Law Department Records
odd: label: Abbreviations were used in preparing this series:
content: WU -- Western Union

FCC -- Federal Communications Commission

ICC -- Interstate Commerce Commission
name: label: Collection Creator
content: United Telegraph Workers.
label: Collection Creator
content: Western Union Telegraph Company
setName: label: See more items in
content: Western Union Telegraph Company Records
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1868-1979
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0205, Series 11
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: This series is divided into two subseries: 

1. Minutes of the Law Committee, 1883-1909

2. Law Department Publications, 1868-1979
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The Western Union Law Department Records consist of Law Committee meetings minutes, April, 1883 to December, 1909, and printed legal documentation, 1868-1979. The Law Committee Meeting Minutes document the committee's work on reviewing and reporting lawyer's bills, claims, and contracts.

The bulk of the printed materials date from 1900-1930s. There are local, state, circuit, appeal, district, state supreme and United States Supreme Court publications. The legal cases involve individuals, the United States, the Federal Communications Communication, the Interstate Commerce Commission, railroad companies, and other telegraph companies against Western Union Telegraph Company. The Law Department assigned, in some instances, a number to each case. This number is located in the upper right corner of a publication. This was done to keep various parts of a case together and for accessibility. Some publications are annotated, presumably by Western Union attorneys. Multiple copies of some publications exist, this is noted parenthetically in the container list.