Contra Costa Times, May 17, 2009 by Matt O’Brien

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“He was willing to change the law in response to social conditions,” said Rachel Moran, a law professor at UC Berkeley. “California was becoming the great state, the powerhouse it would become after World War II. The need to be responsive to change was really considerable.”