Jack Davies, Judge, 1990-2000

United States. 1971. Automobile insurance reform and cost savings: hearings before the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Ninety-second Congress, first session. Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off. pp. 2332-2354.

Available at the Minnesota Historical Society.

Correspondence of Judge Davies, appointed to the Court on July 1, 1990 by Governor Rudy Perpich. Davies retired on September 1, 2000. The files, which include his initial 1983 application for judicial appointment and supporting documents, mainly concern cases, legislation, and administrative and operational matters. There are also invitations to meetings, dinners, conferences, and speaking engagements. Correspondents include other members of the judiciary, state legislators, law school officials, and lawyers.

Minutes of the full committee and subcommittees for judicial discipline, criminal and juvenile law, county attorneys and district prosecutors, rules of criminal procedure, special projects, and probate law procedures (1969-1970, 2 volumes) and corporate responsibility (1971-1972, 1 volume).
Also testimony, copies of position papers, and copies of articles relating to the Equal Rights Amendment, with at least one letter received by Senator Jack Davies (1972-1975); materials pertaining to the committee's consideration of tort liability legislation relating to sovereign immunity (1975-approximately 1976); and published reports of various committees, subcommittees and commissions (1971-1973).

Subject files of Jack Davies, a Democratic-Farmer-Laborite who served as State Senator for Minnesota’s 60th District (Hennepin County) from 1958 through 1982. The files include correspondence, newspaper and magazine clippings, notes, legislative bills, and related materials documenting his service, particularly his sponsorship of legislation concerning a uniform brain death ruling, no fault automobile insurance, tax increment financing, stadium funding, and medical malpractice.