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Wyatt, Walter, 1893-1978. Papers of Walter Wyatt [manuscript], 1916-1963.

Title: Papers of Walter Wyatt [manuscript], 1916-1963.

The papers consist primarily of office files from Wyatt's years as general counsel to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Board, 1922-1946, and recorder of decisions for the Supreme Court, 1946-1963. Correspondence relating to the U.Va. Law School Association, and the U.Va. Alumni Association are also included. There are some personal papers, many concerning either the Rock Creek Park Association, or his nomination to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia; and Wyatt's restricted diaries, 1946-1963. Topics include the role of the Federal Reserve Board during the depression, the New Deal and World War II, including the Federal Open Market Committee; banking legislation, including the Banking acts of 1932 and 1935, the Securities Act of 1933, the Gold Reserve Act of 1934, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Assignment of Claims Act, 1940, farm credit bills, and war powers bills. Topics also include the McFadden National Bank Bills, 1924-1927, and the Bank Collection Code, 1931; the House Committee on Banking and Currency; litigation involving Federal Reserve Banks; amendments to the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, various Board regulations; the Inter-American Bank; bank suspension studies; branch banking; and war financing. There are also articles and speeches by Wyatt, and an oral history, the reminiscences of Walter Wyatt. The diaries and Supreme Court papers contain information on court operations, judges' personalities, and important decisions such as John L. Lewis vs. the U.S., Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka, and Rosenberg vs. the U.S., as well as comments on the Washington, D.C. social scene. Correspondents include Hugo Lafayette Black, Harold Hitz Burton, Thomas C. Clark, Colgate W. Darden, William O. Douglas, Felix Frankfurter, John M. Harlan, Robert Houghwout Jackson, Frank Murphy, John Lloyd Newcomb, Stanley Forman Reed, F.D.G. Ribble, Wiley Blount Rutledge, Edward R. Stettinius, Frederick Moore Vinson, and Earl Warren.

ArchivalResource: 44,000 items.

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Kemble, John Haskell, 1912-1990,. Court proceedings regarding the Dollar Steamship Company.

Title: Court proceedings regarding the Dollar Steamship Company. 1948-1951.

ArchivalResource: 11 v. ; 22-24 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41219077 View

Henry White Edgerton Papers, 1910-1970, (bulk 1929-1966)

Title: Henry White Edgerton Papers 1910-1970 (bulk 1929-1966)

Jurist, lawyer, and educator. Correspondence, memoranda, writings, case files, reports, notes, pamphlets, lists, newspaper clippings, and printed matter, relating mainly to White's career as a law professor and judge.

ArchivalResource: 2,000 items; 8 containers; 3.2 linear feet

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McGowan, Carl, 1911-1987. Papers of Carl McGowan, 1930-1988 (bulk 1962-1988).

Title: Papers of Carl McGowan, 1930-1988 (bulk 1962-1988).

Chiefly court case files depicting his judicial career especially his years with the United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit. Also includes correspondence, speeches and writings by McGowan and others, subject files, and miscellany.

ArchivalResource: 45,000 items.149 containers.64 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71132574 View

Ruth Bader Ginsburg papers, 1897-2005

Title: Ruth Bader Ginsburg papers, 1897-2005

Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, writings, reports, interviews, briefs, orders, opinions, motions, depositions, and other papers relating chiefly to Ginsburg's efforts as an advocate for women's rights, particularly through her speeches and writings and her endeavors as general counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union and director of its Women's Rights Project. Documents her work as proponent for the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s, as law professor at Columbia University, and as judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Also includes Ginsburg (Ginsberg) family papers and material relating to Ginsburg's travels including a trip to China. Includes cases involving discrimination against women such as the first successful gender-based law suit, Reed v. Reed; Frontiero v. Richardson, regarding fringe benefits for married servicewomen; Califano v. Goldfarb, relating to the rights of widowers to claim social security survivor benefits; Healy v. Edwards, pertaining to jury duty for women in Louisiana; and Seldin v. State Board of Education of New Jersey, concerning discrimination in sports.

