Legal Opinion

Brookens v. United States of America

District Court, District of Columbia

Decided March 24, 2015No. Civil Action No. 2012-0502PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM ORDER

RICHARD W. ROBERTS Chief Judge

Plaintiffs Benoit Brookens and Mary Todd filed this action asserting claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the common law against the District of Columbia, the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia and numerous other defendants in connection with Brookens’s arrest and prosecution for criminal contempt for violating an order that prohibited Brookens from practicing law or holding himself out as a lawyer in the District of Columbia. A memorandum opinion and order issued in October 2013 (“October Order”) dismissed all of the plaintiffs’…

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