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Railway Labor Executives' Association V. Gibbons (1980)

 

Document 1

From: Byron R. White
To: John Paul Stevens
Copied: Conference
On: April 24th, 1981
Action: Suggestion to Order
This includes memos with suggestions for changes in an order that does not dispose of the case. The identity of the justice who proposed the order is located in the JOINED variable.

Document 2

From: John Paul Stevens
To: Byron R. White
Copied: Conference
On: April 24th, 1981
Action: Majority Opinion Author's Response
May be response to a suggestion, reservation, or a separate opinion; may also say that author will respond to another opinion; may state majority opinion author's change to opinion that was not prompted by another justice; may indicate that the opinion is different from the conference discussion; may be a circulation of a portion of the opinion (a footnote, multiple pages without circulating the whole opinion); may be a suggestion from the majority opinion author regarding several options for changing majority opinion; may be a suggestion from the author for a change that could be made to opinion