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CATO v. U.S.

Nos. 94-17102, 94-17104.

70 F.3d 1103 (1995)

Jewel CATO; Joyce Cato; Howard Cato; Edward Cato, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee. Leerma PATTERSON; Charles Patterson; Bobbie Trice Johnson, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided December 4, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eva Jefferson Paterson and William McNeill, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, San Francisco, California, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Mary Beth Uitti, Assistant United States Attorney, San Francisco, California, for defendant-appellee.

Before: SCHROEDER, FLETCHER, and RYMER, Circuit Judges.

RYMER, Circuit Judge:

Two groups of plaintiffs, Jewel Cato, Joyce Cato, Howard Cato and Edward Cato; and Leerma Patterson, Charles Patterson, and Bobbie Trice Johnson (collectively "Cato"), filed nearly identical complaints in forma pauperis against the United States for damages due to the enslavement of African Americans and subsequent discrimination against them, for an acknowledgment of discrimination, and for an apology.1 The...

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