Advisory Council for Appellate Justice;Â Circuit Realignment -- 1974-1975

File — Folder: 1

Identifier: Folder 1

Staff Only

Includes correspondence and other memoranda on S.2990 and the Subcommittee on Improvements in Judicial Machinery, among which, TLS of Judge Gewin, TLS (2) of Cicero C. Sessions, attorney, New Orleans, La., to K. Breard, President, Louisiana Bar Association, and TLS of Breard to Sessions. Also includes holograph notes of Judge Wisdom on the January 7, 1975 Meeting of the judges of the proposed Western Division; and, TLS of Judge Brown to Judge Gewin on the January 1975 Joint Meeting of the judges of the proposed Eastern and Western Divisions. And includes TLS of Senator Burdick to Judge Wisdom, TLS of Judge Hufstedler, TLS (2) of Judge Rives to Deputy Counsel William Weller, and TL of Judge Wisdom to Terrence R. Murphy, attorney, Washington, D.C., on this and earlier efforts to divide the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. And includes TLS (and partial holograph draft) of Judge Wisdom to Senator Eastland on S.729 and the Report to accompany S.729; and, TLS of Senator Bayh (Ind.) and TLS of Judge Coleman to Senator Eastland on S.729 and the Wisdom TLS. And includes correspondence and other memoranda, among which, holograph notes of Judge Wisdom and TLS of Judge Bell on the March 1975 hearings before the Burdick Committee.