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ORAL HISTORY OF JUDGE MICHAEL W. FARRELL
INDEX
A River Runs Through It (Maclean), 42
ABA (American Bar Association), 122, 189
Abramson, Frederick (Fred), 94
Abscam, 79
Advance Publications, 24
American Hustle (movie), 79
American University Law School, 50-53, 71
attorney discipline, 82, 171-72
Bass, Ellen (wife)
Department of Education, 183
WMATA, 183
Beckwith, Corinne, 82
Black, Hugo, 54
Brady v. Maryland, 73
Bryson, William, 65
Columbia University, 44
Covington & Burling, 91
Criminal Justice Act, 205
Daubert rule, 162
Davis, Oscar, 65, 76
death penalty, 113-14
diGenova, Joseph, 91
Dinkins, David, 18
DLA Piper, 90
Douglas, William O., 54
Easterbrook, Frank, 60, 71
Easterly, Catharine, 82
electronic legal research, 99, 102, 105
en banc cases, 77-78, 113, 161-62, 173-74, 188, 193, 201
Essex, New Jersey, 3
Farrell, Elizabeth (mother), 1, 3, 10-11, 21-22, 30, 42
Farrell, John (father), 3, 5, 7-9, 17, 20-22, 24-25, 29, 67
interest in politics, 9
Newark Evening News, 3
newspaper business, 13, 15, 21-23
retirement, 13, 21, 23
Farrell, John (Jack) (brother)
Holy Cross College, 17
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Farrell, Michael W. – Personal
American University Law School, 50-53, 71
Army Reserve, 40-41
basketball, 5-7, 25-26
Columbia University, 44
German literature, 44, 46, 48, 66, 68-69
Germany, 42-43, 67, 182
Berlitz School of Languages, 43
University of Mainz, 43
hobbies
foreign languages, 69
hiking, 186-87
literature, 44, 66
philosophy, 44, 66
travel, 178, 182
New York University, 44
Saint Peter’s Preparatory School (teaching), 44
Seton Hall Preparatory School (high school), 5-9
sports, 5
paternal grandfather, 9, 10, 12
University of Chicago, 40-42
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 40
University of Notre Dame, 2, 7-8, 25-29, 36, 39-41, 48
basketball, 30-32
magna cum laude, 27, 39
wander years (Wanderjahre), 28, 47-48, 54, 66-68, 144
William & Mary College, 7-8, 26
youth, 1-5
Catholic family tradition, 17
Farrell, Michael W. – Professional
attorney discipline, 82, 171-72
bar exam, 108-09
caseload, 162, 181-82, 189
CLE courses for the D.C. Bar, 184
computers, 99, 101-03, 105, 153, 171, 191-95
electronic legal research, 99, 102, 105
clerking, 92, 108
Daubert rule, 162
en banc cases, 77-78, 113, 161-62, 173-74, 188, 193, 201
Farrell Ninety-Day Rule, 169, 182
Indian law, 59, 72
Inns of Court, 123
intermediate court of appeals, 111
judging, 122, 130, 133-34, 198
change from advocate to independent decision maker, 132
judicial training, 122
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judicial collegiality, 126, 131, 196
judicial confirmation, 121
vetting process, 118
Judicial Nomination Commission, 117-18
law clerk (MWF), 134
Maryland Court of Special Appeals, 53-56, 64, 92, 108, 150
Montgomery Maryland Circuit Court, 53-54
law clerks, 132
analysis and opinion drafting, 135
bench memos, 147
expectations, 137
MOJ (memorandum of judgment), 161
New York University, 44
opinions
published and unpublished (memorandum of judgement, MOJs), 161, 181
writing process, 137, 148, 156
oral argument and summary cases, 158
organized crime, 73
preventive detention/pretrial detention, 77
recusals, 85, 124-25
res judicata, 130, 145
retirement, 21
rules committee, 110, 171
senior judge, 2, 178
law clerk pool, 179
Strike Force, 60, 71, 73
thoughts on teaching writing, 95
U. S. Attorney’s Office, 75, 95, 98, 109
job sharing, 87
merits brief for the Supreme Court, 59
