Klanke v. Camp

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

SEALS, District Judge.

Plaintiffs applied to the Comptroller of the Currency for permission to organize a new national bank pursuant to the provisions of 12 U.S.C. § 21 et seq. The Comptroller denied the application, and plaintiffs, alleging that the denial was “illegal, arbitrary, capricious and unfairly discriminatory,” filed in this court an action to compel the Comptroller to grant the charter or “to state the terms upon which plaintiffs’ application will be granted.”

The Comptroller’s response asserted that denial of an application for a na*593tional bank charter is a…