FINK v. SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA

Civ. No. 86-1405.

654 F.Supp. 437 (1987)

Harold B. FINK, President Judge, Fifty-Fifth Judicial District, Potter County; and People for Justice, Plaintiffs, v. SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA, Robert N.C. Nix, Jr., Chief Justice of Pa., Judicial Inquiry and Review Board of the Supreme Court of Pa., Honorable James E. Rowley, Chairman of the Judicial Inquiry and Review Board; Robert Keuch, Executive Director of Judicial Inquiry and Review Board; Robert L. Potter, Esquire, Special Prosecutor of the Pennsylvania Judicial Inquiry and Review Board, Defendants.

United States District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania.

February 18, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clifford A. Rieders, Rieders, Travis, Mussina, Humphrey and Harris, Williamsport, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Arlin M. Adams, Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendants Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and Robert N.C. Nix, Jr., Chief Justice.

Howland W. Abramson, David R. Weyl, Philadelphia, Pa., for all other defendants.


OPINION

MUIR, District Judge.

I. Introduction.

On October 7, 1986, the Honorable Harold B. Fink and the People for Justice filed a complaint and a motion for a temporary restraining order. Judge Fink and the People for Justice requested that we immediately restore Judge Fink to his full duties as President Judge of the Fifty-Fifth Judicial District, Potter County, Pennsylvania and enjoin all proceedings...

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