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APPEAL OF UNITED STATES SECURITIES & EXCHANGE COM'N

No. 12503.

226 F.2d 501 (1955)

Appeal of the UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION, and William H. Timbers, its General Counsel, from Oral and Written Orders of District Judge Arthur F. Lederle, adjudicating William H. Timbers in Contempt and Committing him to the Custody of the United States Marshal, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

October 19, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George E. Brand, Jr., and George E. Brand, Sr., Detroit, Mich., for plaintiffs, John P. Kinsey, and others.

Samuel D. Slade, Washington, D. C. (Warren E. Burger, Asst. Atty. Gen., Benjamin Forman, William H. Timbers, Alexander Cohen, Securities & Exchange Commission, Washington, D. C., Fred W. Kaess, Detroit, Mich., on the brief), for appellants.

Richard Ford, Detroit, Mich. (Kenneth B. McConnell, Fischer, Sprague, Franklin & Ford, Detroit, Mich., on the brief), for defendant Voting Trustees.

Before MARTIN, McALLISTER and MILLER, Circuit Judges.

MARTIN, Circuit Judge.

In a civil action to which the United States Securities and Exchange Commission was not a party, the Commission's General Counsel, William H. Timbers [now appellant], came to Detroit with the court's approval to serve as attorney — at their request — for two Commission employees who had been threatened with punishment for contempt because of their refusal, as witnesses in the United States District Court for the Eastern District...

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