Legal Opinion
Dan Smoot v. Honorable Noel P. Fox, United States District Judge for the Western Districtof Michigan
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided December 13, 1965No. 16565_1PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WEICK, Chief Judge.
This controversy was first before this Court on the petition of Smoot for a Writ of Mandamus requiring the Honorable Noel P. Fox, Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan, to grant petitioner’s motion to dismiss with prejudice two actions for damages for libel filed by him against the League of Women Voters of the Grand Traverse Area of Michigan and certain individuals as defendants. The motion to dismiss with prejudice was filed by petitioner’s present counsel after the District Judge had entered an order requiring Smoot to post a…
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