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IN RE UNITED STATES

No. 1562, Docket 77-3041.

565 F.2d 19 (1977)

In re UNITED STATES of America, Petitioner. SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. The ATTORNEY GENERAL et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided October 11, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel R. Murdock, Asst. U. S. Atty., New York City (Robert B. Fiske, Jr., U. S. Atty., for the Southern District of New York, William S. Brandt, Thomas E. Moseley, Stuart I. Parker, Frank H. Wohl, Asst. U. S. Attys., New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellants.

Leonard B. Boudin, New York City (Herbert Jordan, Rabinowitz, Boudin & Standard, New York City, Mary B. Pike, Margaret Winter, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before VAN GRAAFEILAND and WEBSTER, Circuit Judges, and DOOLING, District Judge.

VAN GRAAFEILAND, Circuit Judge:

This action was commenced in 1973 by the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), the Young Socialist Alliance (YSA) and several individual members of these organizations. Their second amended complaint, which seeks both injunctive relief and some $40 million dollars in compensatory and punitive damages from the United States and various officials and employees, recites a litany of alleged wrongful acts on the part of the defendants beginning...

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