Finding Aid for the Léon R. Yankwich Papers, 1909-1959
Finding Aid for the Léon R. Yankwich Papers, 1909-1959
Collection number: 538
UCLA Library, Department of Special CollectionsManuscripts Division
Los Angeles, CA
- Manuscripts Division
- UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
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- Processed by:
- James V. Mink, 6 August 1959
- Additions by:
- Dydia Delyser, May 1989
- Encoded by:
- Alight Tsai
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- Caroline Cubé
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- Online finding aid edited by:
- Josh Fiala, June 2003
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- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
- Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific Time)
- Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
- Material regarding Yankwich's federal judgeship appointment.
- Los Angeles Superior Court correspondence files.
- U.S. District Court correspondence files.
- Addenda.
- Addenda no.2.
- Clippings, election precinct results, and memorabilia.
- Tomorrow: February (2 copies), March, June-July 1924; February 1925. Housed in Southern California Serials (Collection 1601 T598 Box 147). Available at Department of Special Collections, UCLA.
- Sports & Vanities: November, December (2 copies) 1926; January, February (2 copies), March (2 copies), May, November 1927. Housed in Southern California Serials (Collection 1601 S764v Box 147). Available at Department of Special Collections, UCLA.
Container List
Material re Yankwich's Federal Judgeship Appointment, 1935
Copies of endorsements.
Envelope containing letters re the appointment.
Letters of recommendation.
Copies of inauguration ceremonies.
Folders marked: Congrats. and numbered: I-V.
Scope and Content Note
Newspaper and magazine articles re his appointment.
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Papers re the Melvin Butterbaugh Estate.
Manuscript notes and sketches of his addresses, 1933-1934.
Copies of law examinations given at Loyola University, Los Angeles, by Judge Yankwich.
Marked: Crime and Criminals, and containing chiefly newspaper and magazine articles on this subject.
Newspaper clippings re cases decided by Judge Yankwich in Portland, Oregon.
Newspaper clippings re cases decided by Judge Yankwich in Tacoma, Washington.
Copies of letters of recommendation for appointment to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals vacancy, 1943.
The United States vs. Arthur L. Bell, Transcript of Trial and opinion and indictment
vol.1-5.
vol.7-11.
vol.12-16.
vol.17-21.
The United States vs. San Francisco Electrical Contractors Association, Transcript of trial. August 30, 1944.
Transcripts of trials re World War II Selective Service Act violations.
It's libel or contempt if you print it.. (book) by Judge Yankwich
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Typescript draft.
Galley proof.
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Correspondence, contracts and reviews.
Reviews.
Scope and Content Note
Los Angeles Superior Court Correspondence Files, 1927-1935
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A - C.
D - J.
K - O.
P - S.
T - Z.
U.S. District Court Correspondence Files, 1935-1949
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A - C.
D - G.
H - K.
L - M.
N - Q.
R - S.
T - Z.
Memos, local rules from various judges for period covered by correspondence, 1935-1949.
Material re Los Angeles Superior Court Judgeship Campaign, 1934.
Scope and Content Note
Note
Correspondence re his candidacy for appointment to a vacancy in the 9th District Court of Appeals, 1934.
Material concerning his appearance before the Senator Jack Teny Un-American Activities Investigation Committee, 1948.
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[Miscellaneous Material]
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A - B.
C - L.
M.
N - R.
S.
T - Z.
Material re attack on Yankwich by Congressman Richard Vail, March 27, 1952.
Material re Lester Cole referred to in the Vail attack. Note books, manuscripts of articles, lectures, etc.
Copies of printed articles and books.
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Lectures.
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Uncorrected galley proofs of his The nature of our freedom.
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Material re early cases in Los Angeles.
Literary articles.
[Miscellaneous Materials]
Scope and Content Note
A.
B.
C - D.
F - People vs. Follett.
F - G.
H.
I - J.
K.
L - M (remainder of alphabet lacking).
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A - M.
N - Z.
S.
T (incomplete file).
U - Z.
Miscellaneous.
Papers relating to Modesto cases.
Miscellaneous legal papers.
Escobar papers.
Earl vs. Examiner et al.
State of Washington vs. Angevine.
Snivley vs. Los Angeles Record.
Earl vs. Examiner (briefs on appeal).
In the matter of the Press Association.
Snivley vs. the Record (pleadings).
Alien land law and other opinions.
Crawford vs. Hawe.
Early Los Angeles activities, Bar Association Business.
Typed originals of eight hour law briefs.
Lectures, 1919, 1920.
Modesto War Activities, 1914-1916.
Press Association briefs.
Snivley appeal briefs.
