Oral History of Judge Stephen F. Williams

Index

 

Alchian, Armen, 42

Allen, William (Bill), 57

American Association of Law Schools (AALS), 37

Amsterdam, Tony, 55

Anderson, Lanier, 24

Another View of the Cathedral, by Melamed and Calabresi, 21

antitrust, 27, 38

Armstrong, William, 48-49

Arnold,. Richard, 15

Assignment in Utopia, by Eugene Lyons, 8

Associated Gas Distributors v. FERC (case), 102

 

Bazelon, David, 60, 64

Benedictine monks, 67

Berlin crisis, 29-30

Birrell case, 32-33, 37

Birrell, Lowell, 32

Booker (case), 64

bottleneck monopoly theory, 95

Boudin, Michael, 83

Braucher, Robert, 21

Breyer, Stephen, 80, 96, 100-01

Buckley, James (Jim), 11, 13, 46, 56, 59

Buckley, William (Bill), 11, 13, 46-47, 59

Burger, Warren, 60, 64

 

cable television“must carry” cases, 93

Cappuccio, Paul, 56

Cardozo, Benjamin, 75

Casner, A. James, 21

Chayes, Abe, 21

Chenery (case), 79, 80

Chevron (case), 74, 77

Chicago School, 87, 97

Clayton Act, 27

CLEC (Competitive Local Exchange Carrier), 100

Coffin, William Sloane, 35

Communications Act, 98, 102

competition, 84, 87- 90, 100-01

Core (case), 76

Court of Veterans Appeals, 82

 

Dawes Plan, 14

Dentsply (case), 89

deVegh, Pierre, 30

Dollar Line, 6

Dorius, Joel, 14

Dyk, Tim, 24-25

 

Easterbrook, Frank, 62

Eastham, Nancy, 22

Ebel, David, 53

Economic Analysis of Law by Richard Posner, 38

Edict of Nantes, 1

Edwards, Harry, 64, 68, 72-73, 85

Elliott, Donald, 77

Epstein, Richard, 38, 66

Eskridge, Bill, 77

 

Fain, William Hugh (maternal grandfather), 2

Farr, Joan Williams (sister), 4

FCC (Federal Communications Commission), 76, 85, 93-101

FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission), 72, 101-05

First Amendment, 41, 94-98

Friendly, Henry, 83

Frothingham v. Mellon (case), 67

 

Garland, Merrick, 76

Gates, Bill, 90-91

Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 60, 104

God and Man at Yale by William Buckley, 15

Greenawalt, Kent, 55

Griswold, Erwin, 22

 

Harrison, John, 48

Hart, Gary, 48

Hatch, Orrin, 51

Hoover Moratorium, 14

Horowitz, Morty, 39, 41

Huguenots, 1

Hungarian Revolt of 1956, 15

ILEC (Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier), 100

Interstate Commerce Act, 101

Iowa Utilities Board (case), 100-01

 

Jackson, Robert, 79

Jackson, Thomas Penfield, 85-86, 91-94

Journal of Legal Studies, 39

 

Kasenkina, Oksana, 6

Kennedy, Anthony, 24, 98

Kristol, Irving, 22

Land v. Dollar (case), 6

Lawson, David, 104

LePages’ (case), 89

Lescaze, William, 3

Leventhal, Harold, 56-57

Liman, Arthur, 27, 32-33

Louisiana casket (case), 65

Love v. Mississippi (case), 55

Lyons, Eugene, 8

Lyons, Martin, 26

Maryland People’s Counsel v. FERC (case), 103

Massachusetts v. Mellon (case), 67

Matera, Mary, 56, 70

Maxwell, Dick, 41, 103

Meyers, Charlie, 38

Microsoft, 61, 68, 88

Microsoft Windows, 89

monopolization argument, 86

PR campaign, 93

Microsoft (case), 68, 84-89

disqualification, 91

en banc decision, 85

Mikva, Abner, 64

Moody, Howard, 35-36

Mooz, Bill, 42, 56

Morrow, Steve, 53, 54

must-carry provision, 94

 

