Correspondence, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals -- 1956-1974

File — Folder: 7

Identifier: Folder 7

Staff Only

Includes select correspondence with Judge Rives, among which: TLS of Judge Rives on the merits and the opinion in Lo Frese v. Hayes, 240 F.2d 277 (5th Cir. 1957); TLS of Judge Rives on resignation as Chief Judge and referring to Judges Hutcheson and Tuttle; TLS of Judge Rives to James J. Carter, President of the Alabama State Bar, TLS (2) of Judge Rives to Charles Clark, Special Assistant Attorney General, State of Mississippi, TL of Clark to Judge Rives and TL of Clark to Carter on the November 15, 1962 proceedings in Meredith v. Fair, 313 F.2d 534 (5th Cir. 1962) and on contemporary newspaper accounts of the proceedings; TL of Judge Wisdom to Judge Rives on the 70th birthday of the latter; TL of Judge Rives to President Lyndon Johnson, on retiring from active service, referring to S.1666, referring to Civil Rights cases, and to his opinion in [Browder v. Gayle, 142 F.Supp. 707 (M.D.Ala. 1956) (three-judge court)]; TLS (2) of Judge Rives on retiring and referring to S.1666; TLS of Judge Rives on N.L.R.B. v. Alamo Express, Inc., Nos. 17,594, 21,465; TLS of Judge Rives, TLS of Judge Thornberry and TLS of Judge Bell on presiding over and assignment of cases by Senior and Active Senior Judges, and referring to the 1974 Judicial Council Meeting; and, TLS of Roy Nolen, attorney, Houston, Tex., referring to Judge Rives.