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Book/Printed Material Collection Manuscript/Mixed Material Harry A. Blackmun papers, 1913-2001: Supreme Court File, 1918-1999; Subject File, 1948-1999; Oral history project; Transcript, final, 1997

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Title

  • Harry A. Blackmun papers, 1913-2001: Supreme Court File, 1918-1999; Subject File, 1948-1999; Oral history project; Transcript, final, 1997

Summary

  • Correspondence, appointment books, memoranda, case files, legal papers, subject files, speeches, and writings chiefly documenting Blackmun's career as associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1970-1994) and as judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals (8th Circuit). Also includes material relating to his boyhood in Saint Paul, Minn., his undergraduate and law school studies at Harvard University, his private law practice in Minneapolis, Minn., his work as counsel for the Mayo Clinic and Mayo Association, and his association with the Advisory Committee on Judicial Activities for the Judicial Conference of the United States, Aspen Institute, and the United Methodist Church.
  • U.S. Court of Appeals case topics include taxation, civil rights, and labor, administrative, constitutional, and criminal law. Documents Blackmun's decision to declare the use of corporal punishment in prisons unconstitutional.
  • Subjects in the Supreme Court files include abortion rights, adoption, research use of fetal tissues, reverse discrimination, and legal issues stemming from the Watergate affair.
  • Correspondents include Robert A. Bezoier, Myron H. Bright, Warren E. Burger, Daniel C. Connolly, James Russell Eckman, Felix Frankfurter, Erwin N. Griswold, Henry Earnest Halladay, Russell C. Jewell, A. M. Keith, Robert E. Merry, Roy M. Mersky, Norval Morris, John Bell Sanborn, James F. Simon, Scott Turow, and Charles Alan Wright.

Names

  • Blackmun, Harry A. (Harry Andrew), 1908-1999 (Interviewee)
  • Koh, Harold Hongju, 1954-

Created / Published

  • 1997

Headings

  • -  United States. Supreme Court
  • -  Blackmun, Harry A. (Harry Andrew), 1908-1999--Interviews
  • -  Judges--United States--Interviews
  • -  Transcriptions
  • -  United States

Genre

  • Transcriptions

Call Number/Physical Location

  • series: Supreme Court File, 1918-1999
  • Box: Box 1429

Source Collection

  • Harry A. Blackmun Papers

Repository

  • Manuscript Division

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • mm99084430

Access Advisory

  • Open to research.

Online Format

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  • pdf
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Blackmun, Harry A, and Harold Hongju Koh. Harry A. Blackmun papers, -2001: Supreme Court File, 1918 to 1999; Subject File, 1948 to 1999; Oral history project; Transcript, final, 1997. 1997. Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/mm99084430/.

APA citation style:

Blackmun, H. A. & Koh, H. H. (1997) Harry A. Blackmun papers, -2001: Supreme Court File, 1918 to 1999; Subject File, 1948 to 1999; Oral history project; Transcript, final, 1997. [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/mm99084430/.

MLA citation style:

Blackmun, Harry A, and Harold Hongju Koh. Harry A. Blackmun papers, -2001: Supreme Court File, 1918 to 1999; Subject File, 1948 to 1999; Oral history project; Transcript, final, 1997. 1997. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/mm99084430/>.