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DRIVER v. HELMS

Civ. A. No. 750224.

402 F.Supp. 683 (1975)

Rodney DRIVER et al. v. Richard HELMS et al.

United States District Court, D. Rhode Island.

October 17, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvin L. Wulf, John H. F. Shattuck, American Civil Liberties Union, New York City, Richard W. Zacks, Providence, R.I., Burt Neuborne, New York University Law School, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Rex E. Lee, Asst. Atty. Gen., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., Lincoln C. Almond, U.S. Atty., Providence, R.I., for defendants.

Harry W. Asquith, Providence, R.I., for Lyman B. Kirkpatrick, Jr.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

PETTINE, Chief Judge.

This case involves claims by plaintiffs and the class they purportedly represent for money damages and injunctive and declaratory relief against some thirty present and former officials of the United States government for allegedly participating in and/or concealing a twenty-year program of opening first-class mail particularly to and from the Soviet Union. Plaintiffs contend that this program constitutes an unconstitutional...

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