This collection houses correspondence and other records documenting lawsuits that the James Agee Trust was involved in during Mary Newman's time as Trustee. The majority of the material shows a copyright suit that Victor Kramer brought against the Trust after it forbade publication of his James Agee: Selected Literary Documents. Other materials document a lawsuit that Mary Newman brought against the University of Tennessee, Alan McDowell, and bookseller H. E. Turlington for purchasing, selling, and mediating the sale of property that she claimed belonged to the Trust. Finally, the collection houses materials showing a lawsuit that Mary Newman brought against the Mark Taper Forum as a result of Loyola Marymount Professor Emmet Jacobs' alleged copyright infringement in adapting Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men for the stage.