Further Reading
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The Federal Judicial Center (FJC) provides several resources on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals’ history, including:
Judge Biographical Information and a Chronological Listing of Service
A Legislative History of the Court
Select Books
Stephen B. Presser, Studies of the History of the United States Courts of the Third Circuit, 1790-1980: A Bicentennial Project. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1982.
Ruggero J. Aldisert, Road to the Robes: A Federal Judge Recollects Young Years & Early Times. Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, 2005.
Robert L. Freedman, Abraham L. Freedman: The Man and His Thoughts. Philadelphia: Freedman Publishing, 2016.
Mollie Marti, Walking with Justice: Uncommon Lessons from One of Life's Greatest Mentors. Austin, Tex.: Greenleaf Book Group Press, 2012.
Donald W. Rogers, Workers Against the City: The Fight for Free Speech in Hague v. CIO. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2020.
Barry Siegel, Claim of Privilege: A Mysterious Plane Crash, a Landmark Supreme Court Case, and the Rise of State Secrets. New York: Harper Perennial, 2008.
Stephen D. Solomon, Ellery's Protest: How One Young Man Defied Tradition and Sparked the Battle Over School Prayer. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009.
Seymour I. Toll, A Judge Uncommon: A Life of John Biggs, Jr. Philadelphia: Legal Communications, 1993.
Gilbert Ware, William Hastie: Grace Under Pressure. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.
Select Articles
Ruggero J. Alidsert, Carol Los Mansmann: Daughter of Pittsburgh, 46 Duq. L. Rev. 15 (2007). View Online
Ruggero J. Aldisert, Joseph F. Weis Jr., Leonard I. Garth, & Dolores K. Sloviter, Max Rosenn: An Ideal Appellate Judge, 154 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1025 (2006). View Online
Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Judge, Teacher, Friend [Tribute to Judge Edward R. Becker], 155 U. Pa. L. Rev. 5 (2006). View Online
Thomas L. Ambro and Justin M. Forcier, Judge Victor B. Woolley, Richard S. Rodney Inn of Court (2015). View Online
Sabato Morais Bendiner, Ida O. Creskoff, 10 The Shingle – Philadelphia Bar Association 171 (1947). View Online
William J. Brennan, Jr., Dedication to Albert Branson Maris, 20 Vill. L. Rev. 403 (1974). View Online
William J. Brennan, Jr., Tribute to Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., 9 Law & Ineq. 383 (1991). View Online
William M. Janseen, Judicial Profile - The Hon. Joseph F. Weis, Jr., The Federal Lawyer (2012). View Online
Albert B. Maris, New Federal Judicial Code: Enactment by 80th Congress a Notable Gain, 34 A.B.A. J. 863 (1948). Judge Albert B. Maris served as the Chairman of the Judicial Conference Committee on Revision of the Judicial Code that collaborated with Congress to revise the Judicial Code of 1948. View Online (Registration required)
Robert Merges, Apple v. Franklin: An Essay on Technology and Judicial Competence, 2 Yale Law & Policy Review 62 (1983). View Online
Louis H. Pollak, William Henry Hastie, 125 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1 (1976). View Online
Collins J. Seitz, John Biggs, Jr., 22 Vill. L. Rev. 584 (1976). View Online
Dolores K. Sloviter, Collins J. Seitz, An Unparalleled Colleague, 16 Del. Law. 10 (Fall 1998). View Online
Harrison Tweed, Herbert F. Goodrich, 111 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1 (1962). View Online