UNITED STATES of America, Appellant,
v.
George LYNCH and Christopher Moscinski, Defendants-Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued September 10, 1998.
Decided December 14, 1998.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Martin J. Siegel, Assistant United States Attorney, New York, N.Y. (Mary Jo White, United States Attorney, Southern District of New York; James L. Cott, Ira M. Feinberg, Assistant United States Attorneys, on the brief), for Appellant.
G. Robert Blakey, Notre Dame Law School, Notre Dame, IN (A. Lawrence Washburn, Jr., New York, New York, on the brief; John Broderick, Syosset, NY, Gabriel P. Kralik, Fish & Richardson P.C., New York, NY, of counsel), for Defendants-Appellees.
(William J. Hoffman and Lawrence R. Miller, Arnold & Porter, New York, NY, on the brief), for amici curiae United States Representatives Charles E. Schumer, Howard L. Berman, Eliot L. Engel, Robert Filner, Barney Frank, Maurice Hinchey, Nita M. Lowey, Constance A. Morella, Louise M. Slaughter and Lynn C. Woolsey; United States Senator Ron Wyden; James Brennan, Joan K. Christensen, Barbara M. Clark, Samuel Coleman, Gloria Davis, Jeffrey Dinowitz, Daniel L. Feldman, Sandra Galef, David F. Gantt, Deborah Glick, Richard N. Gottfried, Roger L. Green, Paul E. Harenberg, Audrey Hochberg, Susan V. John, Martin A. Luster, Nettie Mayersohn, William Scarborough, Edward C. Sullivan, Robert K. Sweeney, and Albert Vann, Members of the New York State Assembly; and New York State Senators Roy M. Goodman and Vincent L. Leibell.
(Bruce E. Yannett and Neil S. Binder, Debevoise & Plimpton, New York, NY; Yolanda S. Wu and Martha F. Davis, NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, New York, NY; Priscilla J. Smith and Kathryn Kolbert, Center for Reproductive Law & Policy, New York, NY, on the brief), for amici curiae NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, Anti-Defamation League, Broome County Pro-Choice Coalition, Buffalo GYN Womenservices, Center for Constitutional Rights, Long Island Pro-Choice Coalition, New York State AAUW, New York County Chapter of American Academy of Family Physicians, People for the American Way, Planned Parenthood of New York City, Planned Parenthood of Rochester and the Genesee Valley, Planned Parenthood of Suffolk County, Inc., Pro-Choice Network of Western New York, and Republican Pro-Choice Alliance of New York.
(Labe M. Richman, Donna Lieberman, and Yueh-ru Chu, New York, NY, on the brief), for amici curiae New York Civil Liberties Union, the American Jewish Congress, Lambda, the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, and the Westchester Coalition for Legal Abortion, Inc.
Before: FEINBERG, JACOBS, and SACK, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
Judge SACK concurs in the opinion of the Court, and also files a separate opinion.
Judge FEINBERG dissents in a separate opinion.
JACOBS, Circuit Judge:
The United States appeals from the acquittal following a bench trial in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Sprizzo, J.) of persons charged with criminal contempt under 18 U.S.C. § 401(3) for allegedly violating a permanent injunction that prohibited...
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