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DASH v. MITCHELL

Civ. A. No. 3713-70.

356 F.Supp. 1292 (1972)

Samuel DASH, Chairman, et al., v. Hon. John N. MITCHELL, Attorney General of the United States, et al.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

February 7, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel A. Rezneck, Patricia M. Wald, Barbara A. Bowman, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs.

John H. Suda, James F. Rutherford, Washington, D. C., for defendants.

Before MacKINNON, Circuit Judge, and HART and PARKER, District Judges.

OPINION

MacKINNON, Circuit Judge.

The present case is an action seeking a declaratory judgment that the so-called preventive detention provisions of the District of Columbia Court Reform and Criminal Procedure Act of 19701 are unconstitutional, and a permanent injunction against their enforcement. The preventive detention provisions, specifically D.C.Code §§ 23-1322 and 23-1323 (Supp. IV, 1971), are asserted to be unconstitutional...

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