Title: Eleanor Jackson Piel Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1954-1992

Creator:

• Piel, Eleanor Jackson, 1920-

Call Number: M2010-079

Quantity: 21.8 cubic feet (21 records center cartons and 2 archives boxes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of Eleanor Jackson Piel, a New York City attorney known for handling civil rights and civil liberties cases, together with some papers of fellow attorney Philip Wittenberg that were in her custody. Selected based on legal or historical importance, the files represent a variety of types of litigation ranging from Sandra Adickes v. Kress, a precedent-setting civil rights case appealed to the Supreme Court, to numerous cases of discrimination based on gender, a Florida death penalty appeal, and numerous criminal cases of special note.

Language: English, Spanish

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For more information about Eleanor Jackson Piel see: “One Tough Case” Transcript, Berkeley, California: Berkeley Law, University of California, Boalt Hall, March 1, 2009.

In addition to Piel's legal case files, several files concern Piel's personal interests and activities, notably her friend Harriet Pilpel, whom she interviewed about her legal work for reproductive rights, and her support of Morton Sobell. Also among Piel's clients were Fred Fernandez and Linus Pauling. The Wittenberg files concern primarily his legal representation of Corliss Lamont and his management of the Bill of Rights Fund for Lamont, as well as two cases related to publishing issues: the right of privacy in an unauthorized juvenile biography of Warren Spahn, and the failure of Robert Taber to acknowledge the contribution of collaborator Douglas Stone to his book on the Castro revolution. Some of Stone's Cuban research materials are included.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Eleanor Jackson Piel, New York, New York, circa 2010. Accession Number: M2010-079

M2010-079	Legal Cases
Box   1 Folder   1-2	Adams (New York v. Frankye Adams)
Box   1 Folder   3-14	Adickes (Sandra Adickes v. S.H. Kress & Company) Note: Racial discrimination.
	Adickes (Sandra Adickes and James Horelick v. Howard R. Leary)
Box   1 Folder   15	Correspondence, 1969-1970
Box   1 Folder   16	Criminal court papers
Box   1 Folder   17	New York Court of Appeals
Box   1 Folder   18-19	New York Supreme Court
Box   1 Folder   20-24	U.S. District Court
	U.S. Court of Appeals
Box   1 Folder   25	General
Box   2 Folder   1-2	Appellants' briefs
Box   2 Folder   3-4	U.S. Supreme Court, 1969-1970
Box   2 Folder   5	Unidentified appeal papers
Box   2 Folder   6-7	Notes and background material
Box   2 Folder   8-10	Anthony (United States ex rel. Kazel Anthony v. Leon J. Vincent) Note: Criminal case, racial discrimination by grand jury.
Box   2 Folder   11	Artis (New York v. James Artis) Note: Criminal case.
Box   2 Folder   12-16	Astro Cinemas (Astro Cinema Corporation, Inc., John Justin and Jess Rockman v. Thomas J. Mackell)
Box   2 Folder   17	Beckford (Glenville Beckford and Joyce Beckford v. City of New York) Note: Civil rights.
	Boulware (New York v. James Boulware) Note: Criminal case and right of voir dire.
Box   2 Folder   18	Correspondence
Box   2 Folder   19-20	Criminal court transcripts
Box   3 Folder   1	Notes
Box   3 Folder   2-5	New York Supreme Court
Box   3 Folder   6	U.S. Supreme Court Note: Writ of certiorari.
Box   3 Folder   7	Cowan, Ruth Note: Gender discrimination.
Box   3 Folder   8-11	Carbone (Vincent Carbone v. Stephen Dalsheim and Robert Abrams) Note: Criminal case, admissibility of evidence.
Box   3 Folder   12-13	Davis, Donald Note: Pornography and 1st Amendment.
Box   3 Folder   14	DeGregory (Leroy DeGregory v. United States) Note: Obscenity case.
	East Harlem Block Schools (Eversley Forte v. East Harlem Block Nursery) Note: Gender discrimination against men.
