AMERICAN FEDERATION OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES v. U.S.

Civ. A. No. 86-0154.

634 F.Supp. 336 (1986)

AMERICAN FEDERATION OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant, United States Senate, Speaker and Bipartisan Leadership of the United States House of Representatives, Comptroller General of the United States, Intervenors.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

May 6, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sandra Sue Adams-Choate, Charles A. Hobbie and Mark D. Roth for plaintiffs.

Richard K. Willard, Asst. Atty. Gen., Joseph E. diGenova, U.S. Atty., and David J. Anderson, Neil H. Koslowe, Richard Greenberg and Lori Fields, Attys., U.S. Dept. of Justice, for defendant.

Michael Davidson, Counsel, U.S. Senate, Ken U. Benjamin, Jr., Deputy Counsel, U.S. Senate, and Morgan J. Frankel and John C. Grabow, Asst. Counsel, U.S. Senate, for intervenor U.S. Senate.

Steven R. Ross, Gen. Counsel to the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, Charles Tiefer, Deputy Gen. Counsel to the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, and Michael L. Murray, Asst. Counsel to the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, for intervenor Speaker and Bipartisan Leadership Group of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Harry R. Van Cleve, Gen. Counsel, U.S. Gen. Accounting Office, James F. Hinchman, Deputy Gen. Counsel, U.S. Accounting Office, Robert P. Murphy, Atty.-Advisor, U.S. Gen. Accounting Office, Lloyd N. Cutler, John H. Pickering, William T. Lake, Richard K. Lahne and Neal T. Kilminster for intervenor Comptroller Gen. of U.S.

Before SCALIA, Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, JOHNSON, District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, and GASCH, Senior District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.


PER CURIAM:

Plaintiffs, the American Federation of Government Employees ("AFGE") and two individuals who receive federal annuities under the Civil Service retirement laws, challenge the constitutionality of certain features of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, Pub.L. No. 99-177, 99 Stat. 1037, popularly known as the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act. The challenge is brought pursuant to paragraph 274(a)(2) of the Act, which authorizes "adversely...

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