Correspondence from Grunow to Judge Gibbons Re: Withdrawal from Proceedings

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September 17, 1985

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The Honorable Julia Gibbons, Judge 
United States District Court 
Western District of Tennessee 
1157 Clifford Davis Federal Building 
Memphis, Tennessee 38103

Re: Garner v. Memphis Police Department,
No. 75-145

Dear Judge Gibbons:
This office is in receipt of your letter of September 

11, 1985, in which you set a status conference for^discussion of 
further required proceedings and a timetable for final disposition 
of the above-styled case.

As the Court file in this case should reflect, the 
State of Tennessee was neither a party nor intervenor in this case 
prior to 1983. At that time, the case was before the Sixth 
Circuit for the second time and the State, through the Office of 
Attorney General, moved to intervene under 28 U.S.C. § 2403(c) for 
the limited purpose of defending the constitutionality of T.C.A.
§ 40-7-108. That issue was fully disposed of by the United States 
Supreme Court in its decision rendered in this case on March 27, 1985

Given the limited and completed involvement of the State 
of Tennessee in the appellate proceedings of this case, this office 
feels that our continued involvement in any remaining issues between 
the original parties to this lawsuit would be unnecessary and inap­
propriate. Accordingly, and unless the Court objects, we do not 
intend to participate in further proceedings in this case at the 
trial level.

RAG:dkh



The Honorable Julia Gibbons, Judge 
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September 17, 1985

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