GENERAL FOODS CORPORATION v. BRANNAN

Nos. 9367, 9368, 9428, 9441.

170 F.2d 220 (1948)

GENERAL FOODS CORPORATION v. BRANNAN, Secretary of Agriculture, and three other cases.

United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.

October 19, 1948.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward R. Adams, Sidney S. Gorham, Jr., William Simon and Robert W. Wales, all of Chicago, Ill., for General Foods Corporation.

Albert E. Jenner, Jr., and Edward H. Hatton, both of Chicago, Ill., for Charles W. Metcalf.

Edwin L. Weisl, of New York City, Irvin Rooks, Lee A. Freeman and J. Gordon Henry, all of Chicago, Ill. (Rooks and Freeman, of Chicago, Ill., and Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, of New York City, of counsel), for Daniel F. Rice & Co., a partnership and Daniel F. Rice, individually, joint and several petitioners.

Howard W. Vesey, Wm. A. Clineburg and Vesey, Prince & Clineburg, all of Washington, D. C., for petitioner, Philip R. O'Brien.

James A. Doyle, Associate Sol., U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Office of the Sol., of Washington, D. C., J. Stephen Doyle, Jr., Sp. Asst. to the Atty. Gen., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Lewis A. Sigler, of Office of the Sol., U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, of Washington, D. C., and Otto Kerner, Jr., U. S. Atty., of Chicago, Ill., for respondents.

Before MAJOR and MINTON, Circuit Judges, and BRIGGLE, District Judge.


MAJOR, Circuit Judge.

These petitions are to review a final order, findings of fact and conclusions entered by Thomas J. Flavin, Judicial Officer, for and on behalf of the Secretary of Agriculture, dated April 28, 1947,1 under Sec. 6b, of the Commodity Exchange Act, 7 U.S. C.A. § 9. The order imposes certain sanctions as authorized by this section, which we think need not be described for the reason that the nature of the sanctions...

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