A BILL TO AMEND CHAPTER 7, TITLE 5, UNITED STATES CODE, WITH
RESPECT TO PROCEDURE FOR JUDICIAL REVIEW OF CERTAIN AD-
MINISTRATIVE AGENCY ACTION, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

CONTENTS

STATEMENT OF WITNESSES

Jerre S. Williams, chairman of the Administrative Conference of the

United States---

Ashley Sellers, attorney, Washington, D.C., chairman, Judicial Review

Committee, Administrative Conference of the United States------

Roger C. Cramton, professor, University of Michigan Law School, Con-

sultant to the Administrative Conference of the United States---.

Dan M. Byrd, Jr., attorney, Fort Mill, S.C., chairman of the Administrative

Law Section of the American Bar Association___.

Kenneth Culp Davis, professor, University of Chicago School of Law, chair-

man of the Committee on Judicial Review, American Bar Association,

Administrative Law Section_-_-

Hon. William D. Ruckelshaus, Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department

of Justice...

APPENDICES

I. Administrative Conference Recommendations and Consultant's

Memoranda :

(a) Elimination of Jurisdictional Amount Requirement__.

(b) Statutory Reform of Sovereign Immunity.

(c) Parties Defendant--

II. "Sovereign Immunity Must Go," by Prof. Kenneth Culp Davis

III. American Law Institute "Study of the Division of Jurisdiction

between State and Federal Courts"

IV. Selected Statutory Provisions Related to Judicial Review and

Federal Court Jurisdiction

V. Administrative Conference Transcript (edited and excerpted) From

Plenary Session, Oct. 21, 1969: Sovereign Immunity Recommenda-

tion Discussed

VI. Correspondence Relating to Administrative Conference Recommenda-

tions and S. 3568:

(a) Letter from Deputy Attorney General Richard G. Kleindinst

to Prof. Roger C. Cramton, Mar. 31, 1970

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6

13

45

55

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76

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(b) Letter from Chairman Jerre S. Williams to Senator James

O. Eastland, Mar. 31, 1970

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(c) Letter from Prof. Kenneth C. Davis to Senator Edward M.

Kennedy, Apr. 21, 1970

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(d) Letter from Prof. Roger C. Cramton to Thomas M. Susman,

May 20, 1970, with enclosures

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(e) Letter from Prof. Kenneth C. Davis to Senator Edward M.

Kennedy, June 4, 1970

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(f) Letter from Prof. Roger C. Cramton to Senator Edward M.

Kennedy, June 5, 1970

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(g) Letter from Prof. Charles A. Wright to Senator Edward M.

M. Kennedy, June 12, 1970

252

(h) Letter from Secretary George P. Shultz to Senator Edward

M. Kennedy, June 17, 1970

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(i) Letter from Assistant Attorney General Ruckelshaus to

Senator Edward M. Kennedy, July 8, 1970-

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