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DOE v. CIVILETTI

No. 151, Docket 79-6250.

635 F.2d 88 (1980)

Jane DOE, Individually and on behalf of her four infant children, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Benjamin CIVILETTI, United States Attorney General, John Fallon, Director, Northeastern Region, Federal Drug Enforcement Administration, Norman A. Carlson, Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Jack Walsh, United States Marshals Service, and the United States of America, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided October 15, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jo Ann Cahn, New York City, for plaintiff-appellant.

Twila L. Perry, Asst. U. S. Atty., S. D. New York, New York City (John S. Martin, Jr., U. S. Atty., Michael H. Dolinger, Asst. U. S. Atty., New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellees.

Before WATERMAN, KAUFMAN and MESKILL, Circuit Judges.

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:

Aware that threats of retaliation were discouraging Government witnesses from testifying against participants in organized crime, Congress ten years ago passed Title V of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970. The law authorized the Attorney General to provide for the protection and subsistence of persons who might testify for the Government, or did so testify, at the trials of organized crime figures. It vested the Attorney General...

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