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HASTINGS v. U.S. SENATE, IMPEACHMENT TRIAL COM.

Civ. A. No. 89-1602.

716 F.Supp. 38 (1989)

Alcee L. HASTINGS, Plaintiff, Walter L. Nixon, Jr., Intervening Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES SENATE, the IMPEACHMENT TRIAL COMMITTEE, Established Pursuant to Senate Resolution 38, Walter J. Stewart, Secretary of the United States Senate, and Joseph E. Jenifer, as Acting Public Printer of the United States Government Printing Office, Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

July 5, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Terrence J. Anderson and Patricia Graham Williams, Miami, Fla., Robert S. Catz, Washington, D.C., and William M. Kunstler and Ramsey Clark, New York City, for plaintiff.

Michael Davidson and Morgan J. Frankel, Office of Senate Legal Counsel, Washington, D.C., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM

GESELL, District Judge.

At the eleventh hour United States District Judge Alcee L. Hastings seeks by this complaint to stop his impeachment proceedings in the United States Senate which are scheduled to commence July 10, 1989. Judge Hastings contends that the contemplated impeachment hearing is procedurally flawed because a committee is being used as part of the process. This, he contends, will deny him due process because the trial will not be...

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