Box 15
Container
Contains 10 Results:
Attorney General's office
Sub-Series — Box: 15
Scope and Contents
Mr. Idar joined the State Attorney General's office in 1973, and worked there for 10 years. Besides management and office files, there are also cases on which Idar worked, divided into "police cases" and "prisoner rights cases." By far, the largest section are the records ofRuiz v. Estelle, which at the time of the hearings was the largest civil rights case ever in Texas. David Ruiz filed complaints against the Texas Department of Corrections (TDC) in 1974, and the pretrial,...