Justice Harry Blackmun papers online

Thanks to Pat Roncevich, our Acquisitions Librarian extraordinaire, for this one: Lee Epstein, a law professor at Northwestern, has created and is maintaining a digital archive of Justice Harry Blackmun's papers. The archive contains pdf files of the docket sheets and preliminary (pool) memoranda from Blackmun’s papers in the Library of Congress and is browsable or searchable by case docket number. Prof. Epstein also has on her website the U.S. Supreme Court Justices Database, which "contain(s) a wealth of information on individuals nominated (whether confirmed or not) to the U.S. Supreme Court (John Jay-Samuel A. Alito, Jr). Specifically, the database houses 263 variables, falling roughly into five categories: identifiers, background characteristics and personal attributes, nomination and confirmation, service on the Court, and departures from the bench."