Libel notes.
Brief and record in first Oregon case.
Deaman brief in eight hour law case.
Yankwich personal libel briefs.
Modesto War Activities.
Escobar vs. Rogers, etc.
Radio Addresses.
Series 1-3.
Series 4-5
Opinions.
1927-1931.
April-September 1931.
October-December 1931.
1932-1934.
1934-1935.
1935-1937.
1937-1939.
1949-1951.
U.S. District Court Opinions. 1935-1949.
Appelate Court Decisions (Department of Los Angeles Superior Court).
Circuit Court of Appeals.
Printed briefs, pleas, etc. of important cases, chiefly California.
Scope and Content Note
Proceedings of the California Bar Association, 1917, 1920, 1924.
Libel case clippings.
Material on California State Supreme Court Recommendations, January 1958.
Personal items, including personal letters to July 15, 1925.
Notes on bankruptcy.
Espionage case.
Materials re the following cases: U.S. vs. Graham (refugee case); U.S. vs. Smith; and U.S. vs. Hunt.
New stories, 1941.
Personal items, 1934.
Judicial questions [legal].
Drummond spy trial.
Report of Special Committee to investigate bankruptcy and receivership proceedings and administration of justice in U.S. Courts. 74th Congress, 2nd session.
Rupert Trumbull referee in bankruptcy materials.
Material on appointment to judgeship.
Briefs on women's eight hour law.
First brief in Oregon after passing bar examination.
Essay in long hand in Romanian re the Romanian Fable.
Bill of Rights in the matter of impaneling of a grand jury.
Material re Maude Hall vs. Imperial Water Company.
Material re Ida Lub.
Sample legal forms.
Miscellaneous legal papers.
Addenda
Judge Yankwich's book: It's libel or contempt if you print it... Part Two, Chapters 7-15.
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Note
Judge Yankwich's book: The Nature of our Freedom.
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Note
Written opinions filed by Judge Yankwich as a Judge of the Superior Court with indication of the issue of the Journal or News in which they were published, August 10, 1927-January 1, 1932.
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Written opinions filed by Judge Yankwich as a Judge of the Superior Court, January 1, 1932-ca. 1935.
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1934 re-election campaign.
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Note
Printed bound volumes with index of appeals from cases tried by Judge Léon R. Yankwich.
Bibliography of Léon R. Yankwich, J.D., LL.D. Chief United States District Judge Southern District of California Los Angeles, California.
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Biographical Sketch for Who's Who (Léon René Yankwich).
Citizenship Ruling (Extension of Remarks of Honorable Cecil R. King of California in the Congressional Record of June 27, 1955.
For Whom the Constitution? (Extension of Remarks of Honorable Cecil R. King of California in the Congressional Record of May 17, 1955).
Correspondence between Judge James H. Pope, Judge of the Municipal Court, Los Angeles Judicial District, and Judge Yankwich (Separately indexed in detail for each year: 1955-1957, and 1959).
1955 Correspondence
Transmittal letter for Its Libel or Contempt If you Print It, The Nature of Our Freedom, and a biographical sketch, August 8, 1955.
Scope and Content Note
Reference to scrapbooks, titles and protocol of federal judges, April 12, 1955.
Transmittal for Talmud pamphlet, April 7, 1955.
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Judge Pope's letter re scrapbooks, Jewish Law and request to borrow copy of the Talmud article, April 11, 1955.
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1956 Correspondence
Transmittal letter for paper on Unfair Competition as an Aid to Equity, May 16, 1956.
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Transmittal letter for cards giving chief publications, etc., February 29, 1956.
Reference to Copeland Case and to individualization of punishment being legislatively destroyed through lack of understanding of the indeterminate sentence, February 20, 1956.
Scope and Content Note
1957 Correspondence
Judge Pope's thank you for copy of Individualization of Punishment in the Federal Courts, December 22, 1957.
Scope and Content Note
Refers to appreciation of loan of Cornelius Cole papers and indexing of materials and impending retirement, December 16, 1957.
Refers to material and scrapbooks to be given to Judge Pope, December 13, 1957.
Scope and Content Note
1959 Correspondence
Transmittal for (1) five scrapbooks 1927-35; (2) Manuscript of opinions rendered as a Superior Court Judge; (3) three bound books with index of appeals from cases tried showing wide range of problems, May 20, 1959.
Scope and Content Note
Judge Pope's letter acknowledging receipt of the letter of May 20 together with the three parcels of records for the Historical Collection of the County Law Library; and forwarding a copy of Guide to Special Collections by UCLA (1958) and requesting its return, July 27, 1959.
