UNITED STATES of America, Appellee,
v.
TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORPORATION and Leila J. Goldstein, Defendants-Appellants.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued April 11, 1989.
Decided August 9, 1989.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
William E. McDaniels, Washington, D.C. (Steven R. Kuney, Kathleen L. Beggs, Peter W. Chatfield, Williams & Connolly, Washington, D.C., on the brief), for defendant-appellant Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.
Earl C. Dudley, Jr., Washington, D.C. (Adina N. Amith, Nussbaum, Owen & Webster, Washington, D.C., on the brief), for defendant-appellant Goldstein.
John P. Fonte, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C. (Charles F. Rule, Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert B. Nicholson, Stephen J. Macisaac, Fred E. Haynes, Bernard M. Hollander, Ann Lea Harding, James J. Tierney, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., on the brief), for appellee.
Carole E. Handler, Gia Rae Paladino, Proskauer, Rose, Goetz & Mendelsohn, Los Angeles, Cal.; Walter J. Josiah, Rhoda L. Clary, Motion Picture Ass'n of America, Inc., New York, N.Y., submitted an amicus curiae brief for the Motion Picture Ass'n of America, Inc.
Mark C. Morril, Matthew Dixon, Kay Collyer & Boose, New York City; Arthur Eisenberg, New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York City, submitted an amicus curiae brief for the New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation.
Before NEWMAN, CARDAMONE and WINTER, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:
This appeal presents the constitutional question of whether a corporation is entitled to a jury trial in a prosecution for criminal contempt that results in a substantial fine, in this case, $500,000. This question arises on an appeal by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation ("Fox") and one of its employees, Leila Goldstein, from a judgment of the District Court for the Southern District of New York (Edmund L. Palmieri, Judge) convicting...
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