FINK v. SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA

Civ. No. 86-1405.

651 F.Supp. 1238 (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 Judical 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.

January 16, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

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


OPINION

MUIR, District Judge.

I. Introduction.

This case is on our January 1987 trial list for purposes of Plaintiffs' application for a preliminary injunction. On October 29, 1986, the Defendants filed a motion to dismiss the complaint. A supporting brief was filed on November 12, 1986. A brief in opposition was filed December 8, 1986. No reply brief has been filed. This matter is now ripe for our consideration.

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