Bell v. Hood

MATHES, District Judge.

This action was brought by Arthur L. Bell and other associates of “Mankind *815United”, on behalf of that organization and themselves as individuals, against 37 special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, one policeman of the city of Los Angeles and several “John Does.”

Plaintiffs pray judgment for damages alleged to have been suffered as a proximate result of (1) claimed imprisonment by defendants in violation of their constitutional right to be free from deprivation of liberty without due process of law, and (2) claimed search of their premises and seizure of…