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DAVIS v. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

No. 7003.

109 F.2d 6 (1940)

DAVIS et al. v. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 5, 1940.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Justus Chancellor and Justus Chancellor, Jr., both of Chicago, Ill., for appellants.

Thomas B. Hart, of Chicago, Ill. (Chester T. Lane, Gen. Counsel, Securities and Exchange Commission, and Christopher M. Jenks, Asst. Gen. Counsel, both of Washington, D. C., W. McNeil Kennedy, of Chicago, Ill., and John Logan O'Donnell, of Washington, D. C., of counsel), for appellee.

Before SPARKS, MAJOR, and TREANOR, Circuit Judges.

MAJOR, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of criminal contempt entered June 22, 1939, for disobedience of a final decree of April 14, 1938. By this decree, defendants and others, including the Universal Order of Plenocrats, an unincorporated association, and the members thereof, were enjoined from obtaining memberships, applications and subscriptions in and from financing "Plenocracy" in violation of Section 17 of the Securities Act of 1933, § 77a...

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