PEEK v. MITCHELL

No. 19320.

419 F.2d 575 (1970)

Lonnie PEEK, Donald Bagley, Reverend George Colman and North Woodward Inter-Faith Corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. John N. MITCHELL, United States Attorney General, Robert Grace, United States Attorney, William Cahalan, Prosecuting Attorney, Wayne County, Jerome P. Cavanagh, Mayor, City of Detroit, and Johannes Spreen, Commissioner of Police, City of Detroit, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

January 6, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sheldon Otis, Detroit, Mich., for appellants, Otis & Rosenthal, Philo, Maki, Moore, Pitts, Ravitz, Glotta, Cockrel & Robb, Detroit, Mich., on brief.

Robert J. Grace, Detroit, Mich., for John N. Mitchell and Robert Grace.

David R. Kaplan, Detroit, Mich., for William Cahalan, Aloysius J. Suchy and David R. Kaplan, Asst. Pros. Attys., Detroit, Mich., on brief.

William P. Doran, Detroit, Mich., for Jerome P. Cavanagh and Johannes Spreen, Robert Reese, Corp. Counsel, William P. Doran and John E. Cross, Asst. Corps. Counsel, Detroit, Mich., on brief.

Before PHILLIPS, Chief Judge, PECK, Circuit Judge, and BROOKS, District Judge.


PECK, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs brought suit against the named federal, county and city officials seeking injunctive relief in the nature of mandamus under the Civil Rights Act.1 The District Court issued show cause orders and each of the defendants filed motions to vacate the order and to dismiss the complaint. At the close of the oral arguments, the District Court vacated the show cause orders and dismissed the complaint. Plaintiffs...

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