RONALD E. GALELLA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. JACQUELINE ONASSIS, Defendant-Appellee, JOHN WALSH, JAMES KALAFATIS AND JOHN CONNELLY, Defendants, and UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Intervenor-Appellee, 487 F.2d 986

Summary

Appellee sought en banc review of a panel decision modifying a district court's injunctive decree. The court denied appellee's petition for a rehearing because the panel's decision did not rise to the threshold of importance that was requisite to en banc reconsideration. The court determined that because the panel had applied an abuse of discretion standard when reviewing the district court's decree, an en banc decision would have minimal precedential impact on the important issue of what constituted the appropriate standard of appellate review of the terms of an injunctive decree. The court held that reconsideration of the question en banc would be wholly unwarranted because the question before the court was not a substantial question of unusual importance and the court's sparse judicial resources should not be expended unnecessarily.