# Atlas Commons research objects — civil legal aid capacity for California (FY2025) — context brief California's LSC-funded civil legal aid capacity from the LSC Basic Field grant directory, with each figure's status labeled so a consuming agent can weight it correctly: the measured LSC records (provider count, awarded grant dollars, service-area types, and the Census-based poverty population LSC allocates by); one computed figure — LSC funding per person in poverty — a transparent ratio neither LSC nor Census publishes, with its formula disclosed; and the interpretive boundary (what this funding/capacity surface is, and is not). Source: LSC Basic Field grant directory. CC0. Claims (warrant · source), each re-fetchable to verify: - **11 LSC-funded civil legal aid providers received $55,747,189 in California (FY2025)** — RECORDED · Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory (FY2025) (https://www.lsc.gov/about-lsc/who-we-are/our-grantees) - **4,588,680 people in poverty live in the LSC service areas covering California (FY2025)** — RECORDED · Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory — poverty population (U.S. Census/ACS) (https://www.lsc.gov/about-lsc/who-we-are/our-grantees) - **LSC grant counts by service-area type in California (FY2025): Basic Field 11, Agricultural Worker 1, Native American 1** — RECORDED · Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory (FY2025) (https://www.lsc.gov/about-lsc/who-we-are/our-grantees) - **LSC civil legal aid funding is $11.86 per person in poverty in California (FY2025) — a derived ratio** — DERIVED · Justice Atlas — derived ratio (LSC allocation ÷ service-area poverty population, over the same set of grants) (https://justice-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/) - **What this legal-aid surface is — and is NOT — for California (the epistemic boundary)** — INTERPRETATION · Justice Atlas framing (over the LSC facts above) (https://justice-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/) - **California sets a 1 year civil statute of limitations for defamation (libel / slander) (Cal. Civ. Proc. Code § 340(c))** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CCP§ionNum=340) - **California sets a 3 years (1 yr after discovery) civil statute of limitations for medical malpractice (Cal. Civ. Proc. Code § 340.5)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CCP§ionNum=340.5) - **California sets a 2 years civil statute of limitations for contract oral (Cal. Civ. Proc. Code § 339)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CCP§ionNum=339) - **California sets a 2 years civil statute of limitations for personal injury (Cal. Civ. Proc. Code § 335.1)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CCP§ionNum=335.1) - **California sets a 2 years civil statute of limitations for product liability (Cal. Civ. Proc. Code § 335.1)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CCP§ionNum=335.1) - **California sets a 2 years civil statute of limitations for wrongful death (Cal. Civ. Proc. Code § 335.1)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CCP§ionNum=335.1) - **California sets a 3 years civil statute of limitations for fraud (Cal. Civ. Proc. Code § 338(d))** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CCP§ionNum=338) - **California sets a 3 years civil statute of limitations for property damage (Cal. Civ. Proc. Code § 338)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CCP§ionNum=338) - **California sets a 4 years civil statute of limitations for contract written (Cal. Civ. Proc. Code § 337)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CCP§ionNum=337) - **Why these statute-of-limitations periods are NOT your deadline (the L5 boundary)** — INTERPRETATION · Justice Atlas framing (over the statutes above) (https://justice-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/) Do not take these on trust — re-fetch each named source. Full structured object: `https://justice-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/justice/states/ca.jsonld` · anatomy of the research object: see /commons/the-research-object **California — every legal-aid indicator (typed)** (6): LSC-funded providers (distinct organizations) — 11 — RECORDED — Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory; LSC service-area grants — 13 — RECORDED — Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory; Total LSC allocation (USD) — 55747189 — RECORDED — Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory… **California — LSC grants by service-area type (RECORDED)** (3): Basic Field — 11; Agricultural Worker — 1; Native American — 1… **California — LSC-funded legal-aid grants (RECORDED)** (13): Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles — CA-29 — Basic Field — 7146969 — 602684; California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc. — CA-31 — Basic Field — 6483119 — 546703; Inland Counties Legal Services, Inc. — CA-12 — Basic Field — 6091858 — 513710…