ROCHON v. F.B.I.

Civ. A. No. 87-3008.

691 F.Supp. 1548 (1988)

Donald ROCHON, et al., Plaintiffs, v. FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

August 11, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Kairys, Adam Thurschwell, and, on brief, David Rudovsky, Kairys & Rudovsky, Philadelphia, Pa., Cynthia L. Estlund, Washington, D.C., Allan R. Stein, Rutgers Law School, Camden, N.J., of counsel, for plaintiffs.

David M. Glass, Dept. of Justice, Brook Hedge, Branch Director, Dept. of Justice, and, on brief, James M. Spears, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendants F.B.I., Dept. of Justice, Meese, Sessions, and Reynolds.

Brian P. Gettings, Frank W. Dunham, and, on brief, Charles S. Russell, Jr., Cohen, Gettings, Alper, & Dunham, Arlington, Va., for defendants Hawkins, Santimauro, and Sharp.

Earl J. Silbert, Patricia Maher, and, on brief, Paul L. Colby, Schwalb, Donnenfeld, Bray, & Silbert, P.C., Washington, D.C., for defendants Mawn, Rarity, Koletar, and Dean.

William G. Hundley, and, on brief, Larry S. Gondelman, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Washington, D.C., for defendants Hegarty, Wilson, and Ahlerich.

J. Frederick Sinclair, and, on brief, Gerald Bruce Lee, Cohen, Dunn & Sinclair, Alexandria, Va., for defendants Webb and Groover.

Plato Cacheris, Sydney Hoffman, and, on brief, Stephen Bogorad, Dunnells, Duvall, Bennett & Porter, Washington, D.C., for defendants Blitzer, Stapleton & Wiley.

Edwin C. Brown, Jr., Brown, Brown & Watkins, Alexandria, Va., for defendants Evans and Harp.

Michael J. Riselli, Riselli & Pressler, Washington, D.C., for defendants Kempf and McGee.

John R. Keys, Winston & Strawn, Washington, D.C., Daniel Webb and Bernard Bobber, Winston & Strawn, Chicago, Ill., for defendant Dillon.

Patricia Douglass, Washington, D.C., for defendant Miller.

Patricia Douglass, Washington, D.C., Scott R. Lassar and, on brief, Kevin Totis, Karon, Savikas & Horn, Chicago, Ill., for defendant Veach.


OPINION

CHARLES R. RICHEY, District Judge.

Introduction

The allegations in this complaint are repugnant and chilling. Plaintiffs, a black Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI") agent and his wife, charge that FBI field agents and supervisors for more than three years committed or condoned frequent acts of racial harassment against them. This harassment allegedly included hate mail, obscene phone calls, assault and battery, death threats as well...

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