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Box MSS 2011-01, Box 3

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Contains 3 Results:

Judge Williams Sample Rulings: Labor Law, Trademark, n.d.

 File — Box: MSS 2011-01, Box 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The judicial papers of Richard L. Williams document his tenure as a judge in the Eastern District of Virginia. There are also some personal documents. The papers maintain their original organization and include chambers manuals and jury instructions, personal files, clerks' memos, memoranda from the Justice Department, opinions, orders, correspondence, both professional and personal, newspaper clippings, prisoners' correspondence, calendars, and scrapbooks. There are also files related to...
Dates: n.d.
Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections / Richard L. Williams papers / Bench Books, Chambers Manuals and Jury Instructions

Judge Williams Sample documents: bench memorandum, memorandum opinion, findings of fact and conclusion of law, voir dire, summary, general verdict form, sentencing bench memorandum, special verdict form, bench memorandum, Fourth Circuit Court Memo, Fourth Circuit opinion, order of amendment, Judge’s grammatical corrections, 1990s

 File — Box: MSS 2011-01, Box 3
Scope and Contents

(2 folders)

Dates: Majority of material found in 1990s
Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections / Richard L. Williams papers / Bench Books, Chambers Manuals and Jury Instructions

Professional and personal correspondence between Judge Williams and fellow judges, primarily from the Eastern District of Virginia; clerks (“formers” as Judge Williams called his former clerks); family and friends, school children thank-you notes; correspondence with prisoners. Administrative memoranda from the Department of Justice, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia; United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; Judicial Conference of the United States, Administrative Office of the United States Courts. Also included are Judge Williams “memo[s] to the file” written following oral arguments of cases; Report of the Security Committee for the Eastern District of Virginia (4/17/1989), 1988-1989

 File — Box: MSS 2011-01, Box 3
Scope and Contents

(5 folders)

Dates: 1988-1989
Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections / Richard L. Williams papers / Chronological Files (1988-2010)