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Allen v. United States

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit
Mar 25, 1946
154 F.2d 329 (D.C. Cir. 1946)

Opinion

Nos. 9077, 9078, 9101, 9133.

Submitted February 21, 1946.

Decided March 25, 1946.

Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia.

Actions by James R. Allen against the United States of America and Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury of the United States of America for an injunction restraining defendants from paying moneys out of the United States Treasury for certain purposes, against Harry S. Truman, President of the United States, against Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States and others, and against David A. Pine, Associate Justice of the District Court for damages. From judgments dismissing the complaints, the plaintiff appeals.

Affirmed.

Mr. James R. Allen, pro se.

Messrs. Edward M. Curran, United States Attorney, and Charles B. Murray, Daniel B. Maher, and Sidney S. Sachs, Assistant United States Attorneys, all of Washington, D.C., on the brief for appellees.

Before CLARK and WILBUR K. MILLER, Associate Justices, and MORRIS, District Judge.

Sitting by designation.


All of these cases are appeals from the action of the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia, in which the complaints therein were, upon motions of the appellees, dismissed. In cases Nos. 9101 and 9133 motions by the appellees are made here to dismiss the appeals. No appeal is taken to this Court in case No. 9101 with respect to the defendant, the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

In case No. 9077 an injunction was sought against the appellees United States of America and Henry Morgenthau, Jr., then Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, to restrain said appellees from paying monies out of the United States Treasury for certain purposes enumerated in the complaint. In each of the other three cases, and with respect to all of the appellees therein, money damages were sought by the appellant for acts, and conspiracies to act in certain of the cases, alleged to have been done, or conspired to be done, by the appellees in the course of their official duties as judicial and executive officers of the United States. It has been so repeatedly held that actions seeking the relief sought in No. 9077, or seeking the relief sought in the remaining three actions, cannot be maintained that no discussion of the principles of law is here required.

The court below properly dismissed the complaints upon appropriate motions. It is not necessary to consider the motions to dismiss the appeals filed in cases Nos. 9101 and 9133. The judgments of the court below are affirmed.

Affirmed.


Summaries of

Allen v. United States

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit
Mar 25, 1946
154 F.2d 329 (D.C. Cir. 1946)
Case details for

Allen v. United States

Case Details

Full title:ALLEN v. UNITED STATES et al. SAME v. TRUMAN, President. SAME v…

Court:United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit

Date published: Mar 25, 1946

Citations

154 F.2d 329 (D.C. Cir. 1946)
81 U.S. App. D.C. 53

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