General Correspondence -- 1976-1979

File — Folder: 4

Identifier: Folder 4

Staff Only

Includes general correspondence, among which: TL of Judge Wisdom to Mrs. Penny [Wisdom] Tose, on his opinion in Melancon v. McKeithen, 345 F.Supp. 1025 (E.D.La. 1972)Â (three-judge court); TLS of Judge Wisdom to Professor John L. Carmichael Jr., University of Alabama in Birmingham, referring to Justice Black; TLS of Edward J. Frey, Union Bank and Trust Co., Grand Rapids, Mich., referring to President Ford; TLS of Dean Mentchikoff, University of Miami School of Law, to Judge Wisdom, and TL of Judge Wisdom to Mentchikoff, on the 1976 meeting of the Visiting Committee of the University of Miami Law School; TL of Judge Wisdom to Judge Goldberg referring to their association on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals; TL of Judge Wisdom to Mrs. Tom C. Clark, on the death of Justice Clark; TL and TLS of Alanson W. Willcox and TLS of Judge Wisdom, on St. John Barrett, U.S. Department of Justice; TLS of Judge Dyer to Judge Wisdom on their association on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals; TL of Judge Wisdom to Judge Dawkins (W.D.La.) referring to the appointment of Judge Dawkins to the Western District of Louisiana and to his own status as senior judge; TL of Judge Wisdom to Judge Vance (11th Cir.) on the appointment of the latter to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals; TL of Judge Wisdom to Judge Collins (E.D.La.) on the appointment of the latter to the Eastern District of Louisiana; TLS of John Geiser III, New Orleans, La., on the Tulane University Library Oral History Program; TLS of Judge Philip Woodward, Supreme Court of Australia, referring to his commission of enquiry into drug trafficking in New South Wales; TL of Judge Wisdom to Attorney General Bell, referring to vacancies on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, on Harry McCall, attorney, New Orleans, La., as a candidate for the court, and referring to [United States v. Texas Education Agency, 467 F.2d 848 (1972), mot. den. 470 F.2d 1001 (5th Cir. 1973)] the positions of Judges Bell and Wisdom in that case, and the likely position of McCall in such cases; TLS of Bell on McCall, referring to Henry Politz, and to the appointment process; TLS of Judge Wisdom to Bell on Marian Mayer Berkett as a possible candidate for the court; and, TL of Judge Wisdom to Bell on Justice Tate as a possible candidate for the court, and, referring to McCall, Berkett, and Politz; and, TLS of Bell to Judge Wisdom, referring to Justice Tate; TLS of Judge Wisdom to Judge Thornberry on Judge Thornberry's status as senior judge, on their association on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and referring to the opinions of Judge Thornberry in Hollywood Golf Estates, Inc. v. Nello L. Teer Co., 353 F.2d 485 (5th Cir. 1965), United States v. State of Texas, 252 F.Supp. 234 (W.D.Tex. 1966), In re Yarn Processing, 498 F.2d 271 (5th Cir. 1974), and to the Thornberry dissenting opinions in [Goolsby v. Blumenthal, 581 F.2d 455 (5th Cir. 1978), Rummel v. Estelle, 568 F.2d 1193 (5th Cir. 1978), and Universal Amusement Co., Inc., 559 F.2d 1286 (5th Cir. 1977)].