Hallman v. Phillips

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

INTRODUCTION

A. LEON HIGGINBOTHAM, District Judge.

This case comes before the Court on plaintiffs’ motion to lift a stay imposed on these proceedings by the Court in an unreported memorandum order dated February 20, 1975. Prior to the imposition of that stay, the plaintiffs, who bring this suit as (1) federal taxpayers and as (2) defendants and/or “targets” of state criminal prosecutions and grand jury investigations, had sought a preliminary injunction restraining the United States Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (“LEAA”) from supplying further federal…