ArchivalResource: 55,250 items; 157 containers plus 66 restricted; 61.6 linear feet

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Fahy, Charles, 1892-1979. Reminiscences of Charles Fahy : oral history, 1958.

Title: Reminiscences of Charles Fahy : oral history, 1958.

Family background; law practice, Washington, D. C., 1914-1924, and New Mexico, 1924-1933; experiences as World War I naval aviator; Indian affairs and oil in Department of Interior, 1933-1935; New Deal; National Recovery Administration; National Labor Relations Board; experiences as Assistant Solicitor General and Solicitor General, 1940-1945, including London Base-Lease negotiations, 1941; adviser to United States delegation, San Francisco Conference, 1945; legal adviser, United States military government of Germany, 1945-1946; legal adviser, Department of State, 1946-1947; Legal Committee, United Nations General Assembly, 1946; alternate United States representative, United Nations General Assembly, 1947-1949; judge, United States Court of Appeals for District of Columbia, 1949-

ArchivalResource: Miscellaneous papers relating to oral history.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/309737465 View

George E. MacKinnon papers., 1927-1995.

Title: George E. MacKinnon papers. 1927-1995.

Subject files (1927-1995), judicial files (1969-1995), and personal papers (1938-1995) of a legislator, naval officer, congressman, Republican Party campaigner, U.S. district attorney for Minnesota, gubernatorial candidate, special assistant to the U. S. attorney general, corporate attorney for Investors Diversified Services, and U.S. Court of Appeals judge for the District of Columbia circuit. The papers include correspondence and memoranda, bills, committee files, investigative materials, legal case files and opinions, press releases, reports, speeches, printed items, clippings, and other material related to MacKinnon's political, prosecutorial, and judicial careers.

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Thurman Wesley Arnold papers, 1895-1970 (bulk 1910-1970)

Title: Thurman Wesley Arnold papers 1895-1970 (bulk 1910-1970)

Personal and professional papers of this lawyer andantitrust advocate, who is best known for his appointment by President FranklinDelano Roosevelt as assistant attorney general of the United States in charge of theAntitrust Division in 1938.

ArchivalResource: cubic ft. (111 boxes)

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Gerhard Alden Gesell Papers, 1956-1993, (bulk 1968-1992)

Title: Gerhard Alden Gesell Papers 1956-1993 (bulk 1968-1992)

Judge and lawyer. Correspondence, memoranda, manuscripts of writings, speeches, agenda and minutes of meetings, opinions, orders, dockets, notes, sentencing information, case files, and other legal papers and material pertaining primarily to Gesell's career as judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and documenting his cases in the areas of civil rights, constitutional law, antitrust matters, patent cases, and government regulations.

ArchivalResource: 60,000 items; 171 containers plus 1 classified; 67.2 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003019 View

MacKinnon, George E., 1906-1995. George E. MacKinnon Papers, 1927-1995.

Title: George E. MacKinnon Papers, 1927-1995.

Subject files (1927-1995), judicial files (1969-1995), and personal papers (1938-1995) of a legislator, naval officer, congressman, Republican Party campaigner, U.S. district attorney for Minnesota, gubernatorial candidate, special assistant to the U.S. attorney general, corporate attorney for Investors Diversified Services, and U.S. Court of Appeals judge for the District of Columbia circuit. The papers include correspondence and memoranda, bills, committee files, case files, investigative materials, legal case files and opinions, press releases, reports, speeches, printed items, clippings, and other material related to MacKinnon's political, prosecutorial, and judicial careers.

ArchivalResource: 178.0 cu. ft. (178 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313827599 View

J. Skelly Wright Papers, 1933-1987, (bulk 1948-1986)

Title: J. Skelly Wright Papers 1933-1987 (bulk 1948-1986)

Attorney, judge, and educator. Personal and professional correspondence, case files, opinions, memoranda, reports, speeches and writings, financial papers, teaching material, clippings, printed matter, and photographs relating primarily to Wright's legal and judicial career.

