AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES U. v. BROWN

No. 78-1906.

619 F.2d 1170 (1980)

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Harold BROWN, Secretary of Defense, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 11, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eloise E. Davies, Civil Division, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendants-appellants.

Joseph R. Lundy, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before FAIRCHILD, Chief Judge, and SWYGERT, CUMMINGS, PELL, SPRECHER and CUDAHY, Circuit Judges.


Reheard En Banc December 3, 1979.

CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.

In this lawsuit plaintiffs are seeking redress for alleged violations of their constitutional rights stemming from the defendants' investigations and intelligence-gathering activities aimed at the plaintiffs and the classes they represent.1 Last June a unanimous panel of this Court reversed the district court and held that the federal defendants (the Government) need not...

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