Legal Opinion
SOCIALIST WKRS. PARTY v. Attorney General of US
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided June 30, 1978No. 73 Civ. 3160PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
GRIESA, District Judge.
This is an action brought by two related political organizations, the Socialist Workers Party (“SWP”) and the Young Socialist Alliance (“YSA”), and members of these organizations, claiming that various agencies and officials of the federal government have violated plaintiffs’ constitutional and other legal rights.
Plaintiffs have moved under Fed.R.Civ.P. 37(b)(2)(D) to adjudge the Attorney General of the United States in contempt for failure to obey an order of this Court of May 31, 1977. The latter order directed defendant Federal Bureau of Investigation to…
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