SMOOT v. FOX

No. 16565.

353 F.2d 830 (1965)

Dan SMOOT, Petitioner, v. Honorable Noel P. FOX, United States District Judge for the Western District of Michigan, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

December 13, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clyde J. Watts, Oklahoma City, Okl., John C. Cary, Grand Rapids, Mich., on brief, for petitioner.

Harold Sawyer, Grand Rapids, Mich., Lewis A. Engman, Charles E. McCallum, Warner, Norcross & Judd, Grand Rapids, Mich., on brief, for respondent.

Before WEICK, Chief Judge, PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge, and CECIL, Senior Circuit Judge.


WEICK, Chief Judge.

This controversy was first before this Court on the petition of Smoot for a Writ of Mandamus requiring the Honorable Noel P. Fox, Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan, to grant petitioner's motion to dismiss with prejudice two actions for damages for libel filed by him against the League of Women Voters of the Grand Traverse Area of Michigan and certain individuals as defendants. The motion to dismiss with...

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