Blackmun, Harry A. (Harry Andrew) 1908-1999 creator mixed material monographic eng 530,800 1,576 9 630.2 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. Open to research. Sound recordings and videotape recordings transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division. Lawyer, judge, and U.S. Supreme Court justice. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003030 Bezoier, Robert A Correspondence Bright, Myron H Correspondence Burger, Warren E 1907-1995 Correspondence Connolly, Daniel C Correspondence Eckman, James Russell 1908- Correspondence Frankfurter, Felix 1882-1965 Correspondence Griswold, Erwin N. (Erwin Nathaniel) 1904-1994 Correspondence Halladay, Henry Earnest 1915- Correspondence Jewell, Russell C Correspondence Keith, A. M 1928- Correspondence Merry, Robert E. (Robert Ellsworth) 1920- Correspondence Mersky, Roy M Correspondence Morris, Norval Correspondence Sanborn, John Bell 1876- Correspondence Simon, James F Correspondence Turow, Scott Correspondence Wright, Charles Alan Correspondence Aspen Institute. Harvard Law School Students Harvard University Students Judicial Conference of the United States. Advisory Committee on Judicial Activities. Mayo Association. Mayo Clinic. United Methodist Church (U.S.) United States. Court of Appeals (8th Circuit) United States. Supreme Court. Abortion Law and legislation United States Administrative law United States Adoption Law and legislation United States Civil rights United States Constitutional law United States Corporal punishment United States Criminal law United States Fetal tissues Research Law and legislation United States Labor laws and legislation United States Law United States Practice of law Minnesota Minneapolis Prisons Law and legislation United States Reverse discrimination Law and legislation United States Taxation Law and legislation United States Watergate Affair, 1972-1974 Saint Paul (Minn.) History Jurists mm 99084430 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms003030 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms003030.3 http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/blackmun/ http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003030 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003030.3 http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/blackmun/ Open to research. DLC 990920 20260227111728.0 mm 99084430