Powell v. Katzenbach, 19285.
Decision Date | 02 December 1965 |
Docket Number | No. 19285.,19285. |
Citation | 359 F.2d 234 |
Parties | Diana Kearny POWELL, Appellant, v. Nicholas KATZENBACH, United States Attorney General, Appellee. |
Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — District of Columbia Circuit |
Miss Diana Kearny Powell, appellant pro se.
Mr. John C. Eldridge, Atty., Dept. of Justice, with whom Asst. Atty. Gen. John W. Douglas, Mr. David C. Acheson, U. S. Atty., at the time the brief was filed, and Mr. Alan S. Rosenthal, Atty., Dept. of Justice, were on the brief, submitted on the brief for appellee.
Before BAZELON, Chief Judge, WASHINGTON, Senior Circuit Judge, and WRIGHT, Circuit Judge.
Certiorari Denied April 18, 1966. See 86 S.Ct. 1341.
Appellant brought an action in the nature of mandamus against the Attorney General of the United States in order to force prosecution of a national bank and certain persons who appellant alleges were parties to a conspiracy in violation of various sections of Title 18 of the United States Code. Upon motion of appellee, the District Court struck two paragraphs of the complaint under Rule 12(f) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and dismissed with prejudice the remainder of the complaint for failure to state a cause of action. This appeal followed.
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