Official Records

The records of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second 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 ).

Other Records

Harvard Law School holds the Michael Smith and Herbert Packer Research Materials on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1910-1972, compiled for a book Smith and Packer planned on writing about the court. The collection is focused on Judges Learned Hand, Augustus Hand, Jerome Frank, Charles Clark, Thomas Swan, and Julian Mack. The materials include court opinions, interviews, research materials, collected writings and speeches, and some of Augustus Hand's correspondence.

Bibliography

Federal Bar Council. Courthouses of the Second Circuit: Their Architecture, History, and Stories. New York: Acanthus Press, 2015.

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.

Miner, Judge Roger J. "United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit" in United States Courts in the Second Circuit, A Collection of History Lectures Delivered by Judges of the Second Circuit. Federal Bar Council Foundation, 1992.

Morris, Jeffrey B. Federal Justice in the Second Circuit: A History of the United States Courts in New York, Connecticut, and Vermont, 1787-1987. New York: Second Circuit Historical Committee, 1987.

United States Courts in the Second Circuit: A Collection of History Lectures Delivered by Judges of the Second Circuit. New York: Federal Bar Foundation, 1992.