Doron Weinberg and Patti Roberts v. John Mitchell, Individually and as Attorney General of the United States, Terence Kayo Hallinan v. John Mitchell, Individually and as Attorney General of the United States

588 F.2d 275 Doron WEINBERG and Patti Roberts, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. John MITCHELL, Individually and as Attorney General of the United States, Defendant-Appellee. Terence Kayo HALLINAN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. John MITCHELL, Individually and as Attorney General of the United States, Defendant-Appellee. Nos. 76-3250, 76-3645. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Dec. 19, 1978. Charles C. Marson, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellants. David H. White, R. John Seibert, Attys., Washington, D. C., for defendant-appellee. On Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Before BROWNING and MERRILL, Circuit Judges, and LINDBERG, District Judge. * MERRILL, Circuit Judge: 1 Between 1969 and 1972 warrantless telephone surveillance of certain persons not parties to this action was carried out under authorization of defendant-appellee as Attorney General of the United States. As a result of this surveillance some conversations of the plaintiffs in these two consolidated cases were incidentally intercepted. The surveillance had been authorized for the purpose of collecting information believed by the Attorney General to be necessary…