Public Interest Briefs
Public Interest Briefs track CLIPI’s filings, funding, coalition wins, showing how each step drives policy change and nurtures advocates.
Spring/Summer 1997
In Celebration of a quarter-century of unprecedented success in working on behalf of civil rights, the environment, responsive government, and many other issues, CLIPI on September 16th will host a gala 25th Anniversary Dinner at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel.
CLIPI will salute its past and present by honoring the life and work of Emmy-award winning television producer/writer David Kelley who, throughout such television shows as Chicago Hope, L.A. Law and The Practice, has demonstrated an unswerving dedication to confronting intelligently in his art such issues as civil liberties, racism, sexism, and the needs of underprivileged. Kelly has raised the popular profile as well as the overall dignity of the nation’s most powerful medium.
CLIPI Executive Director Ed Howard praised Kelley, recipient of CLIPI’s 25th Anniversary Distinguished Achievement Award, stating “David Kelley’s life and work exemplify the values that led to CLIPI’s founding 25 years ago and reflect the passion and dedication of our current legal and professional staff.”
“Also,” Howard added, “the dinner is an opportunity to honor all of CLIPI’s supporters – its family – whose loyalty for the past 25 years have made CLIPI’s work possible.”
In addition to honoring Mr. Kelley, the gala dinner will acknowledge CLIPI’s founders: current Board Chair Brent Rushforth, Carlyle Hall, John Phillips, and the late Fredric Sutherland.
Brent Rushforth remarked that the dinner “will permit us to reflect upon and celebrate CLIPI’s remarkable legacy: preservation of Santa Monica Bay from oil drilling, restoration of Watts Towers, creation of tens of thousands of affordable housing units through the Century Freeway litigation, rewriting federal laws that enabled the return of billions of fraudulently obtained dollars to the U.S. Treasury, extension of California’s environmental laws to commercial development, desegregation of the Los Angeles Police and Fire Departments, and many other ground-breaking accomplishments.”
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Spring/Summer 1997 Briefs previews CLIPI’s 25th-anniversary gala honoring TV writer David Kelley, welcomes new trustees, blocks Commissioner Quackenbush’s restrictive long-term-care plan, and spearheads California’s identity-theft reform bill, protecting elders and consumers.
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