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U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit: Records and Bibliography

Official Records

The records of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit are included among Record Group 276 at the:   

       National Archives at Kansas City
       400 West Pershing Road
       Kansas City, Missouri 64108   

       Email: kansascity.archives@nara.gov

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

A published description of the records is 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

History of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in the Country's Bicentennial Year. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1977.

Howard, J. Woodford. Courts of Appeals in the Federal Judicial System: A Study of the Second, Fifth, and District of Columbia Circuits. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981.

Morris, Jeffrey Brandon. Calmly to Poise the Scales of Justice: A History of the Courts of the District of Columbia Circuit. Published for the Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit. Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2001.

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