Civil Procedure and Courts

Oral history interview with Jacob B. Tanzer conducted by Peter C. Richter from October 5, 2005, to April 4, 2006, as part of the United States District Court Oral History Project. Tanzer was a Multnomah County deputy district attorney, a judge on the Oregon Court of Appeals, and a justice on the Oregon Supreme Court.

Oral history interview with Jacob B. Tanzer conducted by Frank M. Parisi in October 1988, as part of the Oregon Court of Appeals Oral History Project, which later became part of the U.S. District Court Oral History Project. Tanzer served as a judge on the Oregon Court of Appeals from 1973 to 1980, and as a justice on the Oregon Supreme Court.

Oral history interview with Sidney Teiser conducted by Charles Digregorio on February 3, 1977. Teiser discusses his career as a lawyer in Portland, Oregon.

Collection includes correspondence and research on the U.S. District Court, the renaming of the Pendleton Courthouse, Nels Peterson and Thomas J. White.

Papers of Stephen L. Wasby (1937-2021), a political science professor. The papers relate to Wasby's research on Judge Alfred T. Goodwin of Oregon, including correspondence with Goodwin; on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals; and on obscenity laws in Oregon in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Charles Wolverton was a lawyer in Albany, Oregon, a justice on the Oregon Supreme Court, and a judge on U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. Collection includes correspondence, 1894-1926, regarding state and national politics, Wolverton's judicial career, personal and business matters with John H. Mitchell, Reuben P. Boise, and Benjamin F. Mulkey; speeches regarding initiative and referendum; and ephemera.

Oral history interview with Wendell Wyatt conducted by Randall Weisberg from January 28 to March 24, 1992, as part of the United States District Court Oral History Project. Wyatt was a lawyer in Astoria and Portland, Oregon, and represented Oregon in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1964 to 1975.