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CHESTNUT v. PEOPLE OF STATE OF NEW YORK

No. 164, Docket 30402.

370 F.2d 1 (1966)

Otis CHESTNUT, Susan Karp, Stephen Martinot, Ellen Shallit, Michael Brown, Jeremiah Gelles, Levi Laub, and Robert Apter, Appellants, v. The PEOPLE OF the STATE OF NEW YORK, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided December 2, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Basil R. Pollitt, New York City (Sanford M. Katz, New York City, on the brief), for appellants.

Joseph A. Phillips, Asst. Dist. Atty. (Frank S. Hogan, Dist. Atty., New York County, on the brief), for appellee.

Before LUMBARD, Chief Judge, and MEDINA and KAUFMAN, Circuit Judges.

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:

The eight appellants claim the right to have the criminal cases pending against them in the state court removed to the federal court on the ground that they will be denied or cannot enforce in the state court their rights arising under a law providing for such equal civil rights.

Appellants have been charged in informations filed in the Criminal Court of the City of New York with criminal contempt under § 600(6) of the...

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