SECURITIES INDUSTRY ASS'N v. CONNOLLY

No. 89-1022.

883 F.2d 1114 (1989)

SECURITIES INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. Michael J. CONNOLLY, etc., et al., Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided August 31, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas A. Barnico, Asst. Atty. Gen., with whom James M. Shannon, Atty. Gen., and Richard M. Brunell, Asst. Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., were on brief, for defendants, appellants.

Cornish F. Hitchcock and Alan B. Morrison, Washington, D.C., Public Citizen Litigation Group, on brief, for Public Citizen, amicus curiae.

Joseph C. Long, Sp. Counsel, on brief, for North American Securities Administrators Ass'n, Inc., amicus curiae.

Steven W. Hansen with whom Gerald F. Rath, Victor H. Polk, Don E. Gorton III and Bingham, Dana & Gould, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for plaintiffs, appellees.

Marshall E. Hanbury, Gen. Counsel, Chicago, Ill., Kenneth M. Raisler, Gen. Counsel, New York City, and Jay Witkin, Deputy Gen. Counsel, Washington, D.C., on brief, for the Commodity Futures Trading Com'n, amicus curiae.

Before CAMPBELL, Chief Judge, SELYA, Circuit Judge, and CAFFREY, Senior District Judge.


SELYA, Circuit Judge.

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