FREMONT ENERGY CORP. v. SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCER

No. 81-4567.

688 F.2d 1285 (1982)

FREMONT ENERGY CORPORATION, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. The SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCER, the Hearst Corporation, et al., Defendants, John E. Moss, Chairman, Movant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided September 28, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven R. Ross, Washington, D.C., for movant-appellant.

James R. Prochnow, Constantine & Prochnow, P.C., Englewood, Colo., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before MERRILL and HUG, Circuit Judges, and BROWN, District Judge.


MERRILL, Circuit Judge:

John E. Moss appeals from an order of the district court for the Eastern District of California adjudging him in contempt of court for failure adequately to respond to the directions of a subpoena duces tecum.

Moss is a former member of Congress and the former chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. In December 1978, that subcommittee issued a report on uranium...

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