United States ex rel. Fuller v. Coffey

OPINION AND ORDER

REYNOLDS, District Judge.

The background of the present action commenced on December 9, 1968, when counsel for the petitioners filed Civil Action No. 68-C-379 (United States ex rel. Ronald Grant Fuller and Donald Edward Voigt v. Honorable John L. Coffey and the Circuit Court of Milwaukee County). On that occasion petitioners’ counsel filed a document entitled “Petition for Writ of Prohibition.” This document alleged that the above-named respondents had denied and were denying petitioners’ civil and constitutional rights and asked for relief in the form of (1) a prohibition…