Nearly 50 years after CLIPI's Northrop case helped shape landmark anti-bribery legislation, recent changes to FCPA enforcement threaten decades of progress in corporate accountability and fair business practices.

In honor of American Archives Month, CLIPI reflects on the importance of preserving decades of groundbreaking litigation records and the lessons they hold for future generations of advocates, scholars, and students.

50 boxes of CLIPI case files to be archived at UC Irvine Library

In 2025, the False Claims Act produced $6.8 billion in settlements and judgments, the largest annual recovery in the law's history.

CLIPI established the principle that clean air is a legal right, not a political preference. However, deregulation is putting that work at risk.

Decades of public interest work by CLIPI has had a positive lasting impact. From the creation of thousands of units of affordable housing, to thousands of jobs for minorities and women in industries and agencies that had excluded them and thousands of acres of parks and open space saved. However, the work is never done.

CLIPI led the challenge against granting an operating license for the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, arguing that an earthquake safety evaluation was first required.

When we started CLIPI, we had to figure out everything from scratch - from the funding, how to hire, to the cases we wanted to bring on.

Re-examining policies such as the California Environmental Quality Act deserves a fair discussion.

Years of past case work from CLIPI helped lay the foundation for the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing to be possible by protecting those lands.