Waller v. Butkovich

MEMORANDUM

MERHIGE, District Judge.

Before the Court is plaintiffs’ “Renewed Motion to Dismiss Ku Klux Klan and Nazi Defendants’ Purported Counterclaims.” Plaintiffs filed the motion on February 26, 1985. Although filed only two weeks before trial, the Court deemed it appropriate to entertain the motion in view of the possibility that, if well taken, a simplification of the issues in this factually complicated lawsuit might well result. Plaintiffs argued the motion at the Court’s hearing in Greensboro on February 28, 1985.

The Klan and Nazi defendants against whom the instant motion is directed…