ArchivalResource: 81,200 items; 232 containers; 116 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003076 View

Harold H. Burton papers, 1792-1965

Title: Harold H. Burton papers, 1792-1965

Correspondence, diaries (1941-1963), legal case files, speeches, writings, reports, broadsides, maps, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and photographs, chiefly relating to Burton's service as associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1945-1958) and U.S. senator from Ohio (1941-1945). Subjects include his Cleveland law practice, Ohio and Republican Party politics, social life in Washington, D.C., Townsend Plan, Inc., the Truman Committee (U.S. Senate Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program), U.S. Office of Price Administration, United Nations, Alaska, American Association of the Red Cross, American Unitarian Association, American Legion, Bowdoin College, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Included in Burton's extensive Supreme Court files are bench and certiorari memoranda, conference lists, notes, drafts, opinions, docket books, and other files relating to such cases as Standard Oil v. Federal Trade Commission, Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company v. Sawyer, and Brown v. Board of Education. Also includes material on the Hitz family. Correspondents include William J. Brennan, Owen Brewster, John W. Bricker, Styles Bridges, Harry Flood Byrd, Tom C. Clark, William O. Douglas, Felix Frankfurter, John M. Harlan, Earl E. Hart, William Hitz, J. Edgar Hoover, Robert Houghwout Jackson, Frank J. Lausche, Sherman Minton, Frank Murphy, Stanley Forman Reed, Donald R. Richberg, Harlan Fiske Stone, Robert A. Taft, Harry S. Truman, Fred M. Vinson, Henry Agard Wallace, and Charles Evans Whittaker.

ArchivalResource: 118,000 items.399 containers plus 1 classified and 4 oversize.159.5 linear feet.5 microfilm reels.

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Wiley Rutledge Papers, 1912-1984, (bulk 1935-1951)

Title: Wiley Rutledge Papers 1912-1984 (bulk 1935-1951)

Educator, jurist, and lawyer. Correspondence, family papers, court files, academic files, speeches and writings, and others papers documenting Rutledge's career as professor and dean of the State University of Iowa College of Law (1935-1939), associate justice for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (1939-1943), and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1943-1949).

ArchivalResource: 76,100 items; 233 containers; 93.2 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003006 View

Henry White Edgerton Papers, 1910-1970, (bulk 1929-1966)

Title: Henry White Edgerton Papers 1910-1970 (bulk 1929-1966)

Jurist, lawyer, and educator. Correspondence, memoranda, writings, case files, reports, notes, pamphlets, lists, newspaper clippings, and printed matter, relating mainly to White's career as a law professor and judge.

ArchivalResource: 2,000 items; 8 containers; 3.2 linear feet

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Arnold, Thurman Wesley, 1891-1969. Papers, 1895-1970 (bulk 1910-1970).

Title: Papers, 1895-1970 (bulk 1910-1970).

Collection contains 38 boxes of professional and personal correspondence as well as an extensive index to the correspondence (1910-1970); case files of legal documents, correspondence, memorandums, press releases, reports, and notes related to his work with the Antitrust Division (1923-1943); files of notes, galley proofs of opinions, and printed opinions of cases decided by Judge Arnold (1943-1945); drafts, manuscripts, publisher's correspondence, and reviews of three books; manuscripts of numerous articles and book reviews by Arnold and others; personal financial, legal, and general files (1919-1965); photographs (1895-1950s); professional files (1929-1967); speeches; a scrapbook; biographical information on Arnold and family members; and miscellaneous awards and certificates. The collection contains virtually no material from the years 1919 to 1927 when he was living and practicing law in Laramie.

ArchivalResource: 58.6 cubic ft. (111 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23737660 View

United States. Supreme Court. [Swift and Company, et al. court proceedings].

