U.S. v. TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORP.

No. 699, Docket 90-1501.

926 F.2d 227 (1991)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided February 25, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William E. McDaniels (Steven R. Kuney, Kathleen L. Beggs, Williams & Connolly, Washington, D.C., on the brief), for defendant-appellant.

John P. Fonte (James F. Rill, Asst. Atty. Gen., Michael Boudin, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert B. Nicholson, Bernard M. Hollander, James J. Tierney, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., on the brief), for appellee.

Before KAUFMAN, NEWMAN, and McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judges.


JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:

When this case was before us on a prior appeal, we ruled that a criminal contempt fine could not be imposed in an amount greater than $100,000 in the absence of a jury trial. See United States v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., 882 F.2d 656 (2d Cir.1989), cert. denied, ___ U.S. ___, 110 S.Ct. 722, 107 L.Ed.2d 741 (1990). Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation ("Fox") now brings a second...

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