Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. United States

FIELD, Senior Circuit Judge:

The United States has appealed from an order of the district judge disqualifying the Department of Justice and the United States Attorney from representing four of its individual codefendants in this case. The district court concluded that such representation would violate Disciplinary Rules 5-105(A) and 5-105(B) of the Code of Professional Responsibility adopted by the North Carolina State Bar effective January I, 1974. 4A Gen.Stat. Append. VII 240 (Supp.1975).1

*1199The substantive litigation arises out of the crash of Eastern Airlines Flight 212 as it approached the…