342 F.2d 931 - Moses v. Katzenbach — 342 F.2d 931

How this case has been cited

Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 1984 · most notably Adams v. Richardson (1973), Newman v. United States (1967)

23 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions

Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

¶1Mr. William M. Kunstler, New York City, for appellants.

¶2Mr. Alan S. Rosenthal, Atty., Dept, of Justice, with whom Asst. Atty. Gen. John W. Douglas and Messrs. David C. Acheson, U. S. Atty., and John C. Eld-ridge, Atty., Dept, of Justice, were on the brief, for appellees.

¶3Before Bastían, Wright and McGowan, Circuit Judges.

¶4Judgment

¶5PER CURIAM.

¶6This cause came on to be heard on the record on appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, and was argued by counsel.

¶7On consideration whereof It is ordered and adjudged by this court that the judgment of the District Court appealed from in this cause be, and it is hereby, affirmed.

¶8WRIGHT, Circuit Judge

¶9(concurring) :

¶10It seems more than passing strange, to me at least, that in some parts of this country citizens exercising their First Amendment rights of assembly, petition and free speech are arrested and convicted by the hundreds, while perpetrators of innumerable church bombings and burnings, kidnappings, beatings, maimings and murders of Negroes and civil rights workers are not prosecuted— or even apprehended. Perhaps, as appellants suggest, federal laws, or their enforcement, in this area are indeed inadequate. But I agree that an investigation as to the adequacy, or the execution, of these laws is not a matter within the jurisdiction of the judicial branch of this Government.