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IN RE GUTHRIE

No. 83-1653.

733 F.2d 634 (1984)

In re Benjamin J. GUTHRIE, Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Petitioner. In the Matter of George H. BENFORD, Plaintiff, v. AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANIES, INC., a New York Corporation; Mrs. Isaac (Betty) Hamburger; Miss Kathleen T. Gardner; Mrs. Lillian M. Teitelbaum; David L. Holton; Margaret Osmer, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 8, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley M. Brand, General Counsel to the Clerk, Steven R. Ross, Deputy Counsel to the Clerk, Michael L. Murray, Asst. Counsel to the Clerk, Washington, D.C., (Eugene Gressman, Chapel Hill, N.C., University of N.C., School of Law on brief), for appellant.

Dean E. Sharp; George B. Driesen, Washington, D.C. (Wilson K. Barnes, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellee.

Before WINTER, Chief Judge, RUSSELL and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judges.

DONALD RUSSELL, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal the Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, Benjamin J. Guthrie, challenges the validity of an adjudication of civil contempt against him for refusal to comply with a subpoena duces tecum and order issued by the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, requiring the Clerk to permit examination of documentary records of the House by a civil litigant, appellee George H. Benford. For...

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