BARNES v. CARMEN

Civ. A. No. 84-0020.

582 F.Supp. 163 (1984)

Michael D. BARNES, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Gerald P. CARMEN, Ronald Geisler, Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

March 9, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Ratner, Center for Constitutional Rights, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Morgan Frankel, Asst. Senate Legal Counsel, Stephen Ross, Clerk, Gen. Counsel to U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs-intervenors.

Richard Willard, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendant.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

JACKSON, District Judge.

The original plaintiffs are 33 members of the United States House of Representatives, suing individually and as members of the House, of whom 31 voted in favor of a bill known as H.R. 4042 and two did not vote. They are joined by plaintiff-intervenors the United States Senate and the Speaker and bipartisan elected leadership of the House of Representatives.1 Defendant Geisler is the...

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