Legal Opinion
Michael McCarthy Arthur Waskow v. Richard G. Kleindienst
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided August 17, 1984No. 83-1789PublishedCited by 160 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STARR, Circuit Judge:
This case arises out of the 1971 “May Day” demonstrations throughout Washington, D.C. in protest against the Vietnam War. The principal, and ultimately disposi-tive, question presented by this appeal is whether the District Court abused its discretion when it refused to certify this case as a class action. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.
I
This litigation is of some considerable vintage, yet at this late date the questions before us are entirely of a threshold procedural nature. The complaint was filed by thirty-nine named plaintiffs on May 1,1972, seeking damages…
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