SOCONY MOBIL OIL CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 12812.

275 F.2d 227 (1960)

In re Grand Jury Proceedings. Application of SOCONY MOBIL OIL COMPANY, Inc., et al., for an Order Directing Return of Impounded Documents, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.

February 24, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leroy Jeffers, Houston, Tex., W. B. Edwards, Pittsburgh, Pa., Joseph A. Roper, South Bend, Ind., Irving C. Klinock, Kansas City, Mo., Milton A. Johnson, South Bend, Ind., Edward F. Howrey, Washington, D. C., James E. Keating, South Bend, Ind., for appellants.

Joseph B. Kennedy, Jr., Washington, D. C., for appellant Socony Mobil Oil Co., Inc.

Roland Obenchain, Jr., South Bend, Ind., for appellant Hudson Oil Co. of Illinois, Inc.

Richard A. Solomon, Anti-Trust Division, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Earl A. Jinkinson, Dept. of Justice, Chicago, Ill., Robert A. Bicks, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Harold E. Baily, Chicago, Ill., Donald L. Hardison, Washington, D. C., Attys, Dept. of Justice, for the United States.

Before DUFFY and CASTLE, Circuit Judges, and GRUBB, District Judge.


DUFFY, Circuit Judge.

A grand jury sitting in the Northern District of Indiana issued thirteen subpoenas duces tecum to Socony Mobil Oil Company, Gulf Oil Corporation, Hudson Oil Company of Illinois, and to ten other oil companies directing them to furnish and deliver to the Grand Jury certain designated papers and documents.

Among the items requested were the certificates of incorporation of the thirteen corporations; documents pertaining to the owned...

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