CLARK v. VALEO

No. 76-1825.

559 F.2d 642 (1977)

Ramsey CLARK et al., Plaintiffs, v. Francis R. VALEO, Secretary of the United States Senate, et al., Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided January 21, 1977.

As Amended January 24, 1977.

Judgment Affirmed June 6, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry P. Ellsworth, Washington, D.C., with whom Alan B. Morrison and Girardeau A. Spann, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for plaintiff Clark.

Rex E. Lee, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D.C., with whom Earl J. Silbert, U.S. Atty., and Leonard Schaitman, Anthony J. Steinmeyer, and Paul Blankenstein, Attys., App. Section, Civ. Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for intervening plaintiff United States.

Cornelius B. Kennedy, Washington, D.C., for defendant Valeo.

Eugene Gressman, Washington, D.C., for defendant Edmund L. Henshaw, Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.

Charles N. Steele, Atty., Federal Election Commission, Washington, D.C., with whom John G. Murphy, Jr., Gen. Counsel, Washington, D.C. (at the time the brief was filed), and William C. Oldaker, Asst. Gen. Counsel (at the time the brief was filed), Federal Election Commission, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for defendant Federal Election Commission.

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


Opinion for the court per curiam.

Concurring opinion, in which BAZELON, Chief Judge, and J. SKELLY WRIGHT, Circuit Judge, join, filed by TAMM, Circuit Judge.

Concurring opinion filed by LEVENTHAL, Circuit Judge.

Dissenting opinion filed by SPOTTSWOOD W. ROBINSON, III, Circuit Judge.

Dissenting opinion filed by MacKINNON, Circuit Judge.

PER CURIAM:

Ramsey Clark, then a candidate...

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