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DRIVER v. HELMS

Civ. A. No. 75-0224.

456 F.Supp. 496 (1978)

Rodney DRIVER et al. v. Richard HELMS et al.

United States District Court, D. Rhode Island.

September 11, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvin L. Wulf, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York City, Richard W. Zacks, Providence, R. I., Burt Neuborne, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Charles R. Donnenfeld, Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin, Kahn, Washington, D. C., Guy J. Wells, Providence, R. I., Jacquelin A. Swords, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, New York City, George M. Vetter, Jr., Providence, R. I., Walter H. Fleischer, Cole & Groner, Washington, D. C., Harry W. Asquith, Everett C. Sammartino, Asst. U. S. Atty., Providence, R. I., Rex E. Lee, John T. Boese, Office of Special Litigation, Civ. Div., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Donald J. Cohn, Webster, Sheffield, Fleishmann, Hitchcock & Brookfield, New York City, Alan T. Dworkin, Providence, R. I., Plato Cacheris, Hundley, Cacheris & Sharp, Jon T. Brown, Duncan, Brown, Weinberg & Palmer, Seymour Glanzer, Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin, Washington, D. C., Joseph V. Cavanagh, Providence, R. I., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

PETTINE, Chief Judge.

In this suit for declaratory and injunctive relief and money damages, plaintiffs have sued various former and present officials of the United States for allegedly opening their mail in contravention of various constitutional provisions. The United States moved to intervene in this case as a party defendant; and that motion was granted on September 26, 1975. It argues to the Court that, because criminal investigations...

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