SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION v. STEWART

Nos. 759, 760, Docket 73-1250, 73-1251.

476 F.2d 755 (1973)

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION, Petitioner, v. Charles E. STEWART, Jr., United States District Judge, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 16, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Ferber, Solicitor, SEC, Washington, D. C. (Richard E. Nathan, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Richard L. Jaeger, Spec. Counsel, and William H. Kuehnle, Atty., SEC, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for petitioner.

Arthur L. Liman, New York City (Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, Jack C. Auspitz, New York City, Leonard H. Becker, Washington, D. C., Warren M. Green, New York City, on the brief), for respondent Vesco.

John S. Martin, Jr., New York City (Martin & Obermaier, New York City, on the brief) for respondent Straub.

Martin Mensch, New York City (Dornbush Mensch, Mandelstam & Schwartz, New York City, Frederic J. Gruder, Yonkers, N. Y., on the brief), for respondents Clay and Beatty.

Neal M. Goldman, New York City (Squadron, Gartenberg, Ellenoff & Plesent, Theodore Ellenoff, New York City on the brief), for respondent Graze.

James P. O'Neill, New York City, (Palmer & Serles, New York City, Raichle, Banning, Weiss & Halpern, Frank G. Raichle, Buffalo, N. Y., on the brief), for defendant Meissner.

Before FEINBERG, MULLIGAN and TIMBERS, Circuit Judges.


FEINBERG, Circuit Judge:

The Securities and Exchange Commission petitions this court for a writ of mandamus directing Charles E. Stewart, Jr., judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, to vacate an order preventing the Commission from obtaining pre-trial discovery of Robert L. Vesco, Gilbert R. J. Straub, Frank G. Beatty, Richard E. Clay, Stanley Graze and Laurence B. Richardson, Jr., unless the Government grants them immunity...

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