(ORDER LIST: 516 U.S.)

ORDER IN PENDING CASE

FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1996

95-386	RICHARDS, JASON, ET AL. V. JEFFERSON COUNTY, ET AL.

The writ of certiorari is dismissed as

improvidently granted to the extent that it

includes the question whether the occupational

tax challenged by petitioners violates the Equal

Protection Clause of the United States Constitution.

The parties are directed to address at oral argument

only the remaining question: whether the Due Process

Clause of the United States Constitution prohibits the

application of res judicata in this case.