BERGMAN v. UNITED STATES

No. G 77-6.

551 F.Supp. 407 (1982)

Walter BERGMAN and Frances Bergman, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Clarence M. Kelley, individually and as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and as successor to J. Edgar Hoover, Former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; Richard Held, individually and as Assistant Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; Barrett G. Kemp, individually and as a former employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Thomas J. Jenkins, individually and as a former employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and four unknown agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Michigan, S.D.

November 19, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Goodman, Neal Bush, Detroit, Mich. (Kenneth Weidaw, II, of counsel, Grand Rapids, Mich.), for plaintiffs.

R. Joseph Sher, Torts Branch, Civ. Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., John Smietanka, U.S. Atty., Grand Rapids, Mich., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

ENSLEN, District Judge.

Plaintiffs' filed this civil action on January 4, 1977 against several named and unnamed Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents, in their individual and official capacities, and the United States government, seeking damages and declaratory relief for alleged violations of their rights arising under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution, under Title 42 of...

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