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

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

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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.

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Douglas, Kirk, 1916-

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Fahy, Charles, 1892-1979

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