DRESSER INDUSTRIES, INC. v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 78-1942, 78-2212.

596 F.2d 1231 (1979)

DRESSER INDUSTRIES, INC., a corporation, on its own behalf and on behalf of certain Dresser employees, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied July 30, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Baker & McKenzie, Francis D. Morrissey, Thomas F. Bridgman, Thomas M. Haderlein, Chicago, Ill., George T. Barrow, Houston, Tex., David R. Macdonald, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellants in No. 78-1942.

Baker & McKenzie, Francis D. Morrissey, Thomas F. Bridgman, William J. Linklater, Norman J. Barry, David R. Macdonald, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellants in No. 78-2212.

Richard S. Stolker, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., J. A. Canales, U. S. Atty., Richard Parker, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Houston, Tex., John P. Sweeney, James H. Schropp, Arthur M. Schwartzstein, Paul Gonson, Assoc. Gen. Counsel, SEC, Washington, D. C., for defendant-appellee.

Before COLEMAN, GODBOLD, and INGRAHAM, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied July 30, 1979.

COLEMAN, Circuit Judge.

This case represents some of the efforts of Dresser Industries, Inc., the plaintiff-appellant, to forestall disclosure of the details of certain transactions which are now commonly referred to as "questionable foreign payments". Dresser filed this suit in the Southern District of Texas seeking, inter alia, declaratory and injunctive relief against the Department of Justice...

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