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GARBER v. UNITED STATES

No. 77-1290.

578 F.2d 414 (1978)

William J. GARBER and John J. Hurley, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided May 4, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert J. Ahern, Jr., Bailey's Cross Roads, Va., was on brief, for appellants.

John Mahoney, Jr., Washington, D. C., also entered an appearance for appellants.

Roanne L. Mann, Atty., for Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., with whom Barbara Allen Babcock, Asst. Atty. Gen., Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., and Ronald R. Glancz, Atty., for Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., were on brief, for appellee.

Before SWYGERT, United States Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit, and LEVENTHAL and ROBB, Circuit Judges.

Opinion for the Court filed by LEVENTHAL, Circuit Judge.

LEVENTHAL, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs are lawyers who were visiting their prisoner clients in the cell block of the United States Court House in the District of Columbia, and were taken hostage by two prisoners who acquired guns while in the cell blocks. Plaintiffs were held from July 11, 1974, until July 14, when they made their escape with the use of a smuggled key. They sued the United States under...

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