Advisory Council for Appellate Justice;Ã‚Â Circuit Realignment -- 1973

File — Folder: 3

Identifier: Folder 3

Staff Only

Includes TLS of Chief Judge Brown on the August 1973 hearings of the Commission on Revision of the Federal Court Appellate System; and, statements read by the judges of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals before the Commission. Also includes TLS of Judge Tuttle, TL of Judge Wisdom co Professor Levin, TL of Judge Wisdom to Judge Friendly, TL of Judge Wisdom to B. Segal, TL of Judge wisdom to Justice Brennan, TL of Judge Wisdom to Chief Justice Warren, TL of Judge Wisdom to Ashton Phelps, Publisher, Times Picayune/States Item, New Orleans, La., TL of Judge wisdom to Senator Johnston, and TLS of Judge- Wisdom to former law clerks Robert Barnett, Jack Weiss, and John Buckley, on the proposed realignment of che circuits and the statement of Judge Wisdom before the Commission. And includes TLS of John P. Frank, attorney, Phoenix, Az., TLS of Judge Hufstedler (9th Cir.), TLS of Judge Gewin, TLS of Judge McCree (6th Cir.), TLS of Professor Rosenberg, TLS of Professor Meador, TLS of Judge Friendly, TLS of Professor Levin, TLS of Judge Lumbard, TLS of Justice Tace, TLS of M. Truman Woodward, accorney, New Orleans, La., TLS of Professor Freund, TLS of Orison S. Marden accorney, N.Y., N.Y., TLS of John R. Marczell, accorney, New Orleans, La., and TLS of Professor Alexander Bickel, Yale Universicy School of Law, on Che scacemenc of Judge Wisdom before che Commission. And includes TLS (3) and ANS of B. Segal on the proposed realignment of the circuits, the statement of Judge Wisdom before the Commission, and on the Fifth Circuit court of Appeals screening procedure; and, TLS of Judge Jones on the Segal correspondence, on Fifth Circuit Local Rule 21 and screening procedures, on his own status as a senior judge, and on the failure of the active judges to solicit his views as to Fifth Circuit procedure and proposed circui realignment. And includes partial holograph supplemental statement to the Commission of Judge Wisdom. And includes TLS of Professor Wright, TL of Allen D. Black, attorney, Philadelphia, Pa., draft TL of Chief Judge Brown (bearing holograph revisions of Judge Wisdom), TLS (bearing holograph notes) of Judge Wisdom, TLS of Judge Gee to Professor Levin, TLS of Victor A. Sachse, attorney, Baton Rouge, La., to Judge Wisdom, TL of Judge wisdom to Sachse, TL of Judge Wisdom to Black, and TL of Judge Wisdom to Emmett Kerrington, attorney, New Orleans, La., on the proposal of the Commission.