Official Records
The records of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth 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 also 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
Barrow, Deborah J., and Thomas G. Walker. A Court Divided: The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Politics of Judicial Reform. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.
Couch, Harvey C. A History of the Fifth Circuit, 1891-1981. Washington D.C.: Bicentennial Commission of the United States Judicial Conference, 1984.
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.