Legal Opinion
Clark v. Memolo
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided May 9, 1949No. 18-1325PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WATKINS, District Judge.
Appellee brought this action in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to secure a declaratory judgment under the Declaratory Judgment Act 1 that a sentence imposed upon him by the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania was illegal and void. From an order granting such relief the Attorney General prosecutes this appeal.
Two questions are here raised: (1) Did the District Court for the District of Columbia have jurisdiction to grant such relief? (2) Was the sentence illegal and void?
On June 19, 1945 appellee was…
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