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CRAIG v. BARNEY

No. 81-6890.

678 F.2d 1200 (1982)

Thomas Fletcher CRAIG, Jr., Orrin T. Lankford, Appellants, v. Sidney BARNEY, Commonwealth's Attorney, City of Petersburg; Gregory Welsh, Asst. Commonwealth's Attorney; Phillip R. Brooks, Seymour Bates, Alvin Sheffield, Carliss A. Batts, Estelle G. Evans, William F. McCoy, Elbert L. Pugh, Special Grand Jury Members, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 20, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burton W. Sandler (Clarence B. Neblett, Jr., Lawrence E. Blake, Prince George, Va., on brief), for appellants.

Sidney Barney, Commonwealth's Atty., T. Leslie Lindsay, Jr., Asst. Commonwealth's Atty., Petersburg, Va., for appellees.

Before HALL and SPROUSE, Circuit Judges, and POTTER, District Judge.

SPROUSE, Circuit Judge:

Thomas F. Craig, Jr., and Orrin Lankford appeal the district court's dismissal of their amended complaint seeking to enjoin special state grand jury proceedings in Petersburg, Virginia. Since the district court, in ordering the dismissal, correctly relied on the abstention doctrine, we affirm.

Craig and Lankford, who manage adult bookstores in Petersburg, were summoned to appear before a special state grand jury on May 29, 1981, and...

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