KENNEDY v. ROMMEL

Nos. 16447, 16450, 16448, 16449.

301 F.2d 544 (1962)

Robert F. KENNEDY, Attorney General of the United States, Appellant, v. Selina ROMMEL et al., Appellees. Robert F. KENNEDY, Attorney General of the United States, Appellant, v. Laura Irene DE COURTEN, a/k/a Laura Irene Von Courten, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided March 15, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mrs. Pauline B. Heller, Atty., Dept. of Justice, with whom Asst. Atty. Gen., William H. Orrick, Jr., Messrs. Morton Hollander and Arthur R. Schor, Attys., Dept. of Justice, were on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. James H. Mann, Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. John W. Pehle, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellees.

Mr. Richard Bancroft, of the bar of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Boston, Mass., who was on the brief for appellees, was introduced to the court pro hac vice, but did not argue.

Before WILBUR K. MILLER, Chief Judge, and PRETTYMAN and FAHY, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

Under section 9(a) of the Trading with the Enemy Act1 appellees sued the Attorney General, appellant herein, to recover property vested under the Act by appellant's predecessor as Alien Property Custodian. The vesting orders were five in number. The first was issued in 1947 and the others in 1951.

A suit may be maintained under section 9(a) only by one who is not an "enemy" as that term is defined in section 2(a) of...

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