PALMORE v. SUPERIOR COURT OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 74-1832.

515 F.2d 1294 (1975)

Roosevelt F. PALMORE, Appellant, v. SUPERIOR COURT OF the DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA et al.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided July 9, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank F. Flegal, Washington, D. C., for appellant in No. 74-1832.

Albert H. Turkus, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., John A. Terry, Warren R. King, Craig M. Bradley, and Tobey W. Kaczensky, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief for appellees.

Before BAZELON, Chief Judge, and WRIGHT, McGOWAN, TAMM, LEVENTHAL, ROBINSON, MacKINNON, ROBB and WILKEY, Circuit Judges, sitting en banc.


Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge TAMM.

Dissenting opinion filed by Circuit Judge ROBB.

TAMM, Circuit Judge:

This case and its companion, Pressley v. Swain, No. 73-1975, also decided today, present the important question whether Congress, by enacting 23 D.C. Code § 110(g) (1973), as part of the District of Columbia Court Reform and Criminal Procedure Act of 1970, eliminated the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the...

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