Correspondence from Guinier to Amsterdam

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- Lani Guinier
Organization
- NAACP Legal and Educational Defense Fund, Inc.
Matter
- Bozeman v. Lambert
Case
- Bozeman v. Lambert
U.S. state
- Alabama
Collection
- Case Files
Taxonomy
Identifier
- 7a442427-ed92-ee11-be37-6045bdeb8873

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Case Files, Bozeman v. Lambert and Wilder v. Lambert Court Documents. Correspondence from Guinier to Amsterdam, 1984. 7a442427-ed92-ee11-be37-6045bdeb8873. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/a9bffdfa-a47f-4d55-aaa8-8309ed5a47d7/correspondence-from-guinier-to-amsterdam. Accessed April 13, 2025.

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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND' INC.

99 Hudson Street, New York, N.Y. 10013o(212) 219-1900

July 11, 1984

Professor Anthony G. Amsterdan
New York UniversitY
School of Law
40 Washington Square South
Room 327
New York, N.Y. 10012

RE: Bozeman & Wilder

Dear Tony:

I enclose a copy of the district court opinion and order
appointing Vanietta and me counsel, authorLzLng PaymenE
o'f'or= feEs and some of our exPenses. The Court disallows
all of my travel exPenses on the Bfound thag petitioners
could have hired Lotal counsel. this is consistenE wiEh
a restrict.ive local rule in the Middle District of Alabama
(Rule 2) prohibitng outside counsel froqr litigating civil
rights cases only.- Do you think there is a basis for
chillenging either the tourt's order or the local rule
(copy attached) ?

I also enclose a copy of Lhe respondents' reply brief to
our resporrse to theil 50(b) motion, their request filed
in the Lourt of Appeals not to take any actioq pendilg-a
ruling on their ObiU) motion, and the_Court of Appeals'
order"denying our motion Eo dismiss the appeaL as untimely.

Please call me at your earl-iest convenience to discuss the
pending motions.

SLnSt€eLy,
./

-.1 a, .,.. ,/ini Giliriier

LG/ r
Enclosures

cc : Siegfrie<i lboPf , Esq.

Contributions are d.ed,wtibLe lor U.S. income tar purposes

The NAACp LEGAL oEFENSE & EoucATlol{AL FUND is not part ol the Narional Association,or the Advancement ol colored People although it

,iriiliJroeo oiitino straros itjijmmiiirCirt to iquirligtii. ioF nii had for over 25 years a separate Board, program, starf , otlice and budset.

Les.rEerenseH.

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