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UNITED STATES v. COHEN

No. 23941.

389 F.2d 689 (1967)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. Meyer Harris COHEN, a/k/a Mickey Cohen, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

December 27, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles L. Goodson, U. S. Atty., Atlanta, Ga., Mitchell Rogovin, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lee A. Jackson, Joseph Kovner, Albert J. Beveridge, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

J. Victor Barr, Jr., Nashville, Tenn., Charles O. Baird, Jr., Atlanta, Ga., for appellee.

Before BROWN, Chief Judge, SIMPSON, Circuit Judge, and SUTTLE, District Judge.

SUTTLE, District Judge.

In February of 1964 Cohen, who had been imprisoned for income tax evasion,1 filed a complaint in the Northern District of Georgia against the United States under the provisions of the Federal Tort Claims Act,2 alleging that the United States had negligently failed to prevent an assault on him by a fellow inmate of the federal prison in Atlanta...

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