ALLEGAERT v. PEROT

No. 132, Docket 77-7263.

565 F.2d 246 (1977)

Winthrop J. ALLEGAERT, as Trustee of duPont Walston Incorporated, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. H. Ross PEROT, Electronic Data Systems Corporation, duPont, Glore Forgan Incorporated, Morton H. Meyerson, Milledge A. Hart III, PHM & Co. and E. D. Systems Corporation, Defendants-Appellees, and William K. Gayden, Margot Perot, Mervin L. Stauffer, Charleston Investment Company, New York Stock Exchange, Inc., Daniel J. Cullen, William D. Fleming, George T. Thomson, Charles W. Cox, Douglas E. DeTata, John J. Doughty, Allan Blair and D. Tipp Cullen, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided November 7, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Sisk, Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, New York City (George A. Davidson, Karen G. Lind, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.

Peter Gruenberger, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York City (Henry J. Tashman, Irwin H. Warren, New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellees H. Ross Perot, duPont Glore Forgan Inc., Morton H. Meyerson, Milledge A. Hart III, and PHM & Co.

Richard P. Shlakman, Leva, Hawes, Symington, Martin & Oppenheimer, Washington, D. C. (Andrew D. Weissman, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for defendants-appellees Electronic Data Systems Corp. and E. D. Systems Corp.

Before LUMBARD, OAKES and MESKILL, Circuit Judges.


OAKES, Circuit Judge:

This dispute is one more example in the ever mounting number of cases where appellants have sought interlocutory review of a district court order. In this instance, appellant challenges an order denying a motion for disqualification1 under Canon 4 of the Code of Professional Responsibility (Canon 4).2 The attorneys sought to be disqualified previously...

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