Box   3 Folder   15-16	Depositions
Box   3 Folder   17	Motions and declarations
Box   3 Folder   18	Summary judgment
Box   3 Folder   19	Appeal
Box   3 Folder   20	Trial preparation
Box   3 Folder   21	Defendant's exhibits
Box   4 Folder   1	Plaintiff's exhibits
Box   4 Folder   2	Deposition exhibits
Box   4 Folder   3-10	Epton (United States ex rel. William Epton v. Albert Nenna) Note: Anarchy case.
Box   4 Folder   11	Farmer (Sheldon Liebowitz v. James Farmer and NAACP)
Box   4 Folder   12-17	Fernandez (United States v. Fred Fernandez) Note: Criminal case, subversion.
	Ford (New York v. Roger Cwikla and Wilfred Ford) Note: Criminal case, coram nobis.
Box   4 Folder   18	Correspondence
Box   4 Folder   19	Notes
Box   4 Folder   20-21	Motions
Box   4 Folder   22	Miscellaneous
Box   5 Folder   1	Briefs
Box   5 Folder   2	Henry Winestine
Box   5 Folder   3	Court of Appeals argument
Box   5 Folder   4	Court proceedings and testimony
Box   5 Folder   5	Court papers
Box   5 Folder   6	Photos and clippings
Box   5 Folder   7-13	Gonzalez (New York v. Benjamin Gonzalez) Note: Criminal case, warrantless search.
Box   5 Folder   14-21	Green (New York v. Sophia Green) Note: Criminal case.
Box   6 Folder   1-3	Hall (Robert E. Hall, et al., v. Frank S. Hogan) Note: Pre-Roe v. Wade abortion case.
Box   6 Folder   4-7	Heimerle (United States v. James F. Heimerle and Richard G. Warme) Note: Counterfeiting, 5th amendment.
	Hill (Clarence C. Hill v. Coca Cola Bottling Company, New York and John Hurley) Note: Employment discrimination based on race.
Box   6 Folder   8	Correspondence
Box   6 Folder   9	Complaint
Box   6 Folder   10	Defendants memoranda
Box   6 Folder   11-12	Defendants
	Depositions
Box   6 Folder   13-14	Irving Dupass
Box   6 Folder   15	Waldo Gonzalez
Box   6 Folder   16-17	Clarence Hill
Box   6 Folder   18-20	John Hurley
Box   7 Folder   1	Thomas Mulroney
Box   7 Folder   2	Charles Riddell
Box   7 Folder   3	General
Box   7 Folder   4	Exhibits
Box   7 Folder   5	Answers to interrogatories
Box   7 Folder   6	Miscellaneous evidence
Box   7 Folder   7	Notes
Box   7 Folder   8-9	Plaintiffs pleadings
Box   7 Folder   10	Research, Zuckerman
Box   7 Folder   11-15	Testimony
Box   7 Folder   16	Unemployment hearing
Box   7 Folder   17-19	Hinckle (Bernice Kaplan and Rita Nemirov Cash v. Manor Books, Eliot Asinof, Warren Hinckle and William Turner) Note: Ramparts.
Box   7 Folder   20-24	Hyman (David Hyman, by his guardians v. Bernard Miller) Note: Male gender discrimination.
Box   8 Folder   1-13	Jent, William (William Riley Jent v. Louie L. Wainwright, Charles G. Strickland, and Jim Smith) Note: Criminal case.
Box   8 Folder   14-17	Johnson (Rankin Johnson v. Selective Service System Local Board 10 and John W. Brokaw) Note: Draft case.
Box   8 Folder   18	Jones (New York v. William D. Jones) Note: Race-based police brutality and harassment.
	Kadushin (Charlotte Kadushin v. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, et al.) Note: Employment discrimination.
Box   8 Folder   19	Correspondence, 1981-1992
Box   8 Folder   20	Complaint
Box   8 Folder   21	Decision
	Defendants
Box   8 Folder   22	General materials
Box   9 Folder   1	General materials (continued)
Box   9 Folder   2-4	Exhibits
Box   9 Folder   5	EEOC
Box   9 Folder   6	Filings
Box   9 Folder   7	Interrogatories
Box   9 Folder   8	Motion for summary judgment
Box   9 Folder   9	Notes
Box   9 Folder   10	Exhibits regarding Port Authority employment
	Port Authority
Box   9 Folder   11-12	Personnel papers
Box   9 Folder   13-14	Demographic reports
Box   9 Folder   15	Retainer and payments
Box   9 Folder   16	Termination proceedings, 1982
	Kern (Paul J. Kern v. News Syndicate Company, Inc.) Note: Libel suit.
