A senior staff attorney reflects on four decades with the California Supreme Court (1960-2001) and a lifetime with disability
By: 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,
Contributors: LaBerge, Germaine.; Mosk, Stanley, 1912-; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2003
Subjects: 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-
Genres: Interviews.
Description: 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.