American Bar Association Committee Meeting, November 14, 1979.
Statistics.
Draft, 1979.
Appellate Structure Commission Draft.
Chief Justice England’s in-house working drafts.
Senate drafts.
House committee draft to correspond to Senate version.
Final draft.
Tapes: Senate Judiciary – Civil, April 12, 19, and May 3, 1979.
Tapes: Senate Judiciary – Civil, November 26, 1979.
Tapes: House Judiciary, November 26, 1979.
Tapes: House Judiciary, November 27, 1979.
Court-promulgated publicity.
Publicity – Speeches.
Publicity – Letters to editors / Editorials
Publicity – Periodical Articles
Campaign File.
Correspondence.
Chief Justice England’s personal correspondence file.
Newspaper Articles / Editorials.
Lampkin-Assam: Jurisdictional Statement.
Memo from Justice O’Connell – Selection, Tenure and Removal of Judges, October 1, 1958.
Proposed Revision of Article V by the Judicial Council, December 1958.
Proposed Revision of Article V by the Judicial Council, February 15, 1959.
“The Need for Reorganization of the Judicial System in Florida.” by the Judicial Council, April 1959.
House Joint Resolution # 1601, June 19, 1959.
Memo from Ernest Means – Position Paper: Administrative Authority of the Supreme Court, October 15, 1959.
“You, Your Constitution and Your Courts.” Speech by Justice O’Connell, 1960.
Proposed Revision of Article V by the Judicial Council, March 9, 1960.
Proposed Revision of Article V by the Circuit Judges’ Conference, May 10, 1960.
“The Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court Emphasizing Certiorari” by Justice Campbell Thornal, October 31, 1960.
Proposed Revision of Article v by the Judicial Council, November 1, 1960.
Retired Judges Assigned to Active Judicial Service, November 29, 1960.
Court Congestion and Delay, January 1961.
Report of the Circuit Judges’ Conference, January 19, 1961.
“Summary of Changes . . . To Existing Article V” by the Judicial Council, January 31, 1961.
Proposed Revision of Article V by the Judicial Council, March 24, 1961.
House Joint Resolution # 1855, April 1961.
Seventh Annual Report of the Judicial Council, June 30, 1961.
Summary of Meeting of the Joint Committee on Judicial Selection, October 6, 1962.
Remarks of Stephen C. O’Connell to Council of 100, December 13, 1963.
Minutes of the Meeting of the Florida Bar Committee on Judicial Selection, March 6, 1964.
Minutes of the Judicial Council Meeting, September 25 – 26, 1964.
Ballots of the Judicial Council on Selection and Tenure of Judges, February 1, 1965.
Minutes of the Judicial Council Meeting, February 12, 1965.
Minutes of the Judicial Council Meeting, October 8, 1965.
Minutes of the Judicial Council Meeting, September 30, 1966.
“The Selection and Tenure of Florida Supreme Court Judges” by Malcolm Parsons, 9 Miami Law Quarterly 271 (1955).
“New Proposals for the Selection and Tenure of Florida Judges” by O’Connell and Means, December 1966.
Newspaper Clippings.
Letters.
Speeches – Stephen O’Connell.
“impeachment and Removal of Constitutional Officials” by Arthur Lundeen, no date.
Creation of the Fourth District Court of Appeal. (see also Judicial Council Minutes: October 8, 1965 and September 30, 1966.
The researcher should also see the following files from the Revision of Article V (1957):
4. Judicial Council Draft of Article V (April 16, 1955).
13. Lake Wales Draft of Article V (December 8, 1956).
14. Missouri Plan.
The minutes of the Judicial Council from 1957 through 1966 contain considerable background information on the Revision of Article V (1966).
The researcher should also check copies of the Constitution, available in the Supreme Court Library, both before and after the revision. [NOTE: Florida constitution texts are available on-line at http://www.law.fsu.edu/crc/conhist/contents.html ER-April 2007]
REVISION OF ARTICLE V, 1957 Creation of the District Courts of Appeal
Text of Act Creating the Judicial Council, 1953.
First Annual Report of the Judicial Council, June 30, 1954.
Reprint from Florida Bar Journal, “A Proposed Revision of Article V . . .” by the Judicial Council, January 1955.
Judicial Council’s Draft of Article V, April 16, 1955.
Senate Joint Resolution 1065 – Revision of Article V, May 20, 1955.
Endorsement of Amendment # 1 by the Board of Governors of the Florida Bar, no date.
“Improving Florida’s Court System . . .” by the Judicial Council, November 1, 1955.
Second Annual Report of the Judicial Council, 1955.
Tentative Draft of Article V by the Judicial Council, March 24, 1956.
“Improving Florida’s Court System . . .” by the Judicial Council, July 1, 1956.
“Effects on Courts, Lawyers and Taxpayers . . .” by Paul D. Barns, 1956.
What Amendment # 1 Means to You” speech draft by Allen Morris, July 26, 1956.
Lake Wales Draft of Article V, December 8, 1956.
RESEARCH MATERIALS
Missouri Plan.
Illinois Plan.
Tennessee Plan.
Appellate Court Structure by C. E. Chillingsworth.
Constitution
Official copy of Amendment # 1 as voted November 6, 1956.
Constitution of 1885 (1954).
Constitution of 1885 (1958).
PUBLICITY
Florida Bar Pamphlet, “Give Justice a Green Light . . .”
ADDITIONAL SOURCES
The files for the revision of Article V (1957) providing for the creation of the District Courts of Appeal are arranged in chronological order.
The Judicial Council actively provided the impetus for the revision of Article V (1957), thus the researcher should also read the minutes of the Judicial Council from October 31, 1953 through 1957.
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