In the Winter 2023 edition of the Stereoscope, colleagues and family remember the life and legacy of the Honorable Robert Holmes Bell, who passed away at age 79 on June 8, 2023.

Court historian, Hugh W. Brenneman, Jr., introduces a portrait of Judge Bell and tributes from his colleagues and family highlight his life and career.

Volume 18, Issue 3 of the Stereoscope recalls Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s visit to Mackinac Island some 38 years ago, to attend the Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference. Court historian, Hugh Brenneman, Jr., paints a portrait of who she was in those early years, on and off the Court,and tells interesting and amusing stories of her time on the island and what the Conference may have foreshadowed.

In the Spring 2021 edition of the Stereoscope , Court Historian Hugh W. Brenneman, Jr. remembers the life and legacy of the Honorable Benjamin F. Gibson, who passed away at age 89 on January 13, 2021.

Memorialized as "The Gentleman Judge,” Judge Gibson served as District Judge in the Western District of Michigan during the 1980s and most of the 1990s.

He is as remembered for the exemplary manner in which he carried out his judicial duties as he is for the numerous racial barriers he overcame along the way.

"Major League Baseball in Grand Rapids." In the spring of 1914, the top legal talent in the nation gathered in Grand Rapidsto litigate over the "reserve clause" of Reindeer Bill Kiliker's 1913 contract with the Philadelphia Phillies. He had violated the clause by joining the Chicago Whales. He then repudiated the Whales contract by returning to the Philadelphia Phillies. The Chicago Whales and the federal baseball league sued seeking to enjoin Reindeer Bill from playing baseball for any team other than the Chicago Whales. The Phillies relied on the reserve clause which Reindeer Bill had violated, as a basis for justifying his return to the Phillies and repudiation of his agreement with the Whales.