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Retired Justice David Souter letter to Randy J. Holland re Magna Carta Book and A Buried Thank You Note
Supreme Court of the United States
Washington, D. C. 20543CHAMBERS OF
JUSTICE SOUTER
(RETIRED)From Concord, NH
December 22, 2015You are bent on making me an educated man. And this brings my thanks for the volume of Magna Carta essays with your generous inscription. You sure assembled an impressive stable of writers, starting with yourself, and I hope to profit from them all as time allows.
I hope you have a most wonderful new year ahead of you.
Yours sincerely,
Davidover, please
July 28, 2016
I’m spending the week excavating the top of my desk, after getting swamped with too much of everything. And up came this thank-you I misplaced and covered up seven months ago. Please forgive my chaos out of charity for an old man.
David
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Retired Justice David Souter letter to Randy Holland re naming of the Holland Inn of Court: November 18, 2013
Supreme Court of the United States
Washington, D. C. 20543CHAMBERS OF
JUSTICE SOUTER
(RETIRED)Dear Randy,
I’ve just learned of the Randy J. Holland Inn of Court. To your admirers like me the name of the new Inn has a fine ring to it. I know you’re thus well-honored, and I hope you’re otherwise well in every way.
Yours sincerely,
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Justice David Souter letter to Randy Holland re Lewes, Delaware Book: May 7, 2013
Supreme Court of the United States
Washington, D. C. 20543CHAMBERS OF
JUSTICE SOUTER
(RETIRED)May 7, 2013
Dear Randy:
You were most kind to send me a copy of the new book. I haven’t had a chance to do more than dip in here and there, but your prose is lovely and the production of the book itself is a very nice complement to it. I shall be glad to learn why it is that I used to get nicked for a toll passing through Delaware, back in my days of migrating up and down the coast.
You must be thrilled to have the book out, and it’s great to have the occasion to send congratulations.
Yours sincerely,
DavidThe Honorable Randy J. Holland
Supreme Court of Delaware
Post Office Box 369
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Justice David Souter letter to Randy Holland re Time Management October 15, 2008
Supreme Court of the United States
Washington, D. C. 20543CHAMBERS OF JUSTICE DAVID H. SOUTER
October 15, 2008
Dear Randy:
Thanks for your note of the 9th. I hate to turn you down about the appearance after the admissions ceremony next month, but I’m going to ask you to excuse me. I already have one student group coming that day, and I’ve learned from experience that I’ve got to be realistic about rationing time. I hope you’ll understand.
Yours sincerely,
DavidThe Honorable Randy J. Holland
Supreme Court of Delaware
Post Office Box 369
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Endorsement of Virtue and Dignity: Justice David H. Souter’s Letter re Randy Holland Nomination
Supreme Court of the United States
Washington, D.C. 20543CHAMBERS OF JUSTICE DAVID H. SOUTER
May 30, 2007
Dear Mr. Brady:
Thank you for your letter about the nomination of Justice Holland for the Christensen Award. To the extent that any word from me might help in forwarding the nomination, I’m most happy to supply it.
The American Inns of Court has become synonymous with insistence on intellectual responsibility and personal decency within the practice of the profession. While the focus is on lawyers, Randy Holland stands for these virtues among the judges. His intellectual work is on the record for all to consult, and as the Circuit Justice assigned to the Third Circuit, I can attest to the valuable collegiality he has had a hand in fostering between the judges of Delaware and their Federal counterparts. He should be in the Inns’ pantheon.
Yours sincerely,
David SouterKevin F. Brady, Esquire
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Letter from Justice David H. Souter to Randy Holland: Legal Camaraderie Across Inns of Court
Supreme Court of the United States Washington, D. C. 20543
CHAMBERS OF JUSTICE DAVID H. SOUTER
April 25, 2007
Dear Randy:
As an Honorary Bencher of Gray’s Inn, I view Middle Temple lawyers with some caution, but your letter makes out a case for tolerance. Thanks very much for the copy of your book, (with your kind inscription) which it’s going to be fun to get into. For the moment, it will have to be fun deferred, but not for any longer than necessary.
