have a paper labels: "Opinions Justice Donald R. Wright". The Supreme Court opinions are in 6 volumes bound in blue cloth. The volumes are chronological (each volume representing one year) with a typewritten alphabetical index by case title at the beginning of each volume. They are labelled on spine: "Opinions by Wright, C.J."
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Manuscripts
The Ely Collection consists of the papers of United States Federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Justice Walter R. Ely, Jr., past President of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and prominent Los Angeles attorney. Roughly one-third of the collection consists of over 2000 U.S. Circuit Court case files for the period 1971-1984, including private internal memoranda between Ely and such prominent fellow justices as Anthony Kennedy (now on the Supreme Court) and Shirley Hufstedler. Included are many cases with both local significance and larger regional or national impact, with a random check finding topics such as offshore drilling, censorship ("The Beard"), race relations and education (Los Angeles NAACP vs. California Department of Education), immigration (numerous INS cases), labor relations (Teamsters; NLRB cases), feminism (NOW), and financial fraud (Equity Funding; Bernard Cornfeld), with private comments by the justices not only on the cases but also on Supreme Court behavior, personnel, etc. In addition, there is material on the Committee on Standards of Judicial Administration, the Criminal Justice Act of 1964, and the Bankruptcy Appeals Panel in the early 1980s. Before being appointed to the bench, Walter Ely was a prominent and politically active lawyer in Los Angeles. There is extensive documentation of his involvement with the Los Angeles County Bar Association, of which he was president in 1962, the California Conference of State Bar Delegates, and the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association, not to mention his own personal practice. He was also an active Democrat, and there is material on California politics for 1956-1964, especially the election campaigns of Governor Edmund G. (Pat) Brown, Attorney General Stanley Mosk, Richard Richards, and others in 1962.
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Manuscripts
3 items: letter, memo, list of LAT articles written by Lally Weymouth (1983 - 1985) and list of contributing editors for Opinion (ca. 1984).
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