KENT v. BENSON

No. 90-5710.

945 F.2d 372 (1991)

Saul KENT, William Faloon, the Life Extension Foundation, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. James BENSON, Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Dexter Lehtinen, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

October 22, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Pasano, Zuckerman, Spaeder, Taylor & Evans, Humberto J. Pena, Guy A. Rasco, Miami, Fla., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Richard Essen, Essen & Essen, P.A., North Miami Beach, Fla., for William Faloon.

Dexter W. Lehtinen, U.S. Atty., Miami, Fla., Barbara K. Bisno, Asst. U.S. Atty., Deborah S. Smolover, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Jacqueline H. Eagle, Office of Consumer Litigation, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellees.

Before KRAVITCH and EDMONDSON, Circuit Judges, and CLARK, Senior Circuit Judge.


PER CURIAM:

This is a frivolous appeal from the district court's denial of plaintiffs' suit to enjoin the United States Attorney from conducting a grand jury proceeding involving the plaintiffs. On or about April 9, 1990, appellants were advised by letter that they were targets of a federal grand jury investigation. The investigation involved an inquiry about whether plaintiffs and their companies had participated in criminal offenses involving the distribution of...

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