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SERR v. SULLIVAN

Nos. 16908-16914.

390 F.2d 619 (1968)

Harold A. SERR, Director Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division Internal Revenue Service, Appellant, v. Juleus J. SULLIVAN, Jr., Hiram Walker Incorporated, (Respondent-Intervenor in D. C.). Harold A. SERR, Director Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division Internal Revenue Service, Appellant, v. Francis DEIMEYER, Hiram Walker Incorporated, (Respondent-Intervenor in D. C.). Harold A. SERR, Director Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division Internal Revenue Service, Appellant, v. James F. CURRAN, Hiram Walker Incorporated, (Respondent-Intervenor in D. C.). Harold A. SERR, Director Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division Internal Revenue Service, Appellant, v. Joseph LETIZIA, Hiram Walker Incorporated, (Respondent-Intervenor in D. C.). Harold A. SERR, Director Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division Internal Revenue Service, Appellant, v. James J. WHEATLEY, Jr., Hiram Walker Incorporated, (Respondent-Intervenor in D. C.). Harold A. SERR, Director Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division Internal Revenue Service, Appellant, v. Nicholas DeWILDE, Hiram Walker Incorporated, (Respondent-Intervenor in D. C.). Harold A. SERR, Director Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division Internal Revenue Service, Appellant, v. Gustav MORTENSEN, Hiram Walker Incorporated, (Respondent-Intervenor in D. C.).

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided March 1, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip Wilens, Head, Statutory Enforcement Unit, Criminal Division, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Drew J. T. O'Keefe, U. S. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., for appellant. Charles Ruff, Robert Gary, Attys., Dept. of Justice, John W. Coggins, Director, Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Legal Division, Office of Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

James H. McGlothlin, Washington, D. C.

Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz, Philadelphia, Pa., Richard A. Brady, William A. Dobrovir, Covington & Burling, Washington, D. C., Philip H. Strubing, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellee Hiram Walker Incorporated.

H. Francis DeLone, Richard G. Schneider, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellee-witnesses: Sullivan, Deimeyer, Curran, Letizia, Wheatley, DeWilde.

Russell E. Ellis, Norristown, Pa., for appellee-witness: Mortensen.

Before KALODNER, FREEDMAN and VAN DUSEN, Circuit Judges.

OPINION OF THE COURT

PER CURIAM.

Is the Director of the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division, Internal Revenue Service, empowered by the Federal Alcohol Administration Act, 27 U.S.C.A. § 201 et seq., to conduct a special investigation of a permittee of the Division with the power to compel witnesses to appear and testify?

The District Court answered the question in the negative in the instant case in denying the Director's petitions for enforcement...

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