United States v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and Leila J. Goldstein

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 them, after a two-day bench trial, of criminal contempt for violating a 1951 consent decree. 700 F.Supp. 1242. The decree…