OTIS & CO. v. NATIONAL ASS'N OF SECURITIES DEALERS

No. 329 — 49.

84 F.Supp. 395 (1949)

OTIS & CO. et al. v. NATIONAL ASS'N OF SECURITIES DEALERS, Inc., et al.

United States District Court District of Columbia.

As Amended July 6, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph L. Weiner, New York City, Arnold, Fortas & Porter, Washington, D. C. (oral argument by Thurman Arnold, Washington, D. C.), for plaintiffs.

Howard C. Westwood, Covington, Burling, Rublee, Acheson & Short, Washington, D. C., Daniel M. Gribbon, and John W. Lindsey, Washington, D. C., for defendant National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., defendant.

Louis Loss, Associate General Counsel, Securities & Exchange Commission, and Edward H. Cashion, E. Russell Kelly, and Charles J. Odenweller, Jr., Attorneys, Securities & Exchange Commission, Washington, D. C., for defendants Securities and Exchange Commission, Edmond M. Hanrahan, Robert K. McConnaughey, Richard B. McEntire, Harry A. McDonald, and Paul R. Rowen, defendants.


MORRIS, District Judge.

This is an action in which the plaintiffs seek to enjoin the defendants pendente lite and permanently from taking any action to compel the disclosure of confidential communications between plaintiffs and any of their attorneys, and from making or enforcing any order, or taking any steps whatever against plaintiffs for failure to disclose such communications. It is further sought that the defendants be required, pending the determination of...

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