PHILLIPS v. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

No. 10470.

185 F.2d 746 (1950)

PHILLIPS v. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION et al.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided November 9, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Randolph Phillips, pro se. Mr. Joseph B. Hyman, Alexandria, Va., of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States, pro hac vice, by special leave of Court, for petitioner.

Mr. Roger S. Foster, General Counsel, Securities & Exchange Commission, Washington, D. C., for respondent.

Mr. John J. Burns, Boston, Mass., of the Bar of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, pro hac vice, by special leave of court, with whom Mr. James K. Polk, New York City, was on the brief, for intervenor The United Corporation. Mr. Richard Joyce Smith, New York City, of the Bar of the Court of Appeals of New York, pro hac vice, by special leave of Court, for intervenor.

Before WILBUR K. MILLER, PRETTYMAN and WASHINGTON, Circuit Judges.


WASHINGTON, Circuit Judge.

The petition before us seeks relief based essentially on the contention that the Securities & Exchange Commission has failed to act with proper diligence and dispatch in bringing about the dissolution of United Corporation, a company registered under the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935. 49 Stat. 803, 15 U.S.C.A. § 79 et seq.

The petitioner, a stockholder of United Corporation, raises this contention in the following...

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