Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office
Selected oral histories of the California Supreme Court
California State Archives, Sacramento
California Oral History Project
Election materials, November 1986
Legislative bill files
State of California Commission on Judicial Performance Hearing in the Matter of Commission Proceedings Concerning the Seven Justices of the Supreme Court of California, 1979
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