Legal Opinion
Twelve John Does v. District of Columbia Appeal of Edwin A. Meese, Iii, Attorney General of the United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided March 28, 1988No. 87-5254PublishedCited by 238 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge D.H. GINSBURG.
D.H. GINSBURG, Circuit Judge:
The Attorney General of the United States appeals from (1) a district court order reinstating him in this case, from which he had been dismissed as a defendant in 1980, and from (2) a preliminary injunction barring him from designating District of Columbia prisons as the place of confinement for prisoners convicted under the laws of the District in D.C. Superior Court. 668 F.Supp. 20.
The Attorney General was originally named as a defendant not only in this case, in which appellees challenge the…
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3Cited by238 opinions
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