AMERICAN APPAREL MANUFACTURERS ASS'N v. SARGENT

Civ. A. No. 73-3937-M.

384 F.Supp. 289 (1974)

AMERICAN APPAREL MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff, v. Honorable Francis W. SARGENT, Governor, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

February 6, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William I. Althen, George D. Webster, and Arthur L. Herold, Webster & Kilcullen, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

Kenneth Behar, Asst. Atty. Gen., Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, Mass., for defendants.

Before ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge, and GARRITY and MURRAY, District Judges.


OPINION

ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge.

Stated briefly, American Apparel Manufacturers Association, a non-profit trade association, brings this action against the Massachusetts governor and others to have declared unconstitutional Chapter 649, Massachusetts Acts of 1973, an act which establishes a certain flammability standard known, federally, as DOC FF 3-71, already made applicable by federal action,1 to children's sleepwear...

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