Access to the Working Papers of State Supreme Court Justices

Michael N. Widener

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Digital and Traditional Archives Management Judicial and Constitutional Studies Information Science and Libraries

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SUMMARY Two former Texas Supreme Court justices recently offered to donate their personal court files to the Tarlton Law Library, University of Texas at Austin. These offers forced the Law Library, the Texas Supreme Court, and the State Archives to confront several issues. Should such files ever be made public? If so, what would be an appropriate waiting period? What research value, if any, do such papers have? These working files would be valued not only by legal historians, but also by litigants, voters, and political opponents, raising some sticky access issues.

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