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Oral history interview with Wallace P. Carson, Jr. conducted by Clark Hansen from June 12 to October 24, 1996, as part of the United States District Court Oral History Project. Carson served on the Oregon Supreme Court from 1982 to 2006 and was chief justice for 14 years.

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Oral history interview with W. Michael Gillette conducted by Michael O’Rourke from May 16, 2012, to December 10, 2014, as part of the United States District Court of Oregon Oral History Project. Gillette discusses his career as a lawyer and prosecutor in Oregon and American Samoa, and his service as a judge on the Oregon Court of Appeals from 1977 to 1986, and as a justice on the Oregon Supreme Court from 1986 to 2010.

Abstract Papers of Alfred T. Goodwin (1923-2022), a judge from Oregon. The bulk of the papers relate to his career as a judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for more than 40 years. The collection also includes papers from earlier periods of his career, when he served as an Oregon Supreme Court justice and then as a judge on the U.S. District Court of Oregon, as well as other personal and professional papers. Goodwin served on the Oregon Supreme Court from 1960 to 1969, as a U.S. District Court...

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Oral history interview with Randall B. Kester conducted by Donna L. Sinclair from February 21 to May 11, 2005, as part of the United States District Court Oral History Project. Kester was a lawyer and served on the Oregon Supreme Court from 1957 to 1958.

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Oral history interview with Hans A. Linde conducted by Rick Harmon and Michael O’Rourke from January 15, 2002, to February 3, 2004, as part of the United States District Court of Oregon Oral History Project. Linde discusses his career as a professor of law at the University of Oregon and several other institutions, and his service as a justice on the Oregon Supreme Court from 1977 to 1990.

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Oral history interview with Hall Stoner Lusk conducted by Linda S. Dodds from December 18, 1981, to January 20, 1982. Lusk was an attorney and an Oregon Supreme Court justice.

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Thomas Benton Odeneal served as editor of the Corvallis Gazette, as a Benton County judge, and as Oregon Superintendent of Indian Affairs. Collection consists of manuscript correspondence, 1873-1883, regarding cases coming before the Oregon Supreme Court. Correspondents include Ellis G. Hughes and William W. Chapman.

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The Oregon Text Book Case involved a group of taxpayers in Oregon City suing to stop their school district from furnishing books for a Catholic elementary school. Collection includes legal documents presented before or issued by the Circuit Court of Clackamas County, the Oregon State Supreme Court, and the U.S. Supreme Court, including briefs, memoranda, depositions, transcripts, opinions, appeals, and judgments.

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Oral history interview with Edwin J. Peterson conducted by Jeffrey C. Dobbins from August 21 to December 11, 2007, as part of the United States District Court of Oregon Oral History Project. Peterson discusses his youth and education, as well as his career as a lawyer in Portland, Oregon, and as chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.

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Papers of Edwin J. Peterson, including notebooks, bound volumes of his judicial opinions, photograph albums, and scrapbooks. Peterson was a justice on the Oregon Supreme Court from 1979 to 1993, and was chief justice from 1981 to 1991.