Advisory Council for Appellate Justic; Circuit Realignment -- 1965-1966

File — Folder: 2

Identifier: Folder 2

Staff Only

Includes correspondence and memoranda on the contemplated realignment of the Circuit Courts of Appeals, among which: Resolution of the Southern Regional Council, November 20-21, 1964; and, TLS of Nat Welch on the Resolution; Resolution of the A.B.A. Council of the Section of Judicial Administration; TLS and TL of B.G. Segal, ANS of Chief Judge Tuttle to Judge Wisdom and TL of Judge Wisdom on the A.B.A. Resolution; TL of B.G. Segal to Justice Brennan on the May 1965 Meeting of the Board of Governors of the A.B.A.; and, TLS of Segal on adoption of the Resolution by the Board; TLS and TL of Segal, TLS of Judge Wright and TL of Judge Wisdom on a proposed A.B.F. Study of circuit realignment. Also includes TL and TLS of Judge Rives to Senators Hill (Ala.) and Sparkman (Ala.), TLS of Judge Rives to Senator Hill, TL (2) of Senator Hill to Judge Rives, and TL of Senator Sparkman to Judge Rives on the proposed Omnibus Judgship Bill, and on the retirement of Judge Rives; and, draft TL of Judge Brown, TL of Judge Brown to Judge Tuttle, TL of Judge Brown to Judge Rives, TL of Judge Brown to Judge Bell, and AN of Judge Brown to Judge Wisdom on the Omnibus Bill and the retirement of Judge Rives. And includes TLS of Judge Haynsworth (4th Cir.) to Judge Tuttle, TLS of Judge Bell, TLS of Judge Rives, TLS cf Professor Wright to President Lyndon Johnson, and TLS of Professor Wright to Judge Brown on the Omnibus Bill.