Screening Rules Committee, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals -- 1968-1973

File — Folder: 2

Identifier: Folder 2

Staff Only

Includes memoranda and correspondence on screening procedures of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, among which: Reports of Presiding Judges; Clerk's Reports; TLS of Judge Bell on screening procedure in civil and criminal cases, generally, and on the position of Judge Coleman on the same; memoranda and correspondence on items on the Agenda for the May 1969 Judicial Council Meeting; TL of Judge Wisdom, TLS of Chief Judge Brown and memoranda on Cuffie v. Wainwright, 421 F.2d 696 (5th Cir. 1970); TLS of Judge Carswell, TLS of Judge Clark and TLS of Judge Bell on United States v. Luis, 418 F.2d 439 (5th Cir. 1969), reh'g den. 422 F.2d 1322 (1970) and a possible dissent to be filed by Judge Wisdom in that case; TLS of Chief Judge Brown on his opinion in Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York, 431 F.2d 409 (5th Cir. 1970); and, TLS of Judge Simpson referring to Gallaher v. Phillips, 456 F.2d 1311 (5th Cir. 1972), Murphy v. Houma, 409 F.2d 804 (5th Cir. 1969), and Huth v. Southern Pacific Co., 417 F.2d 526 (5th Cir. 1969), and on 'the Rule of Unanimity' in screening cases, generally.