IN RE PETROLEUM PRODUCTS ANTITRUST LITIGATION

No. 1139, Docket 82-7247.

680 F.2d 5 (1982)

In re Coordinated Pretrial Proceedings in PETROLEUM PRODUCTS ANTITRUST LITIGATION. Appeal of McGRAW-HILL, INC., Witness-Appellant, v. The STATES OF ARIZONA, CALIFORNIA, FLORIDA, OREGON AND WASHINGTON, Plaintiffs-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 18, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William F. Sondericker, New York City (Jeffery H. Sheetz, Olwine, Connelly, Chase, O'Donnell & Weyher, Robert N. Landes, Gen. Counsel, Barbara E. Schlain and Kenneth M. Vittor, Asst. Gen. Counsel, New York City, of counsel), for witness-appellant McGraw-Hill, Inc.

Stephen L. Dunne, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Del Mar, Cal. (Jim Smith, Bill L. Bryant, Jr., Jerome W. Hoffman, David G. Guest, Tallahassee, Fla., of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees The States of Ariz., Cal., Fla., Or. and Wash.

Jack C. Landau, Judy D. Lynch, Washington, D. C., for amicus curiae The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

Robert A. Saltzstein, Stephen M. Feldman, Wyatt, Saltzstein, Lipsen & Hamberger, Washington, D. C., for amicus curiae American Business Press, Inc.

Stephen H. Gross, Duncan Noble Darrow, Victor A. Kovner, Harriette K. Dorsen, O'Sullivan, Wolfe, Karabell & Graev, Lankenau, Kovner & Bickford, New York City, for amicus curiae Magazine Publishers Association, Inc.

Before FRIENDLY, KAUFMAN and PIERCE, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

This is an appeal from Judge William P. Gray's order1 holding McGraw-Hill, Inc. in civil contempt for refusing to produce a document in the possession of Ernest McClelland, an employee of McGraw-Hill, containing certain names of confidential sources. The document was requested pursuant to a subpoena duces tecum served on McGraw-Hill as a non-party witness by the States of Arizona, California, Florida, Oregon and Washington...

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