Inside the Supreme Court

Petition to Decision

Papers of Supreme Court Justices on Civil Rights Cases

David Achtenberg

Professor & Law Foundation Scholar

UMKC School of Law

Kansas City, MO 64110-2499

816-235-2382

AchtenbergD@umkc.edu

Document Sources

Original Document Sources

Determining Original Image Location

The documents in this web page were photographed from originals found in the private papers of Justice Powell which are located at:  The Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Papers, Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archive Washington & Lee University School of Law Lexington, VA Finding Aid (General) Finding Aid (Supreme Court Cases) The unfailing courtesy and outstanding assistance of of John Jacobs at the Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives is gratefully acknowledged.   Stephanie Outlaw, George Ngengwe, Sarah Liesen, and Michael Barzee provided outstanding research assistance in connection with this site.  LaDonna McCullough and Tamara Shinn worked tirelessly to convert files into more readable form.  My sincere thanks to all of them.  Without their help, this website could not have been created.

The document files you view on this website are pdf versions of digital photographic copies of the original documents found in the Powell Papers.  The image storage system automatically assigned an image code to each image that indicated the collection, box, file and page at which it was found.  However, in two respects, the naming of digital files in this portion of the website is different than the naming system for ordinary case specific digital files.  First, many of the original files had rather long file names rather than numbers, e.g. "Supreme Court - Memoranda - Legal Issues - Civil Rights Act - General   1973 - June 15, 1977"  As a result, the digital image may have a name like LFP131CRAGenF10002 which would indicate that it was found in Box 131B in a file with a name that has been shortened to "CRAGenF1" and was the second page copied.  See below Second, since this portion of the website contains only selected documents from the original boxes and files, the final portion of the image number (0002 in the example above) indicates that it was the second page copied from that box and file, but not necessarily the second page contained in the file.  In the pdf document, the image number of the first page appears as part of the pdf file name.   (See red underlining below.)  If the document has more than one page, the image numbers of each page appear as bookmark names.  (See red arrow below.)