Box   9 Folder   17	Correspondence, 1962-1964
	Supreme Court of New York
Box   9 Folder   18	General
Box   9 Folder   19	Answers
Box   9 Folder   20	Defendant
Box   9 Folder   21	Draft brief
Box   9 Folder   22	Housing Authority probe
Box   10 Folder   1	Legal research notes
Box   10 Folder   2	Notes on witness statements
Box   10 Folder   3	Passport affidavit
Box   10 Folder   4	Pleadings
Box   10 Folder   5	Summations
Box   10 Folder   6	Requests to charge
Box   10 Folder   7-8	Appeal and settlement
Box   10 Folder   8	Appeal pleading
Box   10 Folder   9	Deposition
Box   10 Folder   10-21	Kern (Paul J. Kern v. A.J. Hettinger, Jr., et al.) Note: Libel of credit.
Box   10 Folder   22	Kissling (Frances Mary Kissling v. Dean Rusk) Note: Passport case.
Box   10 Folder   23	Lien, Phan Kim Note: Allegation of murder by U.S. Green Beret soldiers.
Box   10 Folder   24-25	Loizou (New York v. Andrew Loizou) Note: Criminal case.
Box   10 Folder   26-28	Lovestone, Jay Note: Probate.
Box   11 Folder   1-5	Mapp (Dollree Mapp v. Frances Clement) Note: Criminal case.
Box   11 Folder   6-13	McBride (New York v. Clyde McBride) Note: Criminal appeal.
Box   11 Folder   14	McDade (New York v. Delores McDade)
Box   11 Folder   15-20	Metze (New York v. Lawrence Metze) Note: Criminal case, illegal search.
Box   11 Folder   21	Mezerik, Avram
Box   11 Folder   22	Miscellaneous
	Mosquera (United States v. Luis Fernando Quesada Mosquera, et al.) Note: Right to language translation in federal court.
Box   11 Folder   23	Transcripts
Box   11 Folder   24	Notes
Box   11 Folder   25	Search warrants
Box   11 Folder   26	Criminal dockets
Box   11 Folder   27	Legal filings Language: In Spanish.
Box   12 Folder   1-2	Legal correspondence
Box   12 Folder   3	Amicus curiae
Box   12 Folder   4	Plea agreement
Box   12 Folder   5	Legal proceedings
Box   12 Folder   6-11	Ottaviani (Roberta Ottaviani, et al., v. State University of New York at New Paltz, et al.) Note: Gender-based employment discrimination.
Box   12 Folder   12	Pauling (Linus Pauling v. News Syndicate Company, Inc.) Note: Libel case.
Box   12 Folder   13	Pavlow (Paul Pavlow v. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, et al.)
Box   12 Folder   14-17	Rodriguez (Anna Rodriguez, administratrix of Raul Rodriguez, Jr. and Adrian Rodriguez v. Thomas Gambetta, College Arms, Ltd., and College Arms, Inc.) Note: Wrongful death suit.
	Rojas (Fernando Rojas and Petrucia Rojas v. Alexander's Department Store) Note: Racial discrimination.
Box   12 Folder   18-19	Correspondence
Box   12 Folder   20	Docket entries
Box   12 Folder   21	Employee records
Box   13 Folder   1	Evidence of racial discrimination
Box   13 Folder   2	Exhibits
Box   13 Folder   3	Jury
Box   13 Folder   4	Medical exhibits
Box   13 Folder   5	Medical testimony
Box   13 Folder   6	Notes
Box   13 Folder   7	Other legal matters
Box   13 Folder   8	Criminal case papers
Box   13 Folder   9	Criminal court transcripts, 1985
Box   13 Folder   10	Criminal case notes
Box   13 Folder   11	Supreme Court of New York
	U.S. District Court papers
Box   13 Folder   12	General papers
Box   13 Folder   13	Defendants
Box   13 Box   14-15	Depositions
Box   13 Folder   16-20	Transcripts, 1990
Box   13 Folder   21	Briefs
Box   13 Folder   22	Appendix
Box   13 Folder   23	U.S. Supreme Court Appeal
Box   14 Folder   1-3	Sanchez, Jorge
Box   14 Folder   4-13	Scranton (United States ex rel. Agnes Scranton v. New York) Note: Criminal case.
