GRASSLEY v. LEGAL SERVICES CORP.

Civ. No. 81-277-B.

535 F.Supp. 818 (1982)

United States Senators Charles GRASSLEY, James McClure, Sam Hayakawa, Steve Symms, Jeremiah Denton, Congressman Albert Lee Smith, Iowa State Senator Stephen W. Bisenius, Plaintiffs, v. LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION, Hillary Rodham, Chairman of the Board of Legal Services Corporation, Stephen Engelberg, Revius Ortique, Cecilia Esquer, Howard Sacks, Michael Kantor, Ramona Shump, Robert Kutak, Richard Trudell, F. William McCalpin, Josephine Worthy, in their official capacity as directors of the Legal Services Corporation; Dan J. Bradley, in his official capacity as President of the Legal Services Corporation; Alan W. Houseman, in his official capacity as Research Director for the Legal Services Corporation; Legal Services Corporation of Iowa, Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. Iowa, C. D.

February 3, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger J. Marzulla, Maxwell A. Miller, Mountain States Legal Foundation, Denver, Colo., Donald G. Juhl, Nevada, Iowa, for plaintiffs.

Addison M. Parker, Richard A. Malm, Dickinson, Throckmorton, Parker, Mannheimer & Raife, Des Moines, Iowa, for defendant Legal Services Corp. of Iowa.

Steven Cole, Washington, D. C., Randy Duncan, Duncan, Jones, Riley & Finley, Des Moines, Iowa, for defendant Legal Services Corp. and individual defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION, RULING ON MOTIONS TO DISMISS, AND ORDER OF DISMISSAL

VIETOR, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, five United States Senators, a United States Representative, and an Iowa State Senator, seek declaratory and injunctive relief against lobbying and political activities allegedly conducted by defendants, the Legal Services Corporation (hereinafter the Corporation), its president and research director, and Legal Services Corporation of Iowa (hereinafter...

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