Appellate Case Files, March 3, 1891–1998

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Appellate Case Files, March 3, 1891–1998

1891-1998

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/562789

These pleading case files consist of case papers filed in appeals and original cases heard by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in St. Louis, Missouri. Documents commonly found in pleading case files include receipts, citations, complaints, correspondence, petitions, motions, assignments of errors, mandates, orders, decrees, and judgments. Files occasionally contain documents originally filed in a lower court or in the Supreme Court. Cases that were filed after 1975 will generally include the related briefs and appendices. Prior to 1975, Court Officials stored the briefs and appendices separately from the Appellate Case Files. Types of cases heard by Eighth Circuit included criminal and civil proceedings, occasional bankruptcy cases, patent, trademark, and copyright infringement cases, appeals from the Tax Court, petitions for review of Federal agency decisions, and paid writs.

3577 linear feet, 7 linear inches

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National Archives at Kansas City

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SNAC Resource ID: 11673276

National Archives at Kansas City

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McConnell, Michael, 1942-

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Michael McConnell was born in 1942, grew up in Oklahoma, and received his Master’s degree in Library Science in the early 1960s. He met Jack Baker in Norman, Oklahoma in 1966. McConnell and Baker, committed to each other as life partners with the intention of becoming legally married, moved to Lawrence, Kansas in 1968. McConnell worked as an acquisitions and reference librarian at Park College, while Baker commuted to an engineering job in Topeka. In 1969, both men moved to Minneapolis. McConn...

Baker, Jack, 1942-

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Jack Baker is a gay activist. His marriage to Michael McConnell in 1971 sparked controversy; they were the first same-sex couple to be married legally with a license that was never revoked. Their wedding became the earliest same-sex marriage ever to be recorded in the public files of any civil government. In late 1971, the Minnesota Supreme Court in Baker v. Nelson affirmed the lower court order to deny a marriage license to same-sex partners. Their appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court was accepted ...