Box   14 Folder   14-19	Sherman (New York v. Rebecca Sherman) Note: Criminal case.
Box   14 Folder   20-22	Simpson (Matthew Simpson, by his guardian Jeanne Simpson v. F.W. Woolworth Company, et al.) Note: Unlawful arrest.
Box   14 Folder   14	Sobel (Edna H. Sobel and circa Clutario, et al., and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) v. Yeshiva University) Note: EEOC claim and gender discrimination.
Box   14 Folder   23	Legal filings
Box   14 Folder   24	Memoranda and evidence
Box   14 Folder   25	Legal correspondence
Box   15 Folder   1	Legal correspondence (continued)
Box   15 Folder   2-3	Notes
Box   15 Folder   4	Correspondence
Box   15 Folder   5	Clippings
Box   15 Folder   6	Decisions
Box   15 Folder   7-10	Defendants
Box   15 Folder   11	Dockets
Box   15 Folder   12	EEOC
	U.S. District Court
Box   15 Folder   13	Miscellaneous
Box   15 Folder   14	Pre-trial order
Box   15 Folder   15-17	Court costs
Box   15 Folder   18	Motions regarding FRCP 60
Box   15 Folder   19	Response to court order
	Transcripts
Box   15 Folder   20-22	1979, 1981
Box   16 Folder   1	1986
Box   16 Folder   2	Unidentified transcript
	U.S. Court of Appeals
Box   16 Folder   3	Defendants
Box   16 Folder   4	Preliminaries
Box   16 Folder   5-16	Sobell (Morton Sobell v. United States)
Box   16 Folder   19-20	Spence (New York v. Vincent Spence) Note: Publication dispute.
	Thompson (United States v. Frank Thompson, Jr.)
Box   16 Folder   21	Correspondence
Box   16 Folder   22	Briefs
Box   16 Folder   23	Indictment and complaint
Box   16 Folder   24	Legal
Box   16 Folder   25	Notes
Box   16 Folder   26	Stipulation
Box   17 Folder   1	Stipulation (continued)
Box   17 Folder   2	Tucker, John Note: Draft case.
Box   17 Folder   3	Turco (Arthur Turco, Jr. and Black Panther Party v. Milton B. Allen, et al.)
Box   17 Folder   4-7	Variety (Nicholas Yanni v. Variety Inc., Daily Variety, Ltd., and Don Ross) Note: Defamation in a movie review.
Box   17 Folder   8	Vinson, Rubin Note: Criminal case.
Box   17 Folder   9-20	Vlahos (Paul Vlahos, et al. v. George Stofsky, et al. and Harold Shapiro) Note: Labor racketeering.
Box   18 Folder   1-10	Walker (United States ex rel. James A. Walker v. Robert J. Henderson) Note: Criminal case.
Box   18 Folder   11-17	Watts (New York v. Paul Watts) Note: Criminal appeal.
Box   19 Folder   1-5	Wesley (Rufus Wesley v. United States) Note: Criminal case.
	Young (United States v. Kenneth Raymond Chin and Elizabeth Jane Young Chin) Note: Criminal case.
