GENERAL TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY v. WATKINS

No. 10429.

363 F.2d 87 (1966)

The GENERAL TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY, Petitioner, v. The Honorable R. Dorsey WATKINS, United States District Judge for the District of Maryland, Respondent. The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company and McCreary Tire & Rubber Company, Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided June 20, 1966.

Certiorari Denied October 17, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles J. Merriam, Chicago, Ill. (Norman P. Ramsey and Semmes, Bowen & Semmes, Baltimore, Md., and Merriam, Marshall, Shapiro & Klose, Chicago, Ill., on brief), for petitioner.

Edward S. Irons, Washington, D. C. (Benjamin C. Howard, Baltimore, Md., Mary Helen Sears, Washington, D. C., Stanley M. Clark, Akron, Ohio, and Irons, Birch, Swindler & McKie, Washington, D. C., on brief), for intervenors.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and SOBELOFF, BOREMAN, BRYAN and J. SPENCER BELL, Circuit Judges, sitting en banc.


Certiorari Denied October 17, 1966. See 87 S.Ct. 204.

SOBELOFF, Circuit Judge:

This is the third mandamus proceeding generated in this court by a patent dispute pending in the District Court between Firestone Tire and Rubber Company and McCreary Tire and Rubber Company, plaintiffs, against the General Tire and Rubber Company, defendant. It is a petition for a writ of mandamus to disqualify Judge R. Dorsey Watkins under...

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