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U.S. District Courts for the Districts of Michigan: Records and Bibliography

Official Records

The records of the U.S. District Courts for the Districts of Michigan are included among Record Group 21 at the:

        National Archives at Chicago
        7358 South Pulaski Road
        Chicago, Illinois 60629-5898

        Email: chicago.archives@nara.gov

A guide to the holdings of the regional archives is available at: https://www.archives.gov/chicago/holdings

A finding aid for a portion of the records is available at: https://www.archives.gov/chicago/finding-aids/courts/us-courts-detroit.html

A published description of the records is also available in the Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States, 1995 (http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/index.html ).

Bibliography

Chardavoyne, David Gardner. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan: People, Law, and Politics. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2012.

Cohn, Avern, et. al. "The Federal Districts of Michigan." Michigan Bar Journal 67 (May 1988): 354-360.

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