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BONNER v. CIRCUIT COURT OF CITY OF ST. LOUIS, MO.

No. 75-1056.

526 F.2d 1331 (1975)

Horace W. BONNER, Jr., et al., Appellants, v. CIRCUIT COURT OF the CITY OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided November 28, 1975.

Certiorari Denied March 1, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel H. Liberman, St. Louis, Mo., made argument for appellants.

Amicus curiae brief for State of Missouri was filed by John C. Danforth, Atty. Gen., William F. Arnet, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, Mo., and Charles B. Blackmar, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Louis, Mo.

Separate brief for appellee and Missouri Bar, amicus curiae, was filed by R. H. McRoberts, St. Louis, Mo., for Missouri Bar.

James J. Gallagher, Associate City Counselor, St. Louis Mo., for appellees Judges Tillman, Bloom, Walsh, Scott and Corcoran.

John F. Gillespie and Michael G. Ravetta, Asst. Circuit Attys., St. Louis, Mo., for appellee Brendan Ryan.

Cornelius T. Lane, Sp. Asst. Public Defender, St. Louis, Mo., for appellee Charles D. Kitchen.

Before GIBSON, Chief Judge, and LAY, HEANEY, BRIGHT, ROSS, STEPHENSON, WEBSTER and HENLEY, Circuit Judges, en banc.

Certiorari Denied March 1, 1976. See 96 S.Ct. 1418.

The case was argued and submitted before the Court en banc.

LAY, Circuit Judge.

Twenty black prisoners, each convicted for various crimes in the Circuit Court for the City of St. Louis, Missouri, appeal from the dismissal of their complaint alleging civil rights violations on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated. The defendants include five St. Louis Circuit Court Judges, the Circuit...

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