Box   19 Folder   6	Search warrant and indictment
Box   19 Folder   7	Correspondence
Box   19 Folder   8	Correspondence regarding amicus curiae
	U.S. District Court
Box   19 Folder   9-10	Motions and filings
Box   19 Folder   11	Notes
Box   19 Folder   12	Trial
Box   19 Folder   13	Letters of support
	Court of Appeals
Box   19 Folder   14-16	Motions and briefs
Box   20 Folder   1	Notes
Box   20 Folder   2	U.S. Supreme Court
Box   20 Folder   3	Habeas Corpus
	Personal Interests
Box   20 Folder   4	Constitution Bicentennial
Box   20 Folder   5	Hiss, Alger, 1973-1978
Box   20 Folder   6	Kenny, Robert and Morris, Robert, 1958-1959
Box   20 Folder   7	Kunstler, William, disciplinary actions concerning the Chicago Seven, 1975
Box   20 Folder   8	Lawyers Committee on Chile, 1974-1976
Box   20 Folder   9	Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, 1986
Box   20 Folder   10-11	Margaret Sanger Research Institute Note: Piel was a trustee.
	McCullough, Dan
Box   20 Folder   12	General correspondence, 1966-1969
Box   20 Folder   13	Writings
Box   20 Folder   14-15	Driscoll v. Toledo Blade
Box   20 Folder   16	Lewis v. Lewis, 1968
Box   20 Folder   17	National Lawyers Guild (Mississippi Summer Project), 1964-1965
	Pilpel, Harriet
Box   20 Folder   18	Oral histories about birth control litigation, 1972-1975
Box   20 Folder   19	Correspondence and writings, 1971-1975
Box   21 Folder   1-3	Ramparts magazine
Box   21 Folder   4-5	Ridpath property
Box   21 Folder   6	U.S.-China Peoples Friendship Committee
Box   21 Folder   7	Women's rights, 1969-1974
	Wittenberg, Philip Note: Files in custody of Piel.
	Representation of Corliss Lamont
	Bill of Rights Fund
Box   21 Folder   8	Piel's involvement, 1959-1965
Box   21 Folder   9	Articles of Incorporation and formation
Box   21 Folder   10	Minutes
Box   21 Folder   11-14	Correspondence, 1954-1966, undated
	Cases
Box   21 Folder   15	Chew, Kwong Hai
Box   21 Folder   16	Cleveland Taft-Hartley law
Box   21 Folder   17	Davis, Horace B.
Box   21 Folder   18	Powell, John
Box   21 Folder   19	Hudson City News
Box   21 Folder   20	Independent Producers Corporation
Box   21 Folder   21	Koch, Leo
Box   21 Folder   22	Sunshine Books, 1958
Box   21 Folder   23	Check stubs
Box   21 Folder   24-25	Financial statements
Box   21 Folder   26	Clark Foreman Trust
Box   21 Folder   27	Grants awarded, 1954-1959
Box   21 Folder   28	Miscellaneous
Box   21 Folder   29	Press releases and press materials
Box   21 Folder   30	Tax exemption
Box   21 Folder   31-32	General correspondence
Box   22 Folder   1	American Civil Liberties Union
Box   22 Folder   2	Barenblatt opinion, 1959
Box   22 Folder   3	Book case
	Dewey, John
Box   22 Folder   4	Correspondence, 1960-1961
Box   22 Folder   5	Photocopied letters
Box   22 Folder   6	Divorce
Box   22 Folder   7	Loyalty oath, 1954
Box   22 Folder   8	Nation partnership
	United States v. Lamont
Box   22 Folder   9	General
Box   22 Folder   10	Clippings
Box   22 Folder   11	Writings
Box   16 Folder   17-18	Spahn (Warren E. Spahn v. Julian Messner and Milton J. Shapiro)
	Stone, Douglas (Douglas Stone v. Robert Taber and Lyle Stewart Publishing)
Box   22 Folder   12	Correspondence, 1959-1965
Box   22 Folder   13	Court papers
	Exhibits
Box   23 Folder   1	Chapter drafts
Box   23 Folder   2	Correspondence
Box   23 Folder   3	Notebooks
Box   23 Folder   4	Other materials
Box   23 Folder   5	Other correspondence to Taber, 1959
Box   23 Folder   6	Correspondence, 1959-1961
Box   23 Folder   7	Other draft chapters
Box   23 Folder   8	Bohemia translations and interviews
Box   23 Folder   9	Cuba maps and appointment book
Box   23 Folder   10	Miscellaneous