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Timestamp: 2018-04-20 03:22:18
Document Index: 37917195

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 2281', '§ 1983', '§ 1343', '§ 1983', '§ 1983', '§ 1343', '§ 42']

IGNACIO ACOSTA, VIRGINIA BOWERS, BERNICE ROBINSON AND DOVIE THURMAN, INDIVIDUALLY AND ON BEHALF OF ALL OTHER PERSONS SIMILARLY SITUATED, PLAINTIFFS,
This case is before this single-judge court pursuant to an order, 318 F. Supp. 1348, entered on October 22, 1970 by a three-judge court constituted by Kiley, Circuit Judge, and Perry and Napoli, District Judges. In said order the three-judge court withdrew its opinion, 312 F. Supp. 765, heretofore entered on May 11, 1970 and found the three-judge court bereft of jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 2281, in the absence of a sufficient constitutional question and, accordingly, dissolved the three-judge court. The three-judge panel remanded the case to this single judge "for an early determination of the questions whether the district court has jurisdiction over plaintiffs' claim for `retroactive benefits' because of the deductions made from their allowances, and if so, whether and to what extent plaintiffs are entitled to the `retroactive benefits' they seek, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983."
Jurisdiction being a threshold question and in response to the mandate of the three-judge court, this court will consider the issue of jurisdiction first.
Plaintiffs' complaint asserts jurisdiction solely under 28 U.S.C. § 1343(3) and (4) and alleges that they have an action by virtue of 42 U.S.C. § 1983. These statutes of the United States read as follows:
42 U.S.C. § 1983. Civil Action for Deprivation of
28 U.S.C. § 1343. Civil Rights and Elective
jurisdiction of any civil action authorized by law to
be commenced by any person:
(1) To recover damages for injury to his person or
property, or because of the deprivation of any right
or privilege of a citizen of the United States, by
any act done in furtherance of any conspiracy
(2) To recover damages from any person who fails to
prevent or to aid in preventing any wrongs mentioned
in section 1985 of Title 42 which he had knowledge
(3) To redress the deprivation, under color of any
State law, statute, ordinance, regulation, custom or
usage, of any right, privilege or immunity secured by
the Constitution of the United States or by any Act
of Congress providing for equal rights of citizens or
of all persons within the jurisdiction of the United
(4) To recover damages or to secure equitable or
other relief under any Act of Congress providing for
the protection of civil rights, including the right
to vote. June 25, 1948, c. 646, 62 Stat. 932; Sept.
3, 1954, c. 1263, § 42, 68 Stat. 1241; ...