Legal Opinion
Forsyth v. Kleindienst
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided March 8, 1984No. Nos. 83-1812, 83-3150PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
A. LEON HIGGINBOTHAM, Jr., Circuit Judge.
This case involves former Attorney General John N. Mitchell’s second interlocutory appeal from a denial of both absolute and qualified immunity for his authorization of unconstitutional FBI electronic surveillances of Keith Forsyth’s telephone conversations with William Davidon. Forsyth v. Kleindienst, 599 F.2d 1203 (3d Cir.1979) *269(“Forsyth I"), cert. denied, 453 U.S. 913, 101 S.Ct. 3147, 69 L.Ed.2d 997 (1981), reh. denied 453 U.S. 928, 102 S.Ct. 892, 69 L.Ed.2d 1025 (1981). We remanded the first interlocutory appeal directing the…
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3Cited by29 opinions
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