Requests that collection be consolidated at UCLA and describes the UCLA offer to catalog, etc. August 3, 1959.
Articles in Federal Rules Decisions (2 lists of 22).
Charge to Grand Jury (Reprinted from Federal Rules Decisions, October 1954).
Independence in the Judiciary (Extension of Remarks of Honorable Cecil R. King of California in the Congressional Record of June 7, 1955); What Kind of Independence Do We Ask in the Judiciary?
Magazine Articles (List of 33 with publication data).
Magazine Articles (List of 47 with publication data).
Narcotics and the Federal Law (Reprinted from The Georgetown Law Journal (vol.43, no.1), November 1954).
Parody and Burlesque in the Law of Copyright (Reprinted from The Canadian Bar Review for December 1955).
Individualization of Punishment in the Federal Courts (Reprinted from 20 Federal Rules Decisions, August 1957).
An American Judge Looks at the Talmud (an address delivered before the Western Jewish Institute at Los Angeles, California January 14, 1936).
Unfair Competition as an Aid to Equity in Patent, Copyright and Trade-Mark Cases.
Reprints [12] of articles published, 1951-1959.
Individualization of Punishment in the Federal Courts, Address delivered at the Inservice Training Institute..., Claremont Men's College, August 6, 1956.
Appellate Department Decisions of Judge L.R. Yankwich.
[Continuation of U.S. District Correspondence Files, 1935-1949(?)]
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M.
N - P.
P.
R.
Material relating to the Campaign of 1928.
Addenda no.2
Reprints of articles written by Judge Yankwich beginning A.
A - H.
I - O.
P - Z.
Manuscripts of articles written by Judge Yankwich.
U.S. Court of Appeals assignments
A.B.L. Brewing vs. C.T.R. to DeGarter vs. F.T.C.
Eisinger vs. Commissioner to Feil and Loeb vs. F.T.C.
Gamewell Company vs. Phoenix, Arizona to NLRB vs. Jones Lumber.
NLRB vs. Mountain Pacific, etc. to R.A.U. vs. C.I.R.
Sidebotham vs. Katz to Wong vs. Sweir.
U.S. District Court decisions.
Newspaper articles and miscellaneous papers, 1929-1966.
Law-Mirror of Civilization, I Established Law and Justice, Libel Trials - I.
Libel Trials - II, some famous trials.
Some famous trials, recordings, U.S. vs. Hunt.
Its Libel or Contempt....
Court Correspondence.
General Correspondence, A - K.
General Correspondence, L - Z.
Miscellaneous papers from 3-Judge Navajo-Hopi trial in Prescott, Arizona; miscellaneous papers on 3-Judge Alcohol Beverage Control case in San Diego.
Original manuscripts of articles.
Additions, 1975
Personal legal matters.
Mrs. Yankwich's traffic ticket - correspondence, briefs.
Personal correspondence.
Miscellaneous legal matters.
Notes on pleading and procedure.
Copy of Federal courts, C.A. Wright.
Personal notes.
Lecture notes.
Bankruptcy - citations.
Citations: A - I.
Citations: J - Z.
Notes on common law pleading.
Court rules and rules of practice.
Citations - his own cases[?].
Biographical material.
Letters of recommendation, July 1935.
Letters urging Yankwich's appointment.
Photos.
Duplicates of photos.
Printed material by Judge Yankwich.
Mats for newspaper photos.
Printed material about Judge Yankwich.
Miscellaneous.
Datebooks.
Book reviews.
Miscellaneous clippings, not by or about Yankwich.
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Lectures and writings by Yankwich.
Property - business, personal.
Printed materials, some by or about Yankwich.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, ca. 1950.
Judges' salaries - statistics.
Administrative Office of U.S. Courts - correspondence and statistics.
Patent decisions - transcripts, etc.
Various personal files of correspondence and records.
Scope and Content Note
Income tax records, other business and tax records.
[Various] books and magazines.
Additions
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Scrapbooks of Clippings
1934-1935.
1931-1933.
1933-1934.
1930-1931.
1954-1959.
1935-1936.
1946-1949.
1950-1953.
1926-1931.
1931-1933.
1937-1939.
1936-1937.
1930.
1934-1935.
1933-1934.
1934.
1927-1930.
1926-1929.
1959-1964.
Elections
Voting results, by precinct, 1934.
Scrapbooks of Clippings
1928.
1909-1918.
1928-1929.
1927-1928.
1930.
1929.
1927-1930.
1935.
1941-1945.
1939-1941.
Memorabilia
Certificates, degrees, memberships, drawings, caricatures, portraits, etc.
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Reference files.