Memoranda, January - June 1971

File — Folder: 1

Identifier: Folder 1

Staff Only

Includes correspondence and other memoranda of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, among which: Agenda of the Meeting of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation [January 22 (bearing holograph notes of Judge Wisdom); February 26 (bearing holograph notes of Judge Wisdom); and March 26 (bearing holograph notes of Judge Wisdom)]; Summary of Multidistrict Litigation [January 22; May 26] ; Report of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (bearing holograph suggested revisions and ANS of Chief Judge Becker); and, TL of Chief Judge Becker and TLS of Judge Weinfeld on the Report as first proposed; TLS (3) of Chief Judge Murrah to Judge Wisdom on the participation by the latter in the Seminars for Newly Appointed District Judges [February-March; March- April]; Agenda of the Transferee Judges Meeting [April 22-23 (bearing holograph notes of Judge Wisdom); May 27-28]; and, TL of Judge Murrah to Chief Justice Burger on the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Ligitation, generally. Also includes TLS of Paul D. Scanlon, attorney for plaintiffs in [In re Antibiotic Antitrust Actions, 333 F.Supp. 296 (S.D.N.Y. 1971)], on the merits and the proposed transfer order in that case (bearing holograph notes of Judge Wisdom). And includes TL of Judge Wisdom to John T. McDermott, Executive Attorney, Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, on the question of additional judgeships for the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.