Professional and personal correspondence. 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; RLW “memos to the file”, orders, correspondence. Includes letter sent to the congressional leadership attaching a statement by law school deans opposing threats of retaliation against federal judges for decisions they have made on the bench (May 2005) , 2005

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