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
| Burrell Home |
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Blackmun Files |
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Brennan Files |
| Marshall Files |
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Powell Files |
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Stewart Files |
| White Files |
| Abbreviations |
| Burrell v. McCray | ||||||
| The Powell Files | ||||||
| In Box and File Order | ||||||
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| Box 178 File 1 | ||||||
| Brief Description | Date | Begins | Ends | |||
| Memo LFP to self (Limitations on Section 1983) | 7/31/1975 | LFP178F10002 | LFP178F10007 | |||
| Memo WHB to Conference (Pool) with LFP and JPJ notes | 9/9/1975 | LFP178F10008 | LFP178F10020 | |||
| Memo LFP to self (re Burrell) | 9/19/1975 | LFP178F10021 | LFP178F10022 | |||
| LFP Docket Sheet (indicating the initial Burrell cert vote and that LFP requested it be relisted to 10/31) | 10/10/1975 | LFP178F10023 | ||||
| LFP Docket Sheet (indicating final Burrell cert vote (4 grant, 4 deny, Douglas absent) | 10/31/1975 | LFP178F10024 | ||||
| Box 178 File 2 | ||||||
| Brief Description | Date | Begins | Ends | |||
| Memo JPJ to LFP (re Burrell and methods to limit § 1983) | 4/22/1976 | LFP178F20002 | LFP178F20027 | |||
| Box 178 File 3 | ||||||
| Brief Description | Date | Begins | Ends | |||
| Memo LFP to self (re Burrell including sections on exhaustion and on whether Monroe should be overruled) | 4/27/1976 | LFP178F30002 | LFP178F30008 | |||
| LFP Oral Argument Notes | 4/27/1976 | LFP178F30009 | LFP178F30011 | |||
| LFP Conference Notes | 4/30/1976 | LFP178F30012 | LFP178F30013 | |||
| Memo WJB to WEB (opposing suggestion that Burrell be DIG'd, i.e., dismissed as improvidently granted) | 5/5/1976 | LFP178F30014 | ||||
| Memo LFP to self (re case to review re Burrell) | 5/10/1976 | LFP178F30015 | ||||
| Memo PS to Conference (recommending DIG Burrell) | 5/12/1976 | LFP178F30016 | ||||
| Memo LFP to WEB (reluctantly agreeing to DIG Burrell) | 5/20/1976 | LFP178F30017 | ||||
| Memo HAB to WEB (willing to DIG Burrell) | 5/21/1976 | LFP178F30018 | ||||
| Memo WHR to WEB (will join DIG in Burrell for reasons stated by LFP) | 5/21/1976 | LFP178F30019 | ||||
| Memo WHR to WEB (agreeing with WEB) | 5/25/1976 | LFP178F30020 | ||||
| Memo HAB to WEB (agreeing with WEB) | 5/25/1976 | LFP178F30021 | ||||
| Memo PS to WEB (agreeing with WEB) | 5/25/1976 | LFP178F30022 | ||||
| Memo WJB to Conference (will write dissent from DIG) | 5/26/1976 | LFP178F30023 | ||||
| Memo BRW to WEB (will dissent from DIG) | 5/27/1976 | LFP178F30024 | ||||
| LFP Tracking Sheet (indicating chronology of WEB's DIG opinion, WJB's dissent from DIG opinion, and JPS's concurrence) | various | LFP178F30025 | ||||
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| Brief Description | Date | Begins | Ends | |||
| Memo JPJ to LFP re § 1983 (Summer Memo) | 7/31/1975 | LFP131CRANBF10004 | LFP131CRANBF10031 | |||
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| Brief Description | Date | Begins | Ends | |||
| Memo LFP to self (Limitations on § 1983) | 7/31/1975 | LFP131CRANBF20003 | LFP131CRANBF20008 | |||
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| Brief Description | Date | Begins | Ends | |||
| Memo JPJ to LFP re Burrell v McCray (Fall Memo) | 10/15/1975 | LFP131CRANBF30003 | LFP131CRANBF30019 | |||
| Memo JPJ to LFP re Burrell v McCray | 4/22/1976 | LFP131CRANBF30021 | LFP131CRANBF30046 | |||
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| Brief Description | Date | Begins | Ends | |||
| Memo LFP to JPJ re Sources to Review | 2/17/1976 | LFP131CRANBF40003 | ||||