Title: [Swift and Company, et al. court proceedings]. [1920-1931]

Collection consists of published court documents pertaining to United States of America, petitioner, v. Swift and Company and others, defendants held in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and in the Court of Appeals, District of Columbia.

ArchivalResource: 5 v. ; 24 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232547435 View

Prettyman, E. Barrett (Elijah Barrett), 1891-1971. Papers of E. Barrett Prettyman, 1901-1971 (bulk 1945-1965).

Title: Papers of E. Barrett Prettyman, 1901-1971 (bulk 1945-1965).

Correspondence, diaries, subject and case files, writings, and miscellaneous material relating primarily to Prettyman's career as judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Subjects include the District of Columbia, Judicial Conference of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, efforts to establish a legal aid agency for the District of Columbia, federal tax law, federal administrative law, appeal of the seizure of the steel industry by President Truman (Sawyer v. U.S. Steel), criminal law on insanity, and communist subversion. Includes papers (1873-1945) relating to the ministerial career of his father, Forrest Johnston Prettyman, especially the ecclesiastical trial of Methodist Episcopal Bishop James Cannon, Jr. Correspondents include Walter M. Bastian, David L. Bazelon, Warren E. Burger, John Anthony Danaher, Henry White Edgerton, Charles Fahy, Benjamin McKelway, Wilbur K. Miller, Henry L. Shepherd, Harold M. Stephens, and George Thomas Washington.

ArchivalResource: 57,000 items.172 containers plus 1 oversize.69.2 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71060869 View

Leventhal, Harold, 1915-1979. Papers, 1932-1980 (bulk 1964-1979).

Title: Papers, 1932-1980 (bulk 1964-1979).

Chiefly correspondence, case files, notebooks and notes, and office files documenting Leventhal's service (1965-1979) as judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; together with private correspondence, files from his legal practice in Washington, D.C., speeches and writings, and other papers. Includes material on administrative, constitutional, and criminal law appeals, rate-making theory for American Telephone and Telegraph, Democratic National Committee and 1964 national convention in Atlantic City, N.J., illegality of an increase in the District of Columbia transit bus fare, government sponsorship of the nativity scene in the Christmas pageant of peace in Washington, D.C., and the Watergate trial. Correspondents include Walter M. Bastian, David L. Bazelon, Warren E. Burger, John Anthony Danaher, Kirk Douglas, Charles Fahy, David Ginsburg, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Louis Lusky, Carl McGowan, Harriet F. Pilpel, Forman Reed, John J. Sirica, Simon Ernest Sobeloff, Harlan Fiske Stone, Edward A. Yam, and J. Skelly Wright.

ArchivalResource: 94 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34576609 View

Harold Leventhal Papers, 1932-1980, (bulk 1964-1979)

Title: Harold Leventhal Papers 1932-1980 (bulk 1964-1979)

Lawyer and jurist. Chiefly correspondence, case files, notebooks and notes, and office files documenting Leventhal's service as judge on the United States. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; together with private correspondence, files from his legal practice in Washington, D.C., speeches and writings, and other papers.

ArchivalResource: 80,000 items; 236 containers; 94 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011104 View

Charles Fahy Papers, 1857-1985, (bulk 1942-1975)

Title: Charles Fahy Papers 1857-1985 (bulk 1942-1975)

Jurist, lawyer, United States solicitor general, and United States delegate to the United Nations. Diaries, correspondence, legal case files, subject files, speeches and writings, and other papers. Primarily related to Fahy's service on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Other papers relate to Fahy's role as an advisor and representative of the presidential administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson. Also documents Fahy's professional activities and associations, as well as his World War I experience as a naval aviator. Includes family papers.

ArchivalResource: 35,000 items; 103 containers; 40.2 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms004013 View

Sadlowski, Edward. Edward Sadlowski papers, 1956-1991 (bulk 1974-1978).

Title: Edward Sadlowski papers, 1956-1991 (bulk 1974-1978).

