Connecticut v. Ingram

MANSFIELD, District Judge.*

These cases came before this Court by virtue of the State of Connecticut’s motion to dismiss removal petitions filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1443 1 and 1446 by Joseph Ingram and James M. Monks.2 The removal petitions of Ingram and Monks indicate that they are seeking to transfer their eases from the Connecticut Circuit Court to this Court in order “to protect rights guaranteed petitioner[s] under the Vth, Vlth and XIVth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution.” Realizing that such broad allegations were insufficient to support removal under 28 U.S.C. § 1443, see…