Inside the Supreme Court
Petition to Decision
Papers of Supreme Court Justices on Civil Rights Cases
David Achtenberg
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UMKC School of Law
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| The documents in this web
page were photographed from originals found in the private papers of the
Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, located as follows:
Justice Blackmun:
Justice Brennan:
Justice Marshall:
Justice Powell
Justice Stewart Potter Stewart Papers (MS 1367) Manuscripts and Archives Yale University Library New Haven, CT
Justice White: The Byron R. White Papers Library of Congress, Washington, DC The unfailing courtesy and outstanding assistance of the Manuscript Reference Librarians at the Library of Congress, particularly Bruce Kirby, of the Manuscript and Archives Librarians at the Yale University Library, and of John Jacobs at the Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives are gratefully acknowledged. Michael Barzee, Kristen Thurmond, Erin Fischer, and Justin Crozier provided outstanding research assistance in connection with this site. Tamara Shinn and Gloria Herron worked tirelessly to convert files into more readable form. Finally, Sharon Kennedy took a week from her active law practice to help her alma mater and former professor in his research at the Library of Congress. My sincere thanks to all of them. Without their help, this website could not have been created. Most of the documents from the Byron White papers were originally photographed by Professor Lynda Dodd, the Joseph Flom Professor of Legal Studies at CCNY, and her research assistants, as part or her ongoing scholarship on the history of Section 1983. Her generous permission to convert those photographs to pdfs and to use them on this website is gratefully acknowledged. |
The document files you view
on this website are pdf versions digital photographic copies of the
original documents found in the sources described to the left.
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.
For example, a memo given the original image number WJB437F60073 was found in the William J. Brennan Collection, in Box 437 File 6 and was the 73rd page in that file. Note that the last four digits indicate the page number. As a result, a number like LFP189F100002, indicates the second page of Box 189 File 10, not File 1. Occasionally, I failed to restart the numbering for a particular box or file or took multiple photographs of a single document. In those situations, the "page" number will accurately indicate the order in which the various documents appeared, but will not necessarily indicate the number of pages that preceded each document. In the pdf document, the image number of the first page of the document appears as part of the pdf file name. (See red underlining below.) If the document has more than one page, the image of each page appears as a bookmark name. (See red arrow below.)
Most of the documents from the Byron R. White Papers were photographed using a different storage and numbering system. As a result, the pdf copies of those documents indicate the box number where the original can be found, but not the file or page number. For example, pdf document BRW478Fxx1429 can be found in Box 478 of the Byron White Papers but its designation does not indicate the file or page number within that box. |
