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DOSTAL v. STOKES

No. 19967.

430 F.2d 1299 (1970)

Theodore DOSTAL and David Gass, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Carl B. STOKES, Mayor of the City of Cleveland, Clarence L. James, Jr., Law Director, Joseph McManamon, Safety Director, Patrick J. Gerity, Michael J. Blackwell, Harry Leisman, Larry Todd, John McNulty and William J. Blakemore, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

August 7, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter S. Haffner, Cleveland, Ohio, Good & Haffner, Cleveland, Ohio, on the brief, for appellants.

Lloyd B. Silverman, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, for appellees.

Clarence L. James, Jr., Director of Law, Donald J. Guittar, Asst. Director of Law, Cleveland, Ohio, counsel of record for appellees.

Benjamin B. Sheerer, Rudd, Miller, Sheerer & Lybarger, Cleveland, Ohio, American Civil Liberties Union of a Greater Cleveland, on brief for amicus curiae.

Before WEICK, EDWARDS and BROOKS, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

Plaintiffs in this case filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, at Cleveland, seeking to restrain various police and public officials from proceeding with criminal charges against them (alleging assaults on police officers, in violation of the Ohio Revised Code § 2901.252(a)) and seeking damages for assaults they claimed the police officers had committed upon them.

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