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U.S. v. EDWARDS

No. 99-31130.

206 F.3d 461 (2000)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Edwin EDWARDS; Stephen Edwards; Cecil Brown; Andrew Martin; Bobby Johnson; Gregory Tarver; and Ecotry Fuller, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 8, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen A. Higginson, Asst. U.S. Atty., James B. Letten, Michael W. Magner, Asst. U.S. Atty., Thomas Landers Watson, New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Mary Olive Pierson, Cooper & Pierson, Baton Rouge, LA, for Defendants-Appellants.

James M. Cole, Bryan Cave, Washington, DC, for Stephen Edwards.

Rebecca L. Hudsmith, Lafayette, LA, for Cecil Brown.

Servando C. Garcia, III, Ryan Jared Roemershauser, Garcia & Bishop, Metairie, LA, for Andrew Martin.

Patrick Fanning, Law Office of Salvador Anzelmo, New Orleans, LA, for Bobby Johnson.

Hillar C. Moore, III, Baton Rouge, LA, for Gregory Tarver.

Kenneth Craig Smith, Jr., Smith & John, Shreveport, LA, for Ecotry Fuller.

Before JONES, DUHÉ and WIENER, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Edwin W. Edwards, Stephen Edwards, Cecil Brown, Andrew Martin Bobby Johnson, Gregory Tarver, and Ecotry Fuller (the "Defendants") appeal the district court's denial of their motion to lift a court-imposed gag order. We dismiss this appeal for lack of jurisdiction.

Three days after the United States indicted the Defendants for racketeering, the district court entered the gag order on November 9, 1998 pursuant to Local Criminal Rule 53. The gag order...

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