GLOBUS v. LAW RESEARCH SERVICE, INC.

Nos. 583-85, Docket 32766-32768.

418 F.2d 1276 (1969)

Morton GLOBUS et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. LAW RESEARCH SERVICE, INC. and Ellias C. Hoppenfeld, Defendants-Appellants. BLAIR & CO., GRANBERY MARACHE Incorporated, Defendant-Appellant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Paul WIENER, Third-Party Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided September 8, 1969.

Certiorari Denied February 24, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold L. Young, New York City (Cooper, Ostrin, DeVarco & Ackerman, Herman E. Cooper, Philip D. Tobin, New York City, on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Alfred S. Julien, New York City (Julien, Glaser & Blitz, Helen B. Stoller, New York City, on the brief), for defendants-appellants and LRS and Hoppenfeld and third-party defendant-appellee, Wiener.

Douglas M. Parker, New York City (Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander, Goldthwaite H. Dorr, Robert P. Visser, New York City, on the brief), for defendant-appellant and third-party plaintiff-appellant Blair & Co., Granbery Marache Inc.

Before WATERMAN, SMITH and KAUFMAN, Circuit Judges.


Certiorari Denied February 24, 1970. See 90 S.Ct. 913.

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:

This tortuous litigation raises at least two issues of great importance: are punitive damages available in private actions based on § 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, 15 U.S.C. § 77q (a); and, may an underwriter be indemnified by an issuer for liabilities arising out of misstatements in an offering circular of which the underwriter had actual knowledge? We...

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