COMMUNITY FOR CREATIVE NON-VIOLENCE v. PIERCE

No. 84-5682.

786 F.2d 1199 (1986)

COMMUNITY FOR CREATIVE NON-VIOLENCE, et al., Appellants, v. Samuel R. PIERCE, Jr., Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided April 8, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark A. Venuti, Washington, D.C., for appellants.

Michael J. Ryan, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Joseph E. diGenova, U.S. Atty., Royce C. Lamberth, R. Craig Lawrence, Newman T. Halvorson, Jr., Asst. U.S. Attys., and Gershon M. Ratner, Associate Gen. Counsel, H.U.D., Washington, D.C., were on brief for appellee.

Before BORK and SCALIA, Circuit Judges, and MacKINNON, Senior Circuit Judge.


Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge BORK.

BORK, Circuit Judge:

Appellants have moved to disqualify the United States Attorney's Office as counsel for the appellee in an appeal now pending in this court. That appeal is from a dismissal of their claims in Community for Creative Non-Violence v. Pierce, No. 84-1898 (D.D.C. Sept. 4, 1984). We deal with the motion for disqualification, not with the merits of the appeal. We deny the motion.

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