UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff,
ex rel. TAXPAYERS AGAINST FRAUD and Chester L. Walsh, Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Defendant-Appellant.
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued March 11, 1994.
Decided November 30, 1994.
Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing Denied January 18, 1995.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Ann Lugbill, James B. Helmer, Jr., Robert C. Neff, Jr., Helmer, Lugbill, Martins & Neff, Cincinnati, OH, Robert E. Montgomery, Jr. (argued), Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, Washington, DC, John R. Phillips, Lauren K. Saunders, Mary L. Cohen (briefed), Hall & Phillips, Los Angeles, CA, for Taxpayers Against Fraud in No. 92-4283.
Ann Lugbill, James B. Helmer, Jr., Robert C. Neff, Jr., Helmer, Lugbill, Martins & Neff, Cincinnati, OH, Robert E. Montgomery, Jr. (argued), Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, Washington, DC, Paul R. Hoeber, Marron, Reid & Sheehy, San Francisco, CA, for Chester L. Walsh in No. 92-4283.
John D. Luken, John W. Beatty (briefed), Dinsmore & Shohl, Cincinnati, OH, Roger M. Witten (briefed), Andrew N. Vollmer, Simone R.D. Francis, Jane G. Sherburne, Louis R. Cohen (argued), Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, DC, for General Elec. Co. in No. 92-4283.
Michael Davidson (briefed), Morgan J. Frankel (argued), Washington, DC, for amicus curiae U.S. Senate.
James B. Helmer, Jr., Helmer, Lugbill, Martins & Neff, Cincinnati, OH, Robert E. Montgomery, Jr. (argued), Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, Washington, DC, John R. Phillips, Lauren K. Saunders, Mary L. Cohen (briefed), Hall & Phillips, Los Angeles, CA, for Taxpayers Against Fraud in No. 93-3015.
James B. Helmer, Jr., Helmer, Lugbill, Martins & Neff, Cincinnati, OH, John R. Phillips, Lauren K. Saunders, Mary L. Cohen (briefed), Hall & Phillips, Los Angeles, CA, for Chester L. Walsh in No. 93-3015.
John W. Beatty (briefed), Dinsmore & Shohl, Cincinnati, OH, Roger M. Witten (briefed), Louis R. Cohen (argued), Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, DC, for General Elec. Co. in No. 93-3015.
Before: MERRITT, Chief Judge; and NELSON and BOGGS, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.
Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc Denied January 18, 1995.
BOGGS, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which MERRITT, C.J., joined. NELSON, J. (p. 1050), delivered a separate opinion concurring in the judgment and in all but Part II of the court's opinion.
BOGGS, Circuit Judge.
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