Yellen versus Imperial Irrigation District collection, 1970-1972.

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Yellen versus Imperial Irrigation District collection, 1970-1972.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/163873943

The Collection contains official transcripts of two federal trials regarding water use in the Imperial Valley and the non-enforcement of two provisions of the original Reclamation Act of 1902. The transcripts Include the testimony of landowners, government officials, economists, and land and water use experts, and legal arguments regarding the admission of evidence, intervention into the case by landowners, and other legal issues.

0.40 linear feet (1 archive box)

University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6907175

University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library

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Imperial Irrigation District (Calif.)

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Yellen, Ben, 1907-1994

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An American physician educated and trained at Columbia University and the Long Island School of Medicine, Yellen migrated to Brawley, Calif., in 1942, where he founded a successful medical practice that primarily served agricultural workers and migrants. Approximately ten years later, Yellen emerged as one of the leading proponents for enforcing rights of local farm workers (domestic and migrant) and for inhibiting the growth of large, corporate farms. In 1961, Yellen helped to usher through the...