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[Wesley Phelps interview with Chris Haight, October 21, 2022]

Description: Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded on October 21st, 2022 in Houston, Texas. In this interview, Chris Haight discusses the lives and deaths of John Griffin and Tommy Lee Tremble, two gay men who were close friends and roommates in Dallas in the 1980s. Haight discusses their negative treatment through newspaper coverage following their murders and the significance of applying humanity to their cases. Haight continues on to describe the trial and arrest of R… more
Date: October 21, 2022
Duration: 40 minutes
Creator: Phelps, Wes
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Wesley Phelps interview with Lori Montgomery, October 14, 2022]

Description: Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded on October 14th, 2022 in Washington, D.C. Phelps interviews Lori Montgomery over her involvement with the murder case of Tommy Lee Tremble and John Griffin as a police reporter in 1988. She speaks on an interview conducted with Judge Jack Hampton, the Dallas criminal district court judge criticized for his lenient sentencing of Richard Bednarski, murderer of Tremble and Griffin. Montgomery discusses homophobic comments m… more
Date: October 14, 2022
Duration: 38 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Phelps, Wes
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[Wesley Phelps interview with William Waybourn, September 27, 2022]

Description: Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded on September 29th, 2022 in Washington D.C. Phelps interviews William Waybourn over his experiences as a gay activist in Dallas in the 1970s and 1980s. Waybourn discusses the roll the Dallas Gay Political Caucus played in delivering services to the Dallas LGBT population. Waybourn also speaks on major events in Dallas LGBT history such as the case of Baker v. Wade, Mica England's battle against discrimination in the Dalla… more
Date: September 27, 2022
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Phelps, Wes
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U.S. Circuit and District Court Judges: Profile of Select Characteristics

Description: This report addresses ongoing congressional interest in the demographic characteristics and professional experiences of those individuals nominated and appointed to fill lower federal court judgeships. It focuses on demographic and other background characteristics of active U.S. circuit and district court judges who are currently serving on the federal bench.
Date: August 1, 2017
Creator: McMillion, Barry J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Majority, Concurring, and Dissenting Opinions Authored by Judge Merrick Garland

Description: This report identifies and briefly summarizes each of the more than 350 cases in which Judge Garland has authored a majority, concurring, or dissenting opinion. Arguably, these written opinions provide the greatest insight into Judge Garland's judicial approach, as a judge's vote in a case or decision to join an opinion authored by a colleague may be based upon a number of considerations and may not necessarily represent full agreement with a joined opinion.
Date: May 2, 2016
Creator: Mason, R. C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Judge Merrick Garland: His Jurisprudence and Potential Impact on the Supreme Court

Description: This report provides an overview of Judge Garland's jurisprudence and discusses what the impact on the Court might be if he, or a judge of a similar judicial approach, were to be confirmed to succeed Justice Scalia. The report begins with his views on two overarching issues -- the role of the judiciary and statutory interpretation -- it then addresses 14 separate areas of law, which are arranged in alphabetical order from "administrative law" to "takings."
Date: April 27, 2016
Creator: Nolan, Andrew; Manuel, Kate M. & Murrill, Brandon J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Criminal Justice Reform: One Judge's View

Description: This report briefly provides highlights from an article written by Judge Alex Kozinski of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in which he recommended 26 changes in the U.S. criminal justice system, federal and state.
Date: January 1, 2016
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Number of African American Judges Reaches All-Time High; Do Issues Remain?

