WHITE v. UNITED STATES 493 U.S. 5 (1989)

United States Supreme Court

WHITE v. UNITED STATES (1989)

No. 88-928

Argued: October 03, 1989 Decided: October 16, 1989

Certiorari dismissed. Reported below: 853 F.2d 107.

Kenneth A. Payment argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs was James M. White, pro se.

Alan I. Horowitz argued the cause for respondents. With him on the brief were Solicitor General Starr, Assistant Attorney General Peterson, Deputy Solicitor General Wallace, Charles E. Brookhart, and Joan I. Oppenheimer. *

PER CURIAM.

The writ of certiorari is dismissed as improvidently granted.

JUSTICE WHITE dissents.

[ Footnote * ] Waller H. Horsley, Louis A. Craco, Charles E. Heming, Jonathan G. Blattmachr, Arthur M. Sherwood, Alexander C. Cordes, Sanford J. Schlesinger, Jules J. Haskel, Albert Kalter, Thomas P. Sweeney, and Geraldine S. Hemmerling filed a brief for the New York State Bar Association et al. as amici curiae urging reversal. [493 U.S. 5, 6]

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