HUMPHREY v. BAKER

Civ. A. No. 87-0128-LFO.

665 F.Supp. 23 (1987)

Senator Gordon J. HUMPHREY, et al., Plaintiffs, v. James A. BAKER, III, et al., Defendants, and the Honorable Spencer M. Williams, et al., Intervenor-Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

June 30, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William C. Lane, William A. Strauss, Marbury Foundation for Law & Fiscal Responsibility, McLean, Va., Alan B. Morrison, Public Citizen Litigation Group, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs.

Michael Davidson, Senate Legal Counsel, Ken U. Benjamin, Jr., Deputy Senate Legal Counsel, Morgan J. Frankel, Assistant Senate Legal Counsel, Washington, D.C., for defendant Secretary of the Senate.

Steven R. Ross, General Counsel to the Clerk, Charles Tiefer, Deputy GC to the Clerk, Michael L. Murry, Janina Jaruzelski, Asst. Counsel to the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., for defendant House of Representatives.

Richard K. Willard, Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Joseph E. diGenova, U.S. Atty., Brook Hedge, Mary E. Goetten, Karen Stewart, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendant Baker.

Kevin M. Forde, Richard J. Prendergast, Chicago, Ill., Thomas F. Railsback, Nash, Railsback & Plesser, Washington, D.C., for intervenors-defendants.


MEMORANDUM

OBERDORFER, District Judge.

I.

This action was brought by one Senator, five Congressmen, an organization of taxpayers, and two individual taxpayers against several officers of the Legislative and Executive Branches to prevent them from disbursing to Senators, Congressmen, judicial officers and certain officials of the Executive Branch, salary increases purportedly authorized by the Federal Salary Act of 1967, 2 U.S.C. § 351 et...

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