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. - t Lawyers for the Black Pat } . _ «+ thers Wednesday demanded i . .| that a federa) judge step aside Stas _ from appeals in their ceie- a’. . . brated civil suit, citing the ve . 4judge’s past affiliation with . the FBI. . : . : : 1 disclosure in Law Memio,} - 7 . the weekly Sun-Times Jegati i : - oe "+ gokamn, that U.S. Appeals , * - 7 Court Judge Wilbur F. Pell” . oT . dr. was an FBI special agent "from 1942 to 1945 and a | : dues-paying member of a dis- + puted FBI alumni group until - <: September, 1977, Jn April, Pell cast a strong : " , dissent in a 2-to-1 opinion : - - * that reinstated the multimii- ‘ ° _dion-dollar Panther suit against former Cook County + z rahan and others, meluding . _¥ Fred Hampton .and Mark ° Clark were killed. ; - ; Ja a motion filed in federat . . -* court here, the Panther faw- , yers asked that Pell himself, or step down, frorn further Panther proceedings ' and strike his April dissent ‘ . ‘from the court record. . . The 17-page motion alleges . that Pell’s dissent closely par- ° ailels what some critics see as. the aims of the alumni group, the Society of Forraer Special Agents cf tae FBI. - _ -§& +=Those critics portray the : . . ‘society aS a vigorous loboy- . ‘ing arm of the FBI They époiat out that in 1977 the so- ciety helped raise $500,000 to pax legal fees for John. J. Kearney, a former burean su- + pervisor indicted on charges ‘| of directing iftegal mail open- 4 ing and wiretapping. Pell previously has said . that he is not compromised . by the past affiliations. He + also said he did not take part in fund-raising for Kearney or several other former FBI officiais, =~ The move follows the Octy . State's Atty. Edward V. Han- * - . . ; the FBI, who conducted the » ° . "oe. * + 41969 raid in whieh Panthers “ “Tecuse” INDI. me tS NEWS P. EDITION Ei, abe) FE + se ear neater pera <7 5* Tyre FIA” EDITESS morrmamassere TITLE ‘Panthers ask - FRI-tied fudge to ste- aside CH. SARA c nee pee mn a ASSITICA Pe pe ene ee Be HKL ee 8 a C EE ET OA Oa CR aS SBUILMITTINAa csarea eed Lo — wea ae . Ciik IOAGS Lt b ita] au =