Correspondence from Pamela Karlan to Kathleen Bell, Esq. Re Whitfield v. Clinton

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May 18, 1987

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  • Legal Department General, Lani Guinier Correspondence. Correspondence from Pamela Karlan to Kathleen Bell, Esq. Re Whitfield v. Clinton, 1987. 49f9dc4f-ea92-ee11-be37-6045bdeb8873. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/8cdae64c-79b2-45d1-b034-9e0d373e045a/correspondence-from-pamela-karlan-to-kathleen-bell-esq-re-whitfield-v-clinton. Accessed November 23, 2025.

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Kathleen BeIl, Esq.
Wilson, BeIl & Neal
13O Columbia Street
Helena, Arkansas 72342

Re: Whitfield v. Clinton

Dear Kathleen:

r am sending you draft interrogatories to be served onvarious of the defendants. Would you please look thern over assoon as possibre, make any additions oi corrections you thinknecessary, make sure that they conform to the rocar iutes, andsee tlat t!"y are properly served? we need to do this fairlyquickry, since we sharr want to.get the responses in time to'prepare a second set, if necessary, and to decide whom we need to
depose.

rn addition, we need to find out whatrs happening with our
Arkansas history expert. she has not yet gotten-back-to me.Could you please check with her?

r have sent the census data to Dick Engstrom, who wirl be
9"1!g our polarization anarysis. r,m encroling a copy of theletter I sent him for your files.

Please call me as soon as possible to discuss when would beconvenient for me to come down to Helena to meet with those ofour clients who you think would be good lay witnesses on thefollowing issues: the history of race reraLions in phirrips
qgunly, the difficulty.of black candidates gaining white support,difficulties with getting black voters to the polis and the iifce.

Finally, courd you please send me the names, addresses, andterephone numbers of counser for each of the defendants? rialike to make sure r have an accurate and complete set.

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S j,qcerely,

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Pdmela S. Karlan

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