BISHOP v. GOLDEN

No. 68-Civ-1318.

302 F.Supp. 502 (1969)

Hattie BISHOP, Sweet Georgia Brown, Leslie Campbell, Esther Collins, Edgar Morris, Fred Perry, Elaine Rooke, Albert Vann and C. Herbert Oliver, Plaintiffs, v. Elliot GOLDEN, individually and as Acting District Attorney, Kings County, State of New York, Defendant.

United States District Court E. D. New York.

August 7, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William M. Kunstler, Arthur Kinoy, William J. Bender, New York City, Morton Stavis, Newark, N. J., for plaintiffs; by Nancy Stearns, New York City, of counsel.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., State of New York by Daniel M. Cohen, Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City, for defendant.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

JUDD, District Judge.

Defendant, formerly Acting District Attorney of Kings County, has moved for summary judgment to dismiss an action which seeks to enjoin the prosecution of indictments under state statutes and to recover damages from him for instituting such actions.

The plaintiffs were involved in the well-publicized events of the fall of 1968 surrounding the Ocean-Hill-Brownsville School District in Brooklyn. All but Rev...

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