UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Concepcion Picciotto,         )
Ellen Thomas,                 )
Robert Dorrough,              )         C.A. No.87-3290 LFO
William Thomas                )
      Plaintiffs pro se       )
                              )
     v.                       )
                              )
Donald Hodel, ET. AL.         )
      Defendants.             )

MOTION FOR LEAVE TO REFILE PLAINTIFFS' OPPOSITION TO
DEFENDANTS' MOTION TO DISMISS

On January 4, 1988 plaintiffs filed an Opposition To Defendants' Motion To Dismiss. On January 12, 1988 defendants filed a Reply to the Opposition. On January 15, 1988 plaintiffs filed a Response.

On January 25th the clerk returned plaintiffs' Oppostiion, explaining that filings which do not conform to the Rules will not be accepted by the Court, and asking the cryptic question: "Why (sic) is a Proposed Amended Order?"

Plaintiffs are sure that an opposition to a motion to dis-miss is a pleading which conforms to the regulations. Therefore because the record contains a Reply to the Opposition, and a Response to the Reply, and becasue plaintiffs do not wish that the Court should be deprived of a complete record in this matter, in the interests of reason, justice, consistance, and clarity plaintiffs resubmit their Opposition To The Motion To Dismiss, sans the proposed amended Order.

Respectfully submitted,

______________________________
William Thomas,
Defendant, pro se
1440 N Street, N.W. Apt. 410
Washington, D.C. 20005

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Concepcion Picciotto,         )
Ellen Thomas,                 )
Robert Dorrough,              )         C.A. No.87-3290 LFO
William Thomas                )
      Plaintiffs pro se       )
                              )
     v.                       )
                              )
Donald Hodel, ET. AL.         )
      Defendants.             )

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I, William Thomas, hereby certify that a copy of the foregoing MOTION FOR LEAVE TO REFILE PLAINTIFFS' OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANTS' MOTION TO DISMISS was served upon Assis-tant U.S. Attorney Michael Martinez, Judiciary Square, 555 4th Street, NW, Washington, D.C., 20001, by hand on this 28th day of January, 1988.

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