03255ntcaa2200445^a^4500 staffattorney4dec00beltrich CaSfIA 20240823195821.0 m o d cr|||||||||||| 040220s2003 cauac o 001 0deng d CU-BANC eng CU-BANC appm CaSfIA n-us-ca Belton, Peter J., 1933- ive A senior staff attorney reflects on four decades with the California Supreme Court (1960-2001) and a lifetime with disability : oral history transcript / 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, 2003. 2003. 1 online resource ( Transcript: 1 v. (xi, 371 p.) : illustrations, portraits) Original interviews: 21 sound cassettes. Supplementary material: 1 portfolio. Includes interviews with Justice Stanley Mosk recorded in 1998. 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. Supplementary material: 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. Audio tape recording of the interviews also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3635 C:1-21. 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. Belton, Peter J., 1933- Schauer, Rey. Mosk, Stanley, 1912- 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- Oral histories. rbgenr LaBerge, Germaine. ivr Mosk, Stanley, 1912- ive Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office. GLAD BANC BANC MSS 2004/123 c GLAD BANC Phonotape 3635 C:1-21 https://archive.org/details/staffattorney4dec00beltrich Free eBook from the Internet Archive https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7151726M Additional information and access via Open Library staffattorney4dec00beltrich ark:/13960/t9862c32f