Description: This report provides historical and statistical information related to the appointment of African Americans as U.S. circuit and district court judges. Such information addresses ongoing congressional interest in the demographic characteristics of lower federal court judges.
Date: February 23, 2015
Creator: McMillion, Barry J.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Role of Home State Senators in the Selection of Lower Federal Court Judges

Description: This report examines the role that home state Senators, historically and in the contemporary era, have played in the selection of nominees to U.S. district court and circuit court of appeals judgeships. It also identifies issues that have arisen in recent years over the role of home state Senators in the selection process for federal judges.
Date: February 11, 2013
Creator: Rutkus, Denis Steven
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Nominations to U.S. Circuit and District Courts by President Obama During the 111th and 112th Congresses

Description: Recent Senate debates in the 112th Congress over judicial nominations have focused on issues such as the relative degree of success of President Barack Obama's nominees in gaining Senate confirmation (compared with other recent Presidents) as well as the effect of delayed judicial appointments on judicial vacancy levels. The following report addresses these issues, and others, by providing a statistical overview of President Obama's nominees to U.S. circuit court of appeals and U.S. district co… more
Date: June 1, 2012
Creator: McMillion, Barry J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Judicial Discipline Process: An Overview

Description: The first part of this report covers the process for handling complaints against federal judges and judicial discipline, which was enacted on November 2, 2002 as the Judicial Improvements Act of 2002. The second part of this report covers two impeachments during the 111th Congress, those of Judge Samuel B. Kent and Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr.
Date: April 7, 2011
Creator: Barbour, Emily C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Supreme Court Nominations: Senate Floor Procedure and Practice, 1789-2011

Description: This report examines the ways in which the Senate has handled the 160 Supreme Court nominations the President has sent to the Senate. As the purpose of this report is to examine the forms taken by Senate proceedings on these 160 nominations, it treats each nomination as a separate case. It is not couched in terms of the smaller number of different individuals nominated or the ultimate outcome the confirmation process may have had for each individual.
Date: March 11, 2011
Creator: Beth, Richard S. & Palmer, Betsy
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Role of Home State Senators in the Selection of Lower Federal Court Judges

Description: This report examines the role played by Senators in the selection of nominees to two kinds of lower federal court judgeships. Specifically, the judgeships in question, over which Senators have historically played a role in nominee selection, are those (1) in the U.S. district courts lying geographically within the Senators' states and (2) in the U.S. court of appeals circuits of which the Senators' states are a geographic part. This report also discusses several historical and ethical aspects r… more
Date: November 10, 2010
Creator: Rutkus, Denis Steven
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Role of the Senate in Judicial Impeachment Proceedings: Procedure, Practice, and Data

Description: This report examines the history, practice, and procedures of the Senate in fulfilling its constitutional obligation to try and to vote whether to convict and impose judgment upon judges impeached by the House of Representatives. It includes an overview of the process, and sections that discuss rules governing Senate impeachment proceedings, organizing the Senate for trial, the role of the Presiding Officer, the use of an impeachment trial committee, deliberation and judgment by the full senate… more
Date: April 9, 2010
Creator: Smelcer, Susan Navarro
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Judge Sonia Sotomayor: Analysis of Selected Opinions

Description: This report provides an analysis of selected opinions authored by Judge Sotomayor during her tenure as a judge on the Second Circuit. Discussions of the selected opinions are grouped according to various topics of legal significance.
Date: June 19, 2009
Creator: Henning, Anna C. & Thomas, Kenneth R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Nominations to Article III Lower Courts by President George W. Bush During the 110th Congress

Description: This report tracks nominations made by President George W. Bush to judgeships on the U.S. courts of appeals, the U.S. district courts, and the U.S. Court of International Trade — the lower courts on which, pursuant to Article III of the Constitution, judges serve "during good Behaviour." It lists and keeps count of all nominations made to these courts during the 110th Congress, including pertinent actions taken by the Senate Judiciary Committee and the full Senate. It also tracks the number of … more
Date: October 20, 2008
Creator: Rutkus, Denis Steven & Bearden, Maureen
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Administrative Law Judges: An Overview

Description: This report summarizes what an administrative law judge (ALJ) is, what they do, and their responsibilities as one. Moreover, the report explains that ALJ's have both a rulemaking and judicial role in work done by executive agencies. Finally, the report emphasizes the differences between ALJs and non-ALJs that also conduct judicial activities in federal agencies.
Date: August 5, 2008
Creator: Burrows, Vanessa K.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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