[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 96 (Wednesday, July 11, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H3928]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                TRIBUTE TO THE LATE JUSTICE STANLEY MOSK

  (Mr. FARR of California asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FARR of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise tonight to speak on the 
memorial of Justice Stanley Mosk. Many of you know that as a fifth-
generation Californian, born in San Francisco, where Stanley Mosk died, 
that he was a giant among supreme court Justices in the United States. 
He left a legacy of justice in California, having served on the supreme 
court in that State for 37 years.
  I knew him as a lawyer. My father was in the State legislature and 
was very close to the Mosk family and to the Pat Brown family. Governor 
Pat Brown appointed him to the bench.
  The tragedy of his loss is that one of the greatest legal minds of 
this century served in all of that time when California was emerging as 
a State, growing to be the incredible nation-state that it is, and the 
California Supreme Court rose to, I think, in respect probably the 
highest among all State supreme courts in the United States. Stanley 
Mosk led that drive. It is a great tragedy that we lost him before we 
could totally record all of his memories, but his legacy will live on 
in the history of California. He was one of the men that matched our 
mountains.

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