U. S. Department of Justice, 56-60, 63, 92, 109-10
Woodrow Wilson, 9-10
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 40
William & Mary College, 177, 190
young lawyers, 190
Farrell, Richard (brother), 16-18
Federal Rules of Evidence, 110, 111
Fisher, John, 81
Francis, John J., 14
Frey, Andrew (Andy), 62-63, 75,
Friedman, Dan, 63, 65, 76
Frisch, Max, 44
Gary v. United States, 84
Geller, Kenneth (Ken), 63
Georgetown University, 16
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Germany, 42-43, 67, 182
Glenn, John, 120
habeas corpus, 113-14
Harris, Stanley S., 91
Henningsen v. Bloomfield Motors, 14
Hetherton, Judith, (Judy), 80
hornbooks, 163
Irish mafia, 14, 20
Jenrette, John, 79
judicial collegiality, 126, 131, 196
Judicial Nomination Commission, 117-18
Kelly, Richard, 79
Kennedy, Edward (Ted), 78
Kim, Todd Sunhwae, 121
King, Warren, 178
Klein, James, 97
Kutak Rock, 183-84
lace curtain Irish, 11
legal writing, 61, 99
Leventhal, Harold, 85
Levi, Edward (Ed), 62
Lexis, 102, 105
Maclean, Norman, 42
Macy, Elizabeth B., 177
Mandel, Marvin, 55
Marbury v. Madison, 154
McClough v. United States, 84
McLeese, Roy, 81
Mikva, Abner, 92-93
Monahan, Phil, 57-58, 71
Moore, John, 55, 57, 71
Nebeker, Frank, 77
New York Daily News, 25
New York Post, 25
Newark Evening News, 3, 13, 23-24
Newark Star-Ledger, 24
Newhouse, Samuel, 24
Newman, Theodore, 178
newspaper business, 13, 15, 21-23
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Oberly, Kathryn, 63
Office of the Solicitor General of the United States, 59, 64, 75
egos, 60
Davis, Oscar, 76
Frey, Andrew, 62
Friedman, Daniel, 63
Geller, Kenneth, 63
Kim, Todd Sunhwae, 121
preventive detention/pretrial detention, 77
Prosser and Keeton on Torts (Prosser and Keaton), 163
Public Defender Service, 97, 161, 190, 197, 204
Raker, Irma, 53
Reagan, Ronald, 119
Restatements of Law, 104, 153, 163
Rosenberg, Beatrice (Bea), 63
Ruff, Charles, 85, 91
Sasser, James, 120-21
Schwelb, Frank E., 103, 156, 173, 178
Scudders family, 23
Seton Hall Preparatory School, 5, 16
shanty Irish, 11
Silbert, Earl, 64, 89
Watergate, 90
Sirica, John, 90
South Bend Tribune, 31
Sputnik, 35, 40
Steadman, John, 139
Stein, Jacob A., 139
Supreme Court of New Jersey, 14
Supreme Court of the United States, 54, 58-59, 62, 68, 71-72, 78, 83-84, 97, 134, 147, 196
appellate practitioners, 204
Daubert rule, 162
habeas corpus and the District of Columbia, 114
law clerks, 156
unanimity of decisions, 173
Supreme Court of Virginia, 177
technology, 40, 100, 101, 105, 167
redlining, 167-68
use by judges, 104
Terry, John, 64, 76-77, 80, 85
The Bostonians (James), 8
Tourish, Thomas, 81
Trosman, Elizabeth, 81-82, 88
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U.S. Attorney’s Office, 64, 76, 80, 82-90, 95-101, 110, 124-28, 161, 166
Strike Force, 60-61, 71,74-75
U.S. Department of Justice, 56-58, 60, 62-63
Appellate Section of the Criminal Division, 57-58
Criminal Division Appellate Section, 59
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 84
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 73
University of Chicago, 40-42
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 40
University of Notre Dame, 2, 7, 25-27, 29, 36
Vietnam, 34, 36, 41, 45
von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, 48
Wagner, Annice M., 178
Walton, Reggie, 52
Warren Court, 53-54
Washington Post, 81, 128
Weinberg, Mel, 79
Westlaw, 2-3, 27, 29, 102, 105
Wilhelm Meister’s Journeyman Years (von Goethe), 48
Wilson, Woodrow, 9
Winfield v. United States, 174
Winter, Harrison, 73
Winter, Ralph, 56