Natural Gas Act, 101

Nields, John, 33

North, Oliver, 33

Nussbaum, Bernie, 25

 

O’Connor, Sandra Day, 86

 

Panama Refining (case), 75

Piel, Tony, 11

Pierce, Dick, 103

Posner, 38, 46, 62, 63

Posner, Richard (Dick), 38, 46, 60, 62-63

Progressive Era, 65

Pulling, Edward, 10

 

Ramsey pricing, 104

Randolph, A. Raymond, 78

Reese, Grover, 50

Rehnquist, William, 63

Rifkind, Bob, 26

Robinson. Spottswood (Spotts), 59

Rockefeller, Jay, 53

Roe v. Wade (case), 8

Rogers, Thomas. See Williams, Stephen, -Mayflower ancestors

Rosenkranz, Josh, 56

Sawyer, Charles, 6

Scalia, Antonin (Nino), 56, 59, 63, 66, 101, 104

Schiffrin, André, 16-17

Schuck, Peter, 77

Sentelle, David, 71

Sentencing Guidelines, 64

Sherman Act, 86-87, 89

Short, Duke, 51

Silberman, Laurence (Larry), 24, 57, 60, 72

Simon, Paul, 51

Simpson, Alan, 51

Speedy Trial Act, 60

Sporkin, Stanley, 91, 93-94

Stalon, Charles, 104

Starr, Ken, 57

State Farm (case), 73-74

Steel Seizure (case), 6

Stevens, John, 62

Supreme Court, 24, 56, 59, 63, 65, 69, 77, 79, 85, 88, 93-96, 99

 

Tashima, Wally, 23-24

Tatel, David, 68, 87

Telecommunications Act of 1996, 99, 101

Tennis Channel (case), 98

The Legal Imagination by James White, 37

The Natural Gas Revolution of 1985, by Stephen F. Williams, 41, 102-03

The Transformation of American Law by Morty Horowitz, 39

Thomas, Clarence, 66

Thurmond, Strom, 51-52

Tiller, Rob, 56

To the Chevron Station by Peter Schuck and Donald Elliott, 77

Tom Merrill, Tom, 77

Trevor, Frank, 10-11

Trinko (case), 88

Turner (cases), 94-95

Two Cheers for Capitalism by Irving Kristol, 22

tying claim, 86, 90

 

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 86, 91-92

United States Department of Justice, 41, 47-48, 51

United States District Court for the District of Columbia, 86, 90

USTA (cases), 99

 

Vietnam War, 49

 

Wald, Patricia, 56, 59, 64, 71

Warren, Richard. See also Williams, Stephen – Mayflower ancestors

Westword (newspaper), 53

 

Williams, C. Dickerman (father)

clerked for William Howard Taft, 5

Truman Administration, 5-7

Yale, 5

Williams, Faith Morrow (wife), 25, 29, 31, 34- 37, 42, 44, 46, 49-50, 52-53

Williams, Honor (sister), 4

Williams, Joan (sister), 4

Williams, L. Pearce, 14

Williams, Stephen F. – Personal

Army Reserves, 12, 29

Army Security Agency, 29

Buckley School, 9

Collegiate School, 9

Colorado Law Review, 41

Ford Foundation scholarship to study Chinese, 19

Law Review, 20-21, 24-25, 38-39

Mayflower ancestors, 1

 

Millbrook School, 9

minorities on campus, 17

New York Bar, 25

UCLA Law Review, 40

Yale, 12, 14

Political Union, 15

Williams, Stephen F. – Professional

agencies, 78

bench memos, 61

Debevoise, Plimpton, Lyons & Gates, 25- 28, 31, 34, 38

principles of good craftsmanship, 83

drafts, 83

opinion writing

focus, 83

process, 62

U.S. Attorney’s Office, 26-27, 31-32, 46

Williams, Virginia Fain (mother), 2-3, 9

political leanings, 8

Wittes, Ben, 57

 

Young Plan, 14