Folder 6
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Contains 1 Collection or Record:
Case Files -- Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals En Banc Opinions, Court Term 1973-1974
File — Folder: 6
Identifier: Folder 6
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Fitzgerald v. Estelle
No. 72-2459; 505 F.2d 1334 (1974), rev'g Fitzgerald v. Beto, 479 F.2d 420 (1973), cert. den. 422 U.S. 1011 (1975)
Judge Godbold circulated a proposed opinion to affirm as modified the panel opinion. Judge Clark followed with a dissenting opinion. Enough Judges, among whom Judge Roney, contrary to his stated position at conference, concurred in the Clark opinion that it was revised to become the opinion of the court.
Includes holograph notes of Judge Wisdom on the...