Sheldon
Greene
Author of Lost and Found and The Seed Apple
Biography
Sheldon Greene is the author of eight well received novels as well as articles published in scholarly journals. He was appointed Warden of Insurance of the State of Ohio at age 23. A public interest lawyer, Greene pursued seminal issues literally decades before they achieved national attention, such as our flawed health delivery system, the impact of illegal immigration on the economy, renewable energy, and our public land policies. Greene was a participant in the first Obama national policy team for both immigration and energy. He was one of the founders of the New Israel Fund and helped formulate its unique structure drawing on his experience as General Counsel of California Rural Legal Assistance. He is an executive in a wind energy development company and has been actively engaged in renewable energy for over 25 years. He served on the Advisory Board of the Great Lakes Energy Institute at Case Western Reserve University School of Engineering for 10 years and sings in the Oakland Symphony Chorus. He advocates the formulation of a God concept derived from the life process, stripped of anachronistic anthropomorphic characteristics.
Education
Magna Cum Lauda, Phi Beta Kappa, Order of the Coif, Case Western Reserve University, undergraduate and law, fifth in Grand National Debate Tournament, Law Review Editor, Winner Dunmore Moot Court Competition, Contracts Prize.
Work History
Appointed Warden of Insurance of the State of Ohio at age 23. In that capacity he initiated and was attorney in first successful state challenge to increased Blue Cross insurance rates, challenging inefficiencies in the delivery of health care in the US. .
War Against Poverty: As Directing Attorney of the Modesto office and later General Counsel, of California Rural Legal Assistance; he successfully brought suits against the Reagan administration that blocked massive cuts in medical assistance to low income and working poor, a suit requiring implementation of minimum wages for women and minors, suit blocking importation of braceros, a suit challenging abuses of non resident worker law, drafted legislation and secured bi-partisan sponsorship of the first law in United States to penalize the knowing employment of illegal entrants in the country signed into law by California Governor Reagan. The specific legal citations to these case are listed below.
Appellate Cases
CA3 Morris v. Williams, 67 Cal. 2d 733, 433 P.2d 697, 63 Cal. Rptr. 689 (Cal. 11/20/1967)
CA3 Rivera v. Division of Industrial Welfare, 265 Cal. App. 2d 576, 71 Cal. Rptr. 739 (Cal.App.Dist.3 09/10/1968)
CA3 Roberts v. Superior Court of Stanislaus County, 264 Cal. App. 2d 235, 70 Cal. Rptr. 226 (Cal.App.Dist.5 07/22/1968)
Gooch v. Clark, 433 F.2d 74 (9th Cir. 09/08/1970)
CA3 Zumwalt v. Trustees of California State Colleges, 33 Cal. App. 3d 665, 109 Cal. Rptr. 344 (Cal.App.Dist.3 07/25/1973)
C09 Salazar v. San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, 538 F.2d 269 (9th Cir. 04/22/1976)
C09 Bowker v. Morton, 541 F.2d 1347 (9th Cir. 08/31/1976)
CA3 Garnel v. Bunzel, 68 Cal. App. 3d 999, 137 Cal. Rptr. 627 (Cal.App.Dist.1 04/11/1977)
CA3 Meyers v. Los Angeles County Probation Department, 78 Cal. App. 3d 309, 144 Cal. Rptr. 186 (Cal.App.Dist.2 03/07/1978)
Cultural: He was a member of the founding board of the New Israel Fund and served as its first secretary. He lived in Israel for almost two years, studied Hebrew in Jerusalem, worked on the National Archeological Survey in the Negev and a Kibbutz in the Gallil.
Political: Greene was a member of the Obama National Policy Teams for Energy and Immigration and was active in working up both policies
Publications
Novels: Lost and Found, a novel, Random House; Burnt Umber, Prodigal Sons, , Pursuit of Happiness . The Seed Apple, After the Parch, Waiting for the Messiah, renamed The Lev Effect and Tamar, .: Scholarly Articles: Promised Land Distribution of Public Land by the United States 5 Ecology Law Quarterly 4 at 707-751 University of California, Berkeley; Public Agency Distortion of Congressional Will, 40 The George Washington Law Review #3 March, pp 440-464; Immigration Law and Rural Poverty-The Problems of the Illegal Entrant, Duke Law Journal #3 pp475-494
Published Articles
Academic Law Review
Promised Land: Distribution of Public Land by the United States 5 Ecology Law Quarterly 4 at 707-751 (1976) University of California, Berkeley
Public Agency Distortion of Congressional Will, 40 The George Washington Law Review #3 March 1972, pp 440-464
Immigration Law and Rural Poverty-The Problems of the Illegal Entrant, 1969 Duke Law Journal #3 pp475-494
Cause of Action and the Statute of Limitation, Koenigberg v. California, 9 Survey of Ohio Law, 10 Western Reserve Law Review
Periodicals
Man in the Middle, Liability of California Insurance Agents and Brokers, Underwriters Report, April 8, 1965
Wetbacks, Growers, and Poverty, The Nation, Oct 20 1969
CRLA Pest or Pesticide? California Farmer Sept 20, 1969
Somebody is Always Offended , The Nation, Dec. 14, 1970
Is Lawcare Next? The Nation, Dec. 11, 1972
Employment of Illegal Entrants Los Angeles Times, May 25 1972
Corporate Accountability and the Family Farm, in Radical Agriculture, edited by Richard Merrill, Harper Colophon 1976
Board
Advisory Board of the Great Lakes Energy Institute, at Case Western Reserve University, School of Engineering,.
Lecture
The Mehlman Lecture, Health Care in America , at the Law School Case Western Reserve University