Yours sincerely,
DavidThe Honorable Randy J. Holland
Supreme Court of Delaware
Post Office Box 369
Georgetown, Delaware 19947Categories: David SouterTags: 2007, april, bencher, davidsouter, delaware, graysinn, honorary, judge, judiciary, justicesouter, law, lawyer, legal, Letters, middletemple, randyholland, scotus, supremecourt, tolerance -
Letter from Justice David H. Souter to Randy Holland: The Jogging Jurist
Supreme Court of the United States
Washington, D. C. 20543CHAMBERS OF JUSTICE DAVID H. SOUTER
June 29, 2004
Dear Randy:
You know what May and June are like at this particular address, and I will depend on you to understand why I’ve been so long in saying thanks for your awfully nice card of early May. I was very lucky in the aftermath of my mishap, am fine today, and continue my (increasingly stately) jogging.
Yours sincerely,
DavidThe Honorable Randy J. Holland
Supreme Court of Delaware
Post Office Box 369
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Justice David Souter letter to Randy Holland: Polite Declination for a Brown Commemoration Speech – January 8, 2004
CHAMBERS OF
JUSTICE DAVID H. SOUTER
Supreme Court of the United States Washington, D. C. 20543
January 8, 2004Dear Randy:
I have been remiss in not responding to your November letter about Judge Ambro’s invitation. Owing to our precautionary delays in mail delivery, your note didn’t come until we were geared up for the December arguments. I’m certain Judge Ambro has long since told you that I’ve asked to be excused from speaking at the Brown com- memoration. Since, as you’ve said, I’ve already addressed Judge Seitz’s great contribution on a couple of past occa- sions, I did not think there was any chance his family would misunderstand my staying away this time. The less I speak, the better; and with what we’ve got ahead of us this spring, I’m not looking for any extra-curricular opportunities in May.
But it was nice to hear from you. I hope you’ll find it a great new year.
Yours sincerely,
DavidThe Honorable Randy J. Holland Supreme Court of Delaware
Post Office Box 369
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Justice David Souter letter to Randy Holland re Delaware Constitution book: January 22, 2003
Supreme Court of the United States Washington, D. C. 20543
CHAMBERS OF JUSTICE DAVID H. SOUTER
January 22, 2003
Dear Randy:
Many thanks for your kindness in sending me your book on the Delaware constitution and for the inscription to me. Although I’m in no position to appreciate the details of your scholarship, I think I am able to understand the significance of what you’ve done in producing the book, and I can only applaud, loudly.
I became an appellate judge about twenty years ago, when there was a great deal of drum-beating in favor of Justice Brennan’s view that the state judges should use the state con- stitutions to counteract the era of reticence or retreat that he saw then opening up through this Court’s reading of the national Constitution. I recall that Stuart Pollock of the Supreme Court of New Jersey was travelling around the country as rather an evangelist for state supreme court activism under the state charters. After seeing how this activism tended to work out in practice, however, I was left a cynic, as were my colleagues on the other northern New England supreme courts. We reflected once at a get-together that the state constitutionalism advocated before as seemed to boil down to this: cite a state provision more or less like the federal provision that would otherwise have been invoked, ignore the state text and history, then throw out a lot of marginally relevant federal cites. Appeals of intersection collision cases were better argued than the state constitutional revival.
That said, I will admit that a lawyer who was out to do a good job faced some digging in those days. None of the northern New England states, at least, had much by way of textual material or published studies, and the earlier cases were frequently on state provisions no longer to the fore. New Hampshire was crying out for its Holland in those days (and I gather from looking at the list of titles published in your series, it is still crying). But Delaware has got its Holland, and the differences between the Delaware Constitution and the federal, to which Norm referred in his preface, ought to get a fair shake from advocates with the benefit of your book.
The profession has a lot to thank you for.
Yours sincerely,
DavidThe Honorable Randy J. Holland
Supreme Court of Delaware
Post Office Box 369
Georgetown, Delaware 19947Categories: David SouterTags: 2003, constitution, davidsouter, delaware, january, judge, judiciary, justicesouter, law, lawyer, legal, Letters, newengland, newhampshire, newjersey, randyholland, scotus, supremecourt -
Justice David Souter letter to Randy Holland re social minimalism: September 24, 2002
Supreme Court of the United States
Washington, D. C. 20543CHAMBERS OF JUSTICE DAVID H. SOUTER
September 24, 2002
Dear Randy:
Thanks for your note of August 23rd with its invitation to the dinner on October 19th. You were kind to invite me, but being the social minimalist that I am I will ask to be excused.
Yours sincerely,
DavidThe Honorable Randy J. Holland
Supreme Court of Delaware
Post Office Box 369
Georgetown, Delaware 19947Categories: David SouterTags: 2002, davidsouter, delaware, dinner, introvert, introverts, judge, judiciary, justicesouter, law, legal, Letters, randyholland, scotus, september, supremecourt