Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals -- 1964-1966

File — Folder: 5

Identifier: Folder 5

Staff Only

Includes correspondence of the committee and other correspondence and memoranda on the Rules of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, among which: TLS of Judge Rives, TLS of Judge Brown, TLS of Judge Jones, TLS of Chief Judge Tuttle and TL (2) of Judge Wisdom on the power of a single judge to enter procedural orders; memoranda on Clark v. United States, 367 F.2d 378 (5th Cir. 1966) and Ballard v. United States, 368 F.2d 232 (5th Cir. 1966); and, TLS of Judge Jones, TLS of Judge Gewin, TLS of Judge Bell, TLS of Judge Brown, TLS of Judge Rives, TLS of Judge Coleman, and TLS of Chief Judge Tuttle on "legal 'representation'" of prison inmates "by fellow inmates not members of the Bar"; memoranda on procedure for processing appeals in section 2255 and habeas corpus cases; and, TLS of Judge Brown on Breland v. McLendon, No. 23,361, referring to Breland v. McLendon, 329 F.2d 315 (5th Cir. 1964), and on frivolous appeals, generally.