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Civil Case files 1938-1998 (U.S. District Court for the Richmond Division of the Eastern District of Virginia)

Title:: Civil Case files 1938-1998 (U.S. District Court for the Richmond Division of the Eastern District of Virginia)
Creator:: United States. District Court (Virginia : Eastern District : Richmond Division)
Date of Original:: 1938/1998
Subject:: Petitions
Depositions
Decrees
Transcripts
Affidavits
Decisions
Writs
Pleas (Criminal procedure)
Mandates
Orders (Court)
Civil procedure
Court records
School integration
People:: Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961--Trials, litigation, etc.
Location:: United States, Virginia, 37.54812, -77.44675
United States, Virginia, City of Richmond, 37.55376, -77.46026
United States, Virginia, Prince Edward County, 37.2243, -78.44108
Medium:: civil court records
Type:: Text
Description:: This series contains papers filed in civil proceedings which may include petitions, bills of complaint, transcripts of testimony and of record, writs, answers, depositions, exhibits, motions, court orders, decrees, findings of fact and conclusions of law, cross-petitions, affidavits, decisions, writs of error, notices, summonses, mandates, pleas, praecipes, subpoenas, and other related papers. If the case was appealed to a higher court, then information and papers relating to that appeal might be found in the case file.
One of the significant cases heard at this court was that of Dorothy E. Davis, et al. v the County School Board of Prince Edward County, a school desegregation case which eventually formed part of the landmark Brown v the Board of Education rulings of the Supreme Court in 1954-1955.
Not all civil action case files are retained permanently. The records from 1970 onward consist of all cases that went to trial, and selected non-trial cases.
Metadata URL:: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/279096
Language:: eng
Original Collection:: Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685 - 2009, Civil Case Files, 1938 - 12/31/1998
Contributing Institution:: United States. National Archives and Records Administration. National Archives at Philadelphia
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