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MATTER OF CERTAIN COMPLAINTS UNDER INVESTIGATION

Nos. 85-2054, 85-5420.

783 F.2d 1488 (1986)

In the Matter of CERTAIN COMPLAINTS UNDER INVESTIGATION BY AN INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE OF the JUDICIAL COUNCIL OF the ELEVENTH CIRCUIT. Betty Ann WILLIAMS and Alan Ehrlich, as members of the official staff of the Honorable Alcee L. Hastings, and the Honorable Alcee L. Hastings, United States District Judge, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Spencer MERCER, as Clerk of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit; and the Honorable John C. Godbold, Chief Judge of the Eleventh Circuit, the Honorable Gerald Bard Tjoflat and Frank M. Johnson, Jr., Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and the Honorable Sam C. Pointer and William C. O'Kelley, Judges serving on United States District Courts within the Eleventh Circuit, as members of a committee known as the Investigating Committee of the Judicial Council of the Eleventh Circuit, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

February 20, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Terrence J. Anderson, Coral Gables, Fla., Robert Catz, Cleveland, Ohio, for plaintiffs-appellants.

John Doar, New York City, G. Stewart Webb, Baltimore, Md., for defendants-appellees.

Daniel Simons, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., pro se.

Jeffrey Miller, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., pro se.

Richard K. Willard, Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div. Brook Hedge, Washington, D.C., Stanley Marcus, U.S. Atty., Miami, Fla., for U.S.

Before CAMPBELL, Chief Judge, KEARSE, Circuit Judge, and PELL, Senior Circuit Judge.

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Chief Judge:

This opinion concerns the latest of the cases stemming from the Eleventh Circuit's investigation of Judge Alcee Hastings, a judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Judge Hastings and, in the instant case, present and former members of his staff have strongly challenged the legal and constitutional propriety of the investigation itself, of the Act of Congress which authorizes and directs judicial...

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