Correspondence, legal documents, election and poll materials, financial records, newsletters, press releases, newspaper clippings, speeches, and other papers of Ed Sadlowski, a labor leader who was elected director of District 31, United Steelworkers of America (USWA) in 1973 and then campaigned for the presidency of USWA. Most of the collection relates to Sadlowski's 1977 campaign against the incumbent, Lloyd McBride; support from rank and file members in the Chicago area; and the federal lawsuit eventually decided by the U.S. Supreme Court about campaign contributions by non-members of the union. Includes trial transcripts and affidavits relating to the federal court cases; text of Sadlowski's interview of George D. Patterson, an early organizer of unions around Chicago (258 p.); sound recordings of campaign speeches and songs (1970s); and a motion-picture film about steel workers' safety issues.

ArchivalResource: 14 linear ft. (35 boxes)16 sound cassettes. (Original).23 sound tapes. (Original).1 motion-picture film. (Original).14 sound discs : analog. (Original).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/712704441 View

Stephens, Harold M. (Harold Montelle). Papers of Harold M. Stephens, 1895-1955.

Title: Papers of Harold M. Stephens, 1895-1955.

Correspondence (1921-1955), diaries (1895-1896, 1921, 1949-1955), speeches, articles, and books, biographical papers, legislation (1936-1955), Stephens' thesis (1933), photographs, degrees, memoranda, and other personal and legal writings and papers relating to social organizations, universities, financial affairs, hospital administration, closed case memoranda, American Bar Association, District of Columbia Court of Appeals building, and U.S. judicial conferences (1947-1955). Includes subject files and Frank Ezekiel Holman papers. The bulk of papers concerns the affairs of the United States district and federal courts and court of appeals.

ArchivalResource: 162,000 items.409 containers plus 7 oversize.180 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79452547 View

Harold H. Burton papers, 1792-1965

Title: Harold H. Burton papers, 1792-1965

Correspondence, diaries (1941-1963), legal case files, speeches, writings, reports, broadsides, maps, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and photographs, chiefly relating to Burton's service as associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1945-1958) and U.S. senator from Ohio (1941-1945). Subjects include his Cleveland law practice, Ohio and Republican Party politics, social life in Washington, D.C., Townsend Plan, Inc., the Truman Committee (U.S. Senate Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program), U.S. Office of Price Administration, United Nations, Alaska, American Association of the Red Cross, American Unitarian Association, American Legion, Bowdoin College, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Included in Burton's extensive Supreme Court files are bench and certiorari memoranda, conference lists, notes, drafts, opinions, docket books, and other files relating to such cases as Standard Oil v. Federal Trade Commission, Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company v. Sawyer, and Brown v. Board of Education. Also includes material on the Hitz family. Correspondents include William J. Brennan, Owen Brewster, John W. Bricker, Styles Bridges, Harry Flood Byrd, Tom C. Clark, William O. Douglas, Felix Frankfurter, John M. Harlan, Earl E. Hart, William Hitz, J. Edgar Hoover, Robert Houghwout Jackson, Frank J. Lausche, Sherman Minton, Frank Murphy, Stanley Forman Reed, Donald R. Richberg, Harlan Fiske Stone, Robert A. Taft, Harry S. Truman, Fred M. Vinson, Henry Agard Wallace, and Charles Evans Whittaker.

ArchivalResource: 118,000 items.399 containers plus 1 classified and 4 oversize.159.5 linear feet.5 microfilm reels.

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Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. In the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Association of American Physicians and Surgeons Inc. et al. plaintiffs, appellees v. Hillary Rodham Clinton et al. defendants, appellants : on appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia no. 93-399 / brief of amicus curiae J. Gregory Sidak in support of appellees.

Title: In the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Association of American Physicians and Surgeons Inc. et al. plaintiffs, appellees v. Hillary Rodham Clinton et al. defendants, appellants : on appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia no. 93-399 / brief of amicus curiae J. Gregory Sidak in support of appellees. [1993]

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (various leaves) ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/705394993 View