WALLER v. BUTKOVICH

Civ. A. No. 80-605-G.

605 F.Supp. 1137 (1985)

James WALLER, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Bernard BUTKOVICH, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, M.D. North Carolina, Greensboro Division.

March 27, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

P. Lewis Pitts, Jr., Greensboro, N.C., Carolyn McAllaster, Durham, N.C., Dan Sheehan, Washington, D.C., Stewart Kwoh, Legal Alliance for G'bo Justice, Los Angeles, Cal., Flint Taylor, Michael Deutsch, People's Law Office, Chicago, Ill., James McNamara, Columbus, Ohio, Burt Neuborne, Amer. Civ. Liberties, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Norajean M. Flanagan, Criminal Section, Civil Rights Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Prosecution in Criminal Case.

Robert W. Warren, Black Mountain, N.C., Jonathan C. Moore, Nat. Lawyers Guild, New York City, for Amicus Curiae.

Virgil Griffin, David Wayne Matthews, Lawrence Gene Morgan, Coleman Blair Pridmore, Lisford Carl Nappier, Sr., Jerry Paul Smith, Michael Eugene Clinton, Roy Clinton Toney, Roland Wayne Wood, Claude Matthew McBride, Jr., Edward W. Dawson, Rayford Milano Caudle, Jack Wilson Fowler, Jr., Harold Covington, Gorrell Pierce, Billy Joe Franklin, Terry Wayne Hartsoe, Harold Dean Flowers, and Mark Sherer, pro se.

Charles E. Nichols, Fred T. Hamlet, Kenneth Kyre, Jr., Jesse L. Warren, City Atty., Greensboro, N.C., for Swing, Bateman, Baucom, Melvin, Lovelace and City of Greensboro, N.C.

R. Joseph Sher, Asst. Director, Eileen O'Brien, Trial Atty., Torts Branch, Civ. Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., Kenneth W. McAllister, U.S. Atty., Greensboro, N.C., for Butkovich, Pelczar, Pence, Moses, Westra and Conroy.

Charles T. Hagan, Jr., Daniel W. Fouts, Adams, Kleemeier, Hagan, Hannah & Fouts, Larry I. Moore, III, Gerard M. Chapman, Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, Greensboro, N.C., Appointed as Friend of Court to represent indigent defendants.


MEMORANDUM

MERHIGE, District Judge.

Before the Court is plaintiffs' "Renewed Motion to Dismiss Ku Klux Klan and Nazi Defendants' Purported Counterclaims." Plaintiffs filed the motion on February 26, 1985. Although filed only two weeks before trial, the Court deemed it appropriate to entertain the motion in view of the possibility that, if well taken, a simplification of the issues in this factually complicated lawsuit might well result. Plaintiffs argued...

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