Robert J. Scarpa v. U. S. Board of Parole, Walter Dunbar, Chairman
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
ON PETITION FOR REHEARING
1Opinion of the Court
TUTTLE, Circuit Judge:
When this case was reached on the calendar for oral argument, a misunderstanding between appointed counsel and the appellant Scarpa caused the court to dismiss the appeal on the ground of mootness. Upon subsequent representations by the appellant, and with the cooperation of counsel, it has now been made to appear that the appellant did have a substantial issue to be presented to this court on appeal which was not mooted by any action that had occurred since his original filing of his complaint in the district court.1
Because of the